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Can you tell us more about the innovation that computational design brings to the architecture industry and why you decided to champion it?
Computational design enables us to improve project outcomes relating to the performance of projects. A digital model provides us with the means to test multiple scenarios through simulation, offering the ability to arrive at more optimal solutions across multiple criteria.
As a way of thinking, computational design allows us to utilize processes outside the norm – ones that involve algorithmic design, performance optimization, and automated documentation using a variety of programming languages. By leveraging emerging technologies and methodologies, it enables us to elevate modes of architectural design and production through simulation and analysis, digital fabrication, and visualization with the integration of VR and AR technologies.
Can you further explain how computational design manages to fill gaps in the region’s current architecture landscape? How does it differ from a more straightforward approach?
As a region, the design approach practiced by many design studios have gone beyond the days of manual sketching, with most practices using digital software for the design process. However, they are still fairly traditional as the digital modelling is a direct visual translation of what the designer has in mind.
The new methods of computational design opens up the possibilities of discovering unexpected novel designs through a generative manner, and navigate trade-offs between high-performing designs, their constraints, and parameters. This contrasts with the traditional manner, where form generation and co-design is by humans, then subsequently translated to computer. Such methodology introduces new ways to think, make, and produce architecture, streamlining workflow – allowing us to iterate rigorously and increase collaboration efforts between designers and clients, while unlocking the creative power of artificial intelligence for architects and engineers.
One example is the use of simulations to generate and analyze designs through a mathematical model that re-creates conditions in a virtual environment. There are many types of simulations we work on, such as occupancy, environmental, structural, and energy simulations. These techniques enable us to evaluate building performance prior to construction, which creates much more sustainable and efficient solutions.
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