Over the last few weeks colleagues in Autodesk Research have been building the foundations for a space analysis package that can be used for generative design workflows in Dynamo. We’d love to hear from you if you’re interested in taking it for a spin.
But first, a little background…
We’ve known we’ve needed to get better performance when analysing 2D and 3D spaces since embarking on the original layout of the new MaRS office in Toronto as part of Project Discover: the approach we had worked well – as I think is clear from the results of the project – but it wasn’t in a state that could usefully be shared externally.
For Project Discover we used 2D space analysis to calculate various metrics that scored the individual layouts:
- Adjacency
- Buzz
- Productivity
- Views to outside
- Daylight
The first two are largely about calculating paths between various locations, while the last three are implemented by ray-casting. These approaches are definitely connected, though: you need to…