From the course: Grasshopper: Generative Design for Architecture
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Limitations of generative design
From the course: Grasshopper: Generative Design for Architecture
Limitations of generative design
- [Narrator] I like to think of using generative design tools as having an incredibly productive, eager, tireless employee with zero life experience and no conscience. It's like hiring a three year old with superhuman speed. All that energy and speed is great but you as the designer are still the only responsible person in the room. You can't hand the keys over to a generative design algorithm, at least not yet. In practice, this often means a lot of effort on your part as the designer. Constraining the solution space to reflect constraints implicit or obvious in a traditional design process. Physics solvers like the kangaroo plug-in are a good example. You can't just specific the optimization goal, you also need to tell the solver that the ground exists, that there's gravity, that two physical objects can't intersect with each other. Generative design tools are also constantly pushing us towards design goals and requirements that can be easily quantified. Things like energy usage or…
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