Facade automations generate a pattern across a whole building in seconds.
◦ What does the automation know, and what does it not know?
◦ Where did the generated pattern need overriding, and why?
◦ If the automation produces something that analyses well but looks wrong, which wins?
What drives a project team's decision about floor to floor height?
◦ From a developer's perspective?
◦ From a designer's perspective?
◦ From an engineer's perspective?
◦ From a builder's perspective?
Last week we chose a massing option based on site evidence. This week you had to fit a program inside it.
◦ Where did the program and the massing disagree, and which one gave way?
◦ What would have had to be true for you to change the massing instead of the program?
◦ Which of this week's program decisions will the structural engineer and the mechanical engineer assume you got right?
Total carbon can now be estimated before materials are specified.
◦ How much confidence should a team place in that number at this stage?
◦ Which decision made this week has the largest effect on it?
◦ How would you present it to a client without overstating its precision?
At some point a conceptual model has to stop being conceptual.
◦ How do you know when a proposal is resolved enough to move into Revit?
◦ What is the cost of moving too early? Of moving too late?
◦ Which parts of your Forma model do you expect to survive the handoff?