Le Corbusier’s projects instantiating his concept for the Museum of Unlimited Extension share a common structure of visibility, revealing and obscuring views of the horizon. A diagram of this structure, called the occlusion map, can generate floor plans consistent with the structure of visibility in the Museum of Unlimited Extension. This paper highlights capabilities of digital tools for revealing latent attributes of existing buildings. By generating a population of floor plans, we hope to show an untapped possibility of generative design strategies – beyond the possibility of generating novel architectural form, we discuss the possibility of “designerly analysis” aimed at disclosing latent architectural attributes of existing form.

勒·柯布西耶 (Le Corbusier) 的项目实例化了他对无限延伸博物馆的概念，这些项目共享一个共同的可见性结构，即地平线的显露和模糊视图。这种结构的图表，称为遮挡图，可以生成与无限延伸博物馆中可见结构一致的平面图。本文重点介绍了数字工具揭示现有建筑物潜在属性的能力。通过生成大量平面图，我们希望展示生成设计策略尚未开发的可能性——除了生成新颖的建筑形式的可能性之外，我们还讨论了旨在揭示现有形式的潜在建筑属性的“设计师分析”的可能性。