Fission is my latest 3D design game prototype under development. The design game is inspired by two classic toys: playdough and building blocks. When we were little, we all had a great time playing them to create 3D forms. Then we learned parallel projection and measured drawings in the architectural school. It was about that…

A major advantage of using generative design games is their natural affordance of flexible, non-linear design workflows. Conventional design programs privilege a linear workflow: the designer often needs to follow a prescribed process to develop and iterate design schemes. A typical example is Autodesk Revit. It prescribes a workflow beginning with massing and floor layouts….

This is an Unreal Engine game for optimizing louver shading design.

This semester, I taught ARCH651, a new graduate course that focuses on Computational Design methods. The studio project explores post-parametric adaptive façade design methods for a prospective boutique hotel at an urban infill site (17 W Kemp Ave, Watertown, SD 57201). The objective is to develop an algorithmic formal generative and evaluative workflow that produces alternate…