I’ve talked before about Project Discover: the project where The Living used generative design to explore layout options for the new Autodesk office in the MaRS district of Toronto. As the project was run before Project Refinery was available – and so didn’t make use of a Refinery-compatible graph – we’ve been working on a new iteration of the tool that can be used with the Autodesk GD toolset for AEC workflows (i.e. Dynamo + Refinery). Internally we’re affectionately referring to this project as Project Rediscover.
Things are moving along well: thanks largely to the Space Analysis package (and yes, Project Rediscover was a major driver for us to create that) we’ve been able to build a graph that has the main metrics found in the original project. We’re using the package’s pathfinding capability to help calculate Adjacency, Buzz and Visual Distraction (which detracts from Productivity), while we’re using visibility to help calculate Views to Outside. The hard…