Description
In this Lab, participants will use Forma to set up their own project and start designing and experimenting! We'll cover how to use our rapid operational energy analysis to see and build intuition on the impact of compactness, orientation, and with a few other basic building parameters on operation energy.
We'll dig into our AI-powered operational energy analysis to understand how a building's form and primary materials impact the energy consumption and subsequent carbon. We will look at the tradeoff between these ad other analyses, including sunlight, noise, utci and wind to empower you to balance trade-offs and learn how to design in an informed outcome based way. The built environment isn't optimized for a single objective; you need all of this information in the same place and with Forma you get that all in the browser. We will also showcase how Forma is engineered for collaboration.
Key Learnings
- Learn the basics of creating and changing buildings in Forma
- Learn how early phase design decisions, including window/wall/roof construction and window-wall-ratio impact EUI
- Gain experience and intuition about how design decisions impact building performance and site conditions
- Learn how to balance tradeoffs and design in an outcome-based way