DESIGN OPTIMISATION / WORKSHOP LAYOUT

Design Funnel.

Generate hundreds of different school workshop layouts, reject unsafe arrangements, score the workable candidates, then justify your selection. This is a constraint-solving teaching model, not a certified workshop safety design.

12 × 8 GRID / 1 GRID = 1 M

02 / Inspect winning layout

Weighted design score—

Travel distance—

Teacher visibility—

Rules passed—

03 / Compare candidate layouts

Decision record

Why did you select this design? Discuss material handling, movement, visibility and safe access. Score is a teaching heuristic, not a measured travel simulation.

Method

Generate: seeded random layouts. Filter: remove designs breaking geometric constraints. Judge: rank remaining plans using Manhattan travel distance, workstation dispersion and teacher visibility. Select: compare twelve non-identical shortlisted candidates.