Computational design

11 projects.

Performance-Data Enriched Floorplan Datasets

AI-assisted floorplan tools optimise for speed and quantity and leave out how a building performs. This thesis builds the missing step: a workflow that takes an existing floorplan database and gives every room its measured daylight and every window its solar radiation, so the dataset a model trains on carries performance and not only geometry. 42,000 Swiss apartments become IFC models, the models are placed on real sites through the Cityweft API, and Ladybug and Honeybee simulate them where they now stand — which is why the same Swiss block appears under eleven different suns, from Reykjavik to Riyadh. The panel draws thirty-two of the 782 buildings that came out: real plans read straight from the IFC, their flats, and their windows coloured by incident radiation, one season at a time and on one scale shared by every city.

isoGen

A workflow that generates isometric views of a building directly from the model, producing a consistent family of drawings instead of one-off exports. Applied to a courtyard block with a planted roof, where each iteration is rendered under the same projection and light so the variants stay comparable.

Graph ML

Building information modelled as a graph rather than a table: elements become nodes and their relationships become weighted edges, so questions about dependency and clustering can be asked directly of the structure. The visualisation makes the density of relationships legible at a glance.

Morpho Residencies

Two cities at opposite ends of density and climate, run through the same growth model. Animating the iterations side by side isolates what the algorithm contributes from what the site imposes.

Gridshell Studies

Form-finding studies for a gridshell: a relaxed quadrilateral mesh draped over a rectangular footprint, paired with a domed volume. The pair tests how two different curvature strategies meet on the same ground.

Shell House

A thin shell resolved as a single continuous surface: the roof peels open at one corner to make the entrance, and slender columns hold the perimeter just off the ground so the shell reads as a suspended plane rather than a roof sitting on walls. The surfaces are written out of Joseph Choma's *Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers* (Laurence King, 2015). The equations are its transformations and the controls carry its names — cutting, scaling, modulating, spiralling, texturing, pinching are chapters of that book, and each surface here is labelled with the page it comes from.

Algorithmic Chair

A chair derived by topology optimisation: load cases and supports are declared, material is removed everywhere it does no structural work, and the resulting lattice is the shape rather than a decoration applied to one. Rodin's Thinker sets the load case, which makes the method legible at a glance.

EVOL

A maximum-buildable-volume evaluator, running in the browser. Trace a plot over aerial imagery of a real place, drag its corners, say what each boundary faces, and the envelope it allows is derived on the spot — with the volume, the storeys and the floor area it holds, and a Rhino file to leave with. Two rule sets sit side by side: the one his own Grasshopper definition computes, and the Chilean OGUC as it actually stands, where a street frontage is not a boundary, the rasante is a cone raised at the middle of the street, and what usually limits a building is not the envelope at all but the coeficiente de constructibilidad.

Eden Tower

A tower whose floor plates rotate and taper as they rise, so the structure reads as a single twisting stem rather than a stack of identical levels. The crown opens outward into a planted platform and the base is resolved as landscape rather than a plinth.

gAIa

A design assistant that lives inside Rhino as a panel with two tabs, so the carbon question is asked where the massing is drawn rather than in a report written after it. The chat tab answers in plain language — change the exterior walls to timber, what would lower the A/V ratio without a redesign, how does this version compare with the last one — and the data tab lists the building it is talking about: typology, window-to-wall ratio, every partition and its insulation, and the global warming potential of each saved iteration. Nothing is re-simulated while you work. A capture of the viewport goes to CLIP, which names the massing typology; a model trained on Honeybee and Ladybug runs predicts energy use, heating, cooling and embodied and operational carbon from the geometry and the material table; and the language model answers over the studio's own documents through LangGraph and retrieval. Saving an iteration adds it to the gallery and to the trend chart, a render is generated from the material selection through a ComfyUI graph, and the whole session exports as a report. It runs locally and against a single weather file, which are its two stated limits.

Ensō Hyperbuilding — Structure

The structure team's proposal for a hyper-building: a stack of programme volumes carried by an exoskeleton and by cores whose form was found rather than drawn. The core geometry comes from a topology optimisation run over the whole envelope — material taken away wherever it does no structural work, down to eight per cent — after the femur, whose trabeculae follow the same principle. Benchmarked against five built towers on two measures: column-free floor area and structural efficiency.