Block Layout of Departments with Different Areas on the Basis of Interaction Diagram.

In this study we propose a heuristic method for layout planning of departments with different areas, in the case where some shapes and directions of departments are not changeable. The proposed method is based on the interaction diagram which shows adjacent relationships between departments. Through numerical examples, steps of the algorithm are shows and the effectiveness of the solution for the problem that has unchangeable departments under twenty percentage of all departments is examined.