Understand the basics of Generative DesignCreate a basic parametric Dynamo GraphInvestigate the optimisation parameters for the illustrated design option.Create parametric dependencies to enable optimisationUsing Refinery to generate options.Understand the Refinery interfaceCreate optimised design optionsUsing Refinery filtering tools, pick the optimum design optionreiterate process to generate multiple plausible options for the same design.

One of the challenges facing the industry is that optimization is usually offered only within a domain-specific software engine. One solution is to use general-purpose design environments such as Dynamo, coupled with optimization engines such as Project Refinery to enable multidomain, multiobjective optimization. This class will introduce Topologic, a new and free software kit (https://topologic.app). Topologic offers the ability to think spatially, topologically, and conceptually about a design project. Topologic is also tightly coupled with EnergyPlus for energy analysis within Dynamo and with Project Refinery. Thus, Topologic offers the possibility of multidomain, multiobjective optimization where the involved domains go beyond traditional building performance. This class will introduce the related concepts, illustrate the powerful features of the software through example workflows, and offer you hands-on experience to experiment with customized workflows.

Learn how to use parametric models to assist your site planning and design process. This instructional demo is designed to show the audience how to use Dynamo’s geometry tools to model site components, such as property lines, parking spots, driving lanes, building footprints, and more. We’ll define relationships between components and we’ll integrate them into one parametric model, bringing to life a basic site-layout generator. Whether you’re looking to improve your design process, think algorithmic, or learn and create or improve your own tool, this session will serve as a foundation to start using parametric models as your design assistant. Also, get ready to stop manually quantifying parking spaces or building areas. Finally, we’ll launch Project Refinery to optimize output values that reflect on design, such as parking-space count, building area, or average walking distance from parking space to building.

Generative design is a framework for combining digital computation and human creativity to achieve results that would not otherwise be possible. It involves the integration of a rule-based geometric system, a series of measurable goals, and a system for automatically generating, evaluating, and evolving a very large number of design options. This approach offers many benefits for designing buildings and cities–including managing complexity, optimising for specific criteria, incorporating a large amount of input from past projects and current requests, navigating trade-offs based on real data, structuring discussion among stakeholders about design features and project objectives, offering transparency about project assumptions, and offering a “live model” for post-occupancy adaptation. The framework consists of 3 main components: 1) generate a wide design space of possible solutions through a bespoke geometry system; 2) evaluate each solution through measurable goals; 3) evolve generations of designs through evolutionary computation. Generative design is a flexible and scalable framework. It can be applied to a wide range of design problems and scales: from industrial components all the way to buildings and cities. In this session, we'll explore how generative design is being applied by Autodesk Research's The Living at a variety of scales, and how the Autodesk tools used by The Living (Dynamo and Refinery) can be used by customers to implement their own generative design workflows.

Challenging the deconstruction and decontamination of a former industrial site: the refinery of Dunkerque in France. From a huge data sets of 30 000 old plans and a dynamic scan of a 90Ha area, the low LOD Revit models were made manually but also automatically using IA with image recognition. The representations of the contamination and lithology is modelled with voxels and informed using interpolation scripts with Dynamo directly from georeferenced boreholes stored in excel datasheets. The aim of this BIM model is to create scenariis of depollution depending of what is located underground : pipes, concrete and pollutants.

While designing a stadium, the most important thing is to make sure that every one of the seats offers a good, unobstructed view of the whole field. Architects must make sure that they optimize the view and distance from the field while also fitting in the maximum number of seats. This class will describe how to develop a Dynamo script to automate the seating bowl based on your standards, and then show how to use Project Refinery to optimize the arrangement. Further, the class will demonstrate how to export the seating bowl to Revit software, and the data to a data visualization platform like Microsoft Power BI, to visualize your design.

The evolution of BIM tools and processes combining Generative Design and Automation offers new possibilities to the architects and engineers working on complex buildings and its vital interiors, in this case a hospital and its pharmacy. AP-HP Group, representing 39 hospitals in Paris, collaborates with ENGIE AXIMA BIM Factory to re-design the pharmacy and the flows inside it. In this class you will see how we have utilized Dynamo, Refinery and coding. We will demonstrate how algorithms allow us to carry out parametric studies on the «generative space plan» and optimize «automatic generation of a 3D BIM model». We will show how we have used macro and micro generation to evaluate the different options for flow optimization of people and goods present in the pharmacy and how to make qualitative and logistic analysis. The result is a better architectural configuration of the Hospital pharmacy and an improved working environment.

Converging technologies will soon disrupt the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry as new automated workflows emerge. Generative design is the pinnacle of these new workflows. Once a problem is thoroughly and adequately defined, all possible design variations can be produced, explored, scored, and optimized. This class will show that generative design can be used for MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) design engineering. We’ll use Revit software and Dynamo 2.0 to define a specific problem that will then be used to explore a range of design options for ceiling plans and duct layouts. We’ll then rank the design variations to explore cost and energy consumption using Project Refinery. Going through this exercise will show how, with a thoroughly defined problem, we can use data science to explore a more extensive array of design options to ultimately make better design choices, saving both time and money, and letting the engineer focus on more critical tasks.

Much of the early work around generative design at Autodesk was focused on manufactured products. Increasingly, though, it is being applied to design problems in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC). Autodesk Research—mainly through its New York-based architectural studio, The Living—is exploring how one can use generative design to solve a variety of problems in the AEC space. Recent examples include Project Discover, where survey data from Autodesk's Toronto-based employees was used to help choose the layout for our new office in the MaRS Discovery District. Generative design was also used in the design of the Autodesk University 2017 exhibit hall. During this session we'll take a look at the tools available from Autodesk to apply generative design in the AEC industry. And we'll show how to get started with generative design by driving Dynamo with Refinery, Autodesk's new optimization engine.

Increase your Dynamo knowledge in this full day workshop which focuses on practical end to end workflows. In the first session of the workshop, you will learn how to author and run several BIM Automation workflows. In the next 3 sessions, you will extend your growing knowledge into generative design workflows where you can learn how to do data-driven design exploration using Dynamo for Revit and Project Refinery. This workshop requires intermediate experience using Dynamo and Revit. We will not be covering entry level Dynamo. If you are a beginner or have never used Dynamo before consider attending the Dynamo Beginner session held during the main AU conference or invest in beginner training ahead of time. Participants will be paired at provided computers (1 computer for 2 participants). Includes the Tuesday AU General Session. Don’t forget to add the AU Full Conference Pass and sign up for the Wednesday evening DynaLightning talks and party.

Increase your Dynamo knowledge in this full day workshop which focuses on practical end to end workflows. In the first session of the workshop, you will learn how to author and run several BIM Automation workflows. In the next 3 sessions, you will extend your growing knowledge into generative design workflows where you can learn how to do data-driven design exploration using Dynamo for Revit and Project Refinery. This workshop requires intermediate experience using Dynamo and Revit. We will not be covering entry level Dynamo. If you are a beginner or have never used Dynamo before consider attending the Dynamo Beginner session held during the main AU conference or invest in beginner training ahead of time. Participants will be paired at provided computers (1 computer for 2 participants). Includes the Tuesday AU General Session. Don’t forget to add the AU Full Conference Pass and sign up for the Wednesday evening DynaLightning talks and party.

Increase your Dynamo knowledge in this full day workshop which focuses on practical end to end workflows. In the first session of the workshop, you will learn how to author and run several BIM Automation workflows. In the next 3 sessions, you will extend your growing knowledge into generative design workflows where you can learn how to do data-driven design exploration using Dynamo for Revit and Project Refinery. This workshop requires intermediate experience using Dynamo and Revit. We will not be covering entry level Dynamo. If you are a beginner or have never used Dynamo before consider attending the Dynamo Beginner session held during the main AU conference or invest in beginner training ahead of time. Participants will be paired at provided computers (1 computer for 2 participants). Includes the Tuesday AU General Session. Don’t forget to add the AU Full Conference Pass and sign up for the Wednesday evening DynaLightning talks and party.

Increase your Dynamo knowledge in this full day workshop which focuses on practical end to end workflows. In the first session of the workshop, you will learn how to author and run several BIM Automation workflows. In the next 3 sessions, you will extend your growing knowledge into generative design workflows where you can learn how to do data-driven design exploration using Dynamo for Revit and Project Refinery. This workshop requires intermediate experience using Dynamo and Revit. We will not be covering entry level Dynamo. If you are a beginner or have never used Dynamo before consider attending the Dynamo Beginner session held during the main AU conference or invest in beginner training ahead of time. Participants will be paired at provided computers (1 computer for 2 participants). Includes the Tuesday AU General Session. Don’t forget to add the AU Full Conference Pass and sign up for the Wednesday evening DynaLightning talks and party.

Unlike generative design for manufacturing, generative design for architecture requires the incorporation of the user’s unique design intents and ideas into the generative model. As most of our work shows—from the Autodesk office at MaRS to the Autodesk University exhibit hall layout, and from urban developments in the Netherlands to housing complexes in Japan—each project’s output looks different because each geometric system has been developed as a combination of the designer’s intent and reusable geometric tools. This session will show how to approach design problems through the generative design framework (problem formulation) with a focus on how to incorporate design intents in the form of geometric systems (model parameterization). Through Dynamo and Refinery, we’ll take a look at and customize a variety of custom geometric tools and test them in real-world case studies: from subdivision logic for office and urban neighborhoods to automated massing strategies and building siting algorithms.

Project Discover was the original project that launched Autodesk's work around Generative Design for AEC, leading to the creation of Project Refinery, an optimization engine for Dynamo. It involved the generative design of Autodesk's new office in the MaRS district of Toronto, a showcase for using Generative Design for architectural layout. While this project pre-dated the latest Autodesk tools in this space, Autodesk Research embarked on Project Rediscover to go back and retrofit the original approach to work with Dynamo and Refinery. This session takes a close look at the Project Rediscover graph - which is now publicly available for anyone to load inside Dynamo - and how people might use similar techniques to implement their own Generative Design workflows.

In the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, we are challenged to consider many design options, to find the fittest solution in the shortest time, and to be leaders in economic and sustainable designs. During this presentation, you’ll learn about how computational design techniques can help you improve your design process for buildings. In this class, you’ll discover how our products generate better outcomes for designs using computational and generative design techniques. You’ll get an overview of how ‘traditional" design improves with design automation, computational modeling, and generative design methods with Dynamo and Refinery. All of this will be taught using examples from the architectural, urban planning, and structural industry.

Parsons explores the advantages of generative design and optimization tools (such as Dynamo & Refinery) in the scope of evaluating and altering the form, orientation and Gross Floor Area (GFA) of residential buildings in existing master plans, using Reem Island Sector 4 as a case study. A superblock is selected from the original design and studied in an attempt to deliver a proof of concept for optimized design oriented solutions, efficiently developed and scientifically driven to meet our client’s needs.

The needãand the abilityãto innovate is greater than ever. New ways of working are needed to create our evolving society. Every system you design, from the electrical grid that lights and heats our homes, to water system that supports life, to the railroads on which we travel, to the refineries that provide the gasoline for our carsãunderwrites a US$53 trillion demand for new or replacement infrastructure. Hear about the future of how infrastructure will be made, and the trends in technology that will radically transform the way you, as industry professionals, plan, design, deliver, and operate tomorrowês infrastructures by moving infrastructure delivery into a new era.