Autodesk, Inc.

Lindsey Wikstrom

David Benjamin

James Stoddart

Lorenzo Villaggi

Damon Lau

Rui Wang

A computer-implemented method for generating a building design for a building site having a complex shape comprises: generating a first group of processing areas from a plurality of processing areas associated with the building design and a second group of processing areas from the plurality of processing areas; generating a first building footprint leg that is sized to include the first group of processing areas and a second building footprint leg that is sized to include the second group of processing areas; at a pivot location, joining the first building footprint leg and the second building footprint leg at an aperture angle; performing a numerical simulation to position the first group of processing areas in the first building footprint leg and the second group of processing areas in the second building footprint leg to generate a candidate building design for the building site; and rendering the candidate building design.

Generating viable building designs for complex sites

Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for assessing sustainability of a building design. The techniques include receiving a building design for a budding and sustainability certification data describing a plurality of sustainability certification systems; selecting one or more particular sustainability certification systems from the plurality of sustainability certification systems; computing a respective sustainability certification value for each sustainability certification system of the one or more particular sustainability certification systems; and performing one or more building design operations based on sustainability certification system values for the one or more particular sustainability certification systems.

Optimizing building design and architecture for sustainability certification

Various embodiments set forth systems and techniques for determining expandability of a budding design. The techniques include receiving a building geometry indicating a size of a building and a shape of the building; receiving building placement data indicating a placement of the building within a site; identifying one or more remaining spaces within the site based at least on the size of the building, the shape of the building, and the placement of the building within the site; for each remaining space of the one or more remaining spaces: determining whether the remaining space is a usable space; based on the determining whether the remaining space is a usable space, generating a space expansion value corresponding to the remaining space; and computing, based on space expansion values corresponding to the one or more remaining spaces, one or more aggregate expansion values associated with the building geometry and the building placement.

Optimizing building design for future transformation and expansion

A computer-implemented method for computationally determining ventilation efficiency when generating a building design comprises: generating a first three-dimensional (3D) mesh based on a first 3D building model; performing a first fluid dynamic computer simulation based on the first 3D mesh and first environmental data associated with the first 3D building model to generate a first output data set; and computing, based on the first output data set, a first value for a ventilation performance metric that is associated with the first 3D building model.

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Lindsey Wikstrom