I am sharing one of my latest design games that I developed and applied in my undergraduate architecture studios. Although the game has been updated many times to reach a level of relative maturity, I still see it more as a prototype rather than a polished product. The game adequately demonstrates the power of pre-design…

Potential utilizations and advantages of pre-design visualization cumulate to one simple argument: the future of architectural design process should embrace pre-design visualization so that designers can make informed design decisions to effectively accomplish design objectives concerning person-environment relationship, some of which have long been overlooked in conventional workflows. To implement such a prospect, architectural students…

The quest for formal schemes is an essential mission of architectural design. When making design decisions about architectural forms, the designer gives intellectual efforts of conception, formalization, and evaluation that are interconnected in coherent feedback loops. As architectural visualization yields important evaluative data about designed forms, the form-finding workflow will be much more productive if…

Architectural visualization has long been a post-design endeavor: the designer produces visual materials after one or more design schemes are available. In a traditional design process, post-design visualization is ubiquitous and takes varied form in macro or micro level. Regardless of media forms and methods of production, post-design visualization always comes after the designer conceives…