Pushing the Envelope: Stretching the Limits of Generative Design

Abstract

Design is characterized by change. Nowadays, addressing change in design requires enormous efforts, particularly, when the designer is exploring different solutions or when it is necessary to adapt the design to evolving constraints. This paper discusses the potential of Generative Design to help designers handling change, namely in the generation of several alternative design solutions. We propose a programming--based approach that, although requiring an initial investment, dramatically reduces the efforts of design modification. We evaluate the approach in a case study and we show that it is cost--effective in the development of an architectural design.

Keeping up with the Code - Communicating the Decision Making History of Architectural Scripts

“…Despite many BIM components and plugins already being able to compose appealing renders and/or to benefit from VR [1][2][3], changes to the building form suggested by the client can still be very time-consuming to apply. This happens because traditional modeling approaches rely on the manual insertion of geometric elements, turning minor changes in large-scale models into lengthy and error-prone editing processes (Leitão et al 2013).…”