New trends in AI tools are shaping the practice of urban planning and structural design in a whole new perspective revolutionising the fields with technologies like Digital Blue Foam and Autodesk’s Generative Design for Buildings. Digital Blue Foam is a forward AI-driven tool for urban planners and architects and delivers real-time predictive analytics on structural performance. It is software designed to solve critical decisions that come too early for some at a project stage by simulating and predicting structural output, thereby avoiding costly adjustments and expediting timelines.
Another similar front in the advancing capabilities of AI is through Autodesk‘s Generative Design for Buildings, which analyzes structural integrity and design efficiency long before any type of construction begins. Using performance criteria such as load-bearing capacity, sustainability, and cost efficiency, this tool applies generative design principles to explore millions of structural configurations. Using it enables architects to test and optimize designs for aesthetic and functional improvement in buildings in a kind of digital playground.
Autodesk’s Generative Design tool to create, test and evaluate options
All these advances help to change the game in practice and bring pre-emptive structural assessment into the early stages of the design process. This allows architects to be better prepared with the tools necessary to achieve resilient, sustainable buildings. Compared to traditional analysis, which sometimes takes many hours to be processed through manual labour, AI’s predictive modelling brings to bear these processes, thus making architecture more responsive to environmental and structural demands. This shift portends buildings that will be safer and more adaptable in the face of future urban development challenges.
