Overview

Design decisions are rarely simple -- they typically involve evaluating many options and considering the tradeoffs between the advantages offered by each option.

In this assignment, you’ll create a simple Dynamo or Grasshopper model of a design decision that you’d like to explore.

You’ll start by mapping out the logic of your simple model. It should provide:

• Inputs for the design variables that people who use your model can choose between.
• Model logic (typically formulas and calculations) that relates these inputs to a series of outputs.
• Outputs that report key measures of the design that can be used to evaluate the strengths of the alternatives being considered.

Then, you’ll use the Generative Design tool in Revit and Dynamo (or the Galapagos or Octopus packages in Grasshopper) to:

• Generate a variety of options to be evaluated.
• Consider the tradeoffs between the strengths offered by each alternative.