Computational Design

Routing with graphs

A critical aspect of architectural design is understanding the way people move through and experience a space. Because such…

Behavioral systems

This article describes how we can use behavioral algorithms and agent-based models to further abstract the relationship…

View analysis with Isovist

The methods of structural and environmental analysis described in the previous two sections aim to quantify a…

Solar analysis in Grasshopper

A large portion of a building’s performance has to do with how it behaves in relation to its environment…

Working with geometry in Python

The core Python language is very limited in functionality, being restricted to the basic algebra, flow…

Using Python in Grasshopper

In the previous section we saw how Grasshopper, despite being a great platform for algorithmic design, can…

Introduction to computational design

Now that we have covered some of the theoretical foundations of generative design, we will…

Evolving design

This article will describe the basics of the Genetic Algorithm (GA), which is one of the oldest and most popular metaheuristic algorithms for design optimization.

The history of the Genetic Algorithm begins (as most modern ideas in computer science) with Alan Turing’s famous…