Rhino is widely used by architects for early-stage massing and visualization, but environmental analysis remains a complex challenge for many users. That's where Forma comes in, providing detailed environmental analyses without requiring extensive technical expertise. In a live demonstration of the new Rhino-Forma plugin, we'll show you how to easily move geometry between the two programs, share best practices for structuring data, how to incorporate Grasshopper, and other tips and tricks. Learn how early environmental feedback can free up more time for creativity and reduce the C02 emissions of your design by up to 34%, and see how you can scale those benefits across your projects and organization.

This course will present a series of "how to" and "how come" case studies on using Forma to expand contextual understanding of architectural design. Where Revit excels at designing with the building envelop in, Forma excels at connecting building design to a broader context. Specifically, this is where working with Forma opens a new mode of architectural exploration with an emphasis on outcome-based design thinking. Forma allows the construction and analysis of a series of complex site-based issues: topography and existing conditions, environmental factors, infrastructure, and geographic data (GIS). This is then combined with multiple design proposals to study impact on energy, accessibility and circulation, embodied carbon, and the visceral connection between the building and site that can only be resolved through iterative, simulated explorations.

In the rapidly evolving field of airport architecture, integrating advanced design tools is crucial for optimizing performance and Sustainable Design. This presentation explores how Autodesk Forma and its extensions can be leveraged to enhance airport building design. Forma’s AI capabilities offer unparalleled design optimization for Sustainable Design from the earliest stages in the design process, and by utilizing powerful extensions to the Forma platform, it can provide real-time analysis of the envelope performance and the implications of substantial glazing systems and shading. This enables designers to optimize rapidly and allows for quick prototyping and feedback. Attendees will learn how these workflows can empower designers to integrate energy performance into their workflows, and gain insights into the latest tools to unlock new possibilities for achieving Sustainable Design goals in building design.

Due to our unique involvement in the Forma pilot program we would like to share our experience with the AECO community. The Forma-to-Revit-and-back-to-Forma workflow (via Forma Plugin) is a powerful tool for architects and designers seeking to streamline their design process. Forma provides an intuitive platform for creating complex geometries and analysis while Revit's advanced BIM tools enable designers to create detailed building models. The ability to seamlessly transfer between the two programs allows for easy collaboration and communication between team members, resulting in a more efficient and effective design process. This workflow is particularly useful for architects and designers looking to create complex designs in a fraction of the time it would take using traditional methods. By integrating the strengths of Forma and Revit, designers can create more accurate, energy efficient and detailed models, which can be used for construction and documentation purposes.

Early stage design has arguably the biggest impact on project cost. By nature, these decisions are based on scarce information, which results in tons of repetitive work and a massive waste of resources. Historically, both Forma and TestFit saw an opportunity to reinvent early stage planning to create better cities. While tackling different sides of the problem based on their respective markets, both companies focused on maximizing automation to make better-informed decisions faster, saving time and money. Now, with Forma being created as a platform, new partnerships are possible. Brought together by a hackathon, a new collaboration was born bringing new capabilities to Forma and TestFit users. Come hear the story behind the partnership, vision, and journey, and learn about TestFit's parking generator that is now available as beta on the Autodesk Forma platform.

Dynamo, Autodesk Platform Services, Autodesk Forma, Autodesk Construction Cloud… what do all of these have in common? They’re now closely coupled together where the Dynamo Service powers up Forma, enabling you to work with Dynamo content from anywhere, even a Mac. All you need is a browser! Game change? Absolutely. Worth exploring? You bet! Come join us, as we take you on a journey through Dynamo and Forma in a hands-on lab, allowing you to find out for yourself, step by step, exactly how these two powerful applications talk to each other and how you too can develop Dynamo graphs. We’ll explore how they’re connected today, how to pull data from Forma into Dynamo, and how to visualize and query aspects of Forma. We’ll cover how to work with the DynamoForma node package and explore different sample graphs that paint a picture across data, visualization, analysis, and geometry. And we’ll show you how to share your graphs with your peers. You’ll leave this class armed with the skills you need to create your own graphs that supercharge Forma.

Autodesk Forma software is Autodesk's cloud-based solution for early-stage planning and design. Aside from having a rich, evolving feature set, Autodesk Forma is also a platform: It exposes a powerful set of APIs that allow you to extend the core functionality with custom data and analyses. This session will look at the various ways to extend Autodesk Forma, with a particular focus on how Autodesk Research has created a voxel-based analysis extension using the embedded views software development kit (SDK).

Discover how Autodesk Forma software enabled our team to optimize a large-scale urban development project in its earliest design phases. This session will showcase how we used Forma to simulate daylight, wind, and energy impact in real-time, enabling smarter massing and faster stakeholder alignment. By integrating Forma with Revit software and using environmental analytics early, we shortened iteration cycles, improved design outcomes, and delivered a more sustainable, compliant solution. Whether you're an architect, urban planner, or Project Delivery lead, this session will offer practical workflows to transform your early design process with Forma.

Architects today face a complex challenge: accurately estimating carbon footprints while exploring a wider and wider variety of forms. In this session, we'll demonstrate how to effectively integrate Autodesk Forma software's carbon analysis tools with Rhino software's modeling capabilities, presenting a novel workflow that allows the evaluation of multiple designs simultaneously. Understand best practices for organizing data in Rhino. Learn methods to quickly incorporate insights from Autodesk Forma back into Rhino for ongoing design iteration. Discover strategies you can use to dramatically reduce the time spent on evaluating carbon impacts, achieving vast efficiency improvements, while maximizing design quality and minimizing environmental impact.

Join Miguel Elizardo, Daniel Stine, and Autodesk Forma Representative Andrés D'Silva for an engaging case study and industry talk on sustainable architectural design. This session will spotlight Lake|Flato Architects' application of Autodesk Forma in competing for commissions and achieving WELL Pilot Credits and WELL Platinum Certification on its own office remodel. With a focus on outdoor thermal comfort and wind pattern analysis, participants will explore how data-driven insights from Autodesk Forma help inform Lake|Flato's approach to sustainable design, leading to successful project outcomes and enhanced client presentations

Fail fast, as they say in tech. Our mantra for conceptual design is "Turn every stone.” That's why we've used Autodesk Forma as a tool for optimization and design evolution since it was conceived as a startup in Oslo, Norway. Autodesk Forma has played a pivotal role in the development of our 10-step methodology, which aims to increase the sustainability ambition in our projects. It has finally provided the much-needed support for data aggregation and seamless integration with our modeling software. The implementation of Autodesk Forma in our practice, from sketch to detail phase, has helped us create a transparent dialog with our clients and regulatory authorities, based on rich and objective information. It empowers us to find the best architectural solutions tailored to the unique characteristics of each site. In this session, we're excited to share a selection of large-scale urban projects in Norway that have been shaped up in Autodesk Forma and are transforming the urban fabric, leaving a lasting impact for generations to come.

Explore Artelia Denmark's innovative journey using Autodesk Forma software to win a new project amid stiff competition. Learn how the firm used Forma software's sustainability analysis capabilities to create multiple iterations of its project design, testing variations for optimal sunlight, daylight, and noise conditions. Artelia's client had a keen interest in exploring several architectural possibilities before settling on the final design. With Forma, the firm was able to meet this need, demonstrating its commitment to sustainable, outcome-based design. This case study shows not only Artelia's innovative approach to design, but also how the right tools can provide the flexibility to test, analyze, and optimize designs to meet client expectations and gain a competitive edge.

Sustainable design starts with bold ideas—but survives on hard data. In this session, discover how to bridge Autodesk Forma’s early-stage predictive analytics with Insights’ compliance calculations. Start with Forma’s early-stage modeling to forecast embodied carbon, then transition to Insights’ material databases to benchmark against global standards. Learn how Autodesk’s native integrations automate data continuity between tools, ensuring designs evolve from predictive insights to auditable outcomes. Walk away with strategies to eliminate greenwashing, client-ready ESG frameworks, and a workflow to align Sustainable Design ambitions with real-world compliance—all without compromising design intent.

The integration of Autodesk Forma software, Revit software, and InfraWorks software provides a powerful suite of tools for urban-scale design planning and analysis. The bidirectional workflows between Forma and Revit enable seamless transitions from conceptual design and analysis to detailed modeling. Simultaneously, the integration with InfraWorks allows these designs to be incorporated into a broader environmental context, including infrastructure engineering. This synergy empowers architects, planners, and civil engineers to optimize early design phases, ensuring innovative and feasible projects. By using each software's strengths, professionals can swiftly create study models that are easily updated and shared across teams. Furthermore, the ability to compare different options within Forma and InfraWorks ensures continuous improvement and efficiency in the design process. This collaborative ecosystem not only streamlines workflows, but it also enhances the quality of urban design and infrastructure projects.

The easiest and most cost-effective time to address sustainability is at the start of a project. With increasing challenges around climate change, it's essential that we understand the impact of our projects on the environment from the start of the design process. We'll share resources to help you set operational energy targets for your project and understand the local climate needs. We'll demonstrate how you can use Autodesk Forma software's analysis tools to get instant feedback on sustainability metrics for your proposals including operational energy and solar panel analysis. We'll reveal what design decisions have the biggest impact on achieving your operational energy targets.

We delve into the transformative power of Autodesk Forma beyond its role as a microclimate simulation tool. Through harnessing the capabilities of its API, we've seamlessly integrated Forma with other essential programs in our toolkit. This integration empowers architects to extend the advantages of design and information insights to all stakeholders within our ecosystem. By leveraging the synergies of Forma, Revit, Speckle, and Power BI, we've crafted a workflow devoid of information loss, offering a comprehensive project overview accessible and beneficial across the entire value chain.

This academic-focused case study will explore how Autodesk Forma software transforms a student's approach to architectural design with a new outcome-based model. Learn from early examples of Autodesk Forma being used in classrooms of architecture programs across Europe and the United States, and understand why students pick up Autodesk Forma quickly, using contextual automated project setup, smart 3D-design tools, and integrated, AI-assisted, real-time feedback on project outcomes to transform their learning processes. Hear from experienced architecture practitioner and educator Daniel Stine about how his graduate students embraced this new way of thinking within their design processes, and why teaching Autodesk Forma software's in-market offering is instrumental in realizing Autodesk's vision of Autodesk Forma as the architecture, engineering, and construction industry cloud. With these vital skills, students will be well-equipped to play a critical role in addressing climate change and securing their dream professional careers within the industry.

This case study will showcase Autodesk Forma software's new AI-based embodied carbon analysis, built in collaboration with EHDD, examining real-life use cases by Stantec practitioners to evaluate embodied carbon at the earliest stages of design. First, we'll expand on our AU 2023 product demo, exploring Stantec's partnership with Forma, and establishing the user needs and guiding principles that led us to the in-market embodied carbon analysis. Then, Jack Rusk, who leads the EHDD team behind the C.Scale engine that powers the analysis in Forma, will explain how these same user needs manifested in the computational back end, giving a look behind the curtain at the AI model. Finally, and most importantly, Stantec practitioners will show real projects where they've used the analysis to inform effective early-stage decisions. Specifically, these Forma users will demonstrate that democratized carbon solutions empower any designer to champion sustainable, outcome-based design from step one.

Join our AU class as we explore using Autodesk Forma software to rapidly simulate and analyze the impacts of extreme climate scenarios. We'll focus on the challenges of temperatures reaching 50+ degrees Celsius in Dubai, demonstrating how Forma software's powerful 3D geometry and microclimate analysis tools drastically cut down the time taken for such complex simulations. By recreating London's cityscape under these conditions, we'll provide valuable insights for sustainable architecture and city planning. Attendees will learn how Forma can significantly optimize their workflows, saving time without compromising on the quality of analysis. Come and engage in discussions about harnessing technology to mitigate climate-change impacts on urban environments

The most important part of the extendable platform are people who contribute to extending the functionality. Come listen to the stories of the development teams that have successfully built their solutions on top of Autodesk Forma. Learn not only about functionality provided, but also about motivation behind extending the ecosystem and ideas about where the industry is heading next!