Autodesk Forma
by AutodeskAutodesk Forma (formerly Spacemaker) is a web-based platform that uses AI to help architects, urban planners and developers make better decisions early in the design process.
Generative design is about using computer software to generate a design that meets the requirements. You specify your goals and constraints, then you allow the algorithm to find a solution; not just one solution but many – even thousands – potential solutions, all of which meet specified criteria. And from those design options, you can pick the one optimal design that delivers the most important criteria.
Generative design is mainly focusing on manufacturing and AEC industries. Traditionally, when an architect or engineer sits down to a design problem, he formulates a solution in his mind and then transcribes that idea into points and lines and surfaces in a CAD tool. With generative design, designers co-create with the technology, choosing the constraints and setting the goals. The software simply determines the most optimized way of achieving those goals. Benefits are reductions in costs, development time, material consumption… Also traditional manufacturing methods require you to make massive numbers of something just in order to be profitable. But with generative design, combined with the emergence of new forms of manufacturing like 3D printing, you can do a batch run of just one.
Generative design workflow looks like this:
Autodesk Forma (formerly Spacemaker) is a web-based platform that uses AI to help architects, urban planners and developers make better decisions early in the design process.
Hypar is a web-based platform for the whole industry to easily access generative design in the cloud and generate better building designs.