Handling Interfaces for the Procedural Generation of Complete Buildings

This paper presents the challenge of interface handling for different building constituents in the context of PGB (Procedural Generation of Buildings). Alongside this challenge, the current state of research about interfaces and their handling in current implementations of (almost) complete buildings is presented. Afterwards, different means of integration are discussed including their expected impacts, implementation efforts, and control mechanisms. Handling the integration challenge for PGB can be understood as a meta challenge with several design choices, making several decisions for controlling complexity both computationally and regarding the implementation effort. One set of such decisions is presented, optimised to cover many common cases of buildings while utilising currently existing generators and their limited compatibility to procedurally generate complete buildings with manageable efforts.