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?
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?