Designers have seen immense and exciting technological shifts in the field of architecture over the past few decades.
GWWO was an early adopter of Revit, and as a firm we have never been complacent with technology. We are constantly researching and developing software and techniques that will amplify our design process and continue to move us forward. One of the most promising prospects within the field and our firm is computational design, and beyond to generative design, using the tools within Revit/Dynamo and Rhinoceros/Grasshopper.
If unfamiliar, computational design and generative design are centered around the idea that the computer we use to manifest designs is more than just a digitized version of the utensils we used to draft with. Computers can expedite aspects of the design process and in some instances, supplement a designer’s ideas. Buildings have become increasingly complex over the course of architectural history, and it has become almost imperative that we use computation as a digital aide to track, coordinate, generate, and analyze our ideas and designs. Here at GWWO, we have been utilizing computational design in some capacity for over a decade now, using tools to help generate tables and schedules to track and coordinate information. But as the technology within our office grows and computers become more powerful, we can analyze much more. Two of the most important things that we have begun analyzing in increasing depth are constructability and energy.
