GenerativeComponents™ (GC) enables architects and engineers to pursue designs and achieve results that were virtually unthinkable before. Empowered by computational methods, the designers can direct their creativity to deliver inspired sustainable buildings that are freer in form and use innovative materials and assemblies. GC facilitates this by allowing the quick exploration of a broad range of "what-if" alternatives for even the most complex buildings.

This unique generative design software captures and exploits the critical relationships between design intent and geometry. Designs can be refined by either dynamically modeling and directly manipulating geometry, by applying rules and capturing relationships among building elements, or by defining complex building forms and systems through concisely expressed algorithms.

GenerativeComponents Bridge Example

To inform decisions, GC is integrated with building information modeling (BIM), analysis, and simulation software, providing feedback on building materials, assemblies, systems performance, and environmental conditions. This integration also ensures that intent becomes reality by enabling designs to accurately and efficiently flow through to detailed production and fabrication.

GenerativeComponents is already enabling leading architects and engineers around the world to deliver inspired sustainable buildings. Among them are Arup, Buro Happold, Foster + Partners, Grimshaw Architects, HOK, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Morphosis, and SHoP Architects.

 

 

 

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Lagoons images on all GC pages courtesy of Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates

Additional Resources

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Case studies

London Architectural Association Component Membrane canopy
The Setun Hills Business Park complex, by BRT Architekten, used GC to design four unique mixed-use buildings for the city of Moscow.
The four towers; part of The Lagoons complex in Dubai by Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates, represent the movement of candlelight
The Wayne L. Morse U.S. Federal Courthouse designed by Morphosis in Eugene, Oregon.
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium by ARUP uses GC to create a bio-frame stadium roof with 50% less steel than a traditional roof structure.

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GC Project Gallery

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projects created with GenerativeComponents

GC in the press

Read what CADUser UK Magazine
had to say about GenerativeComponents

Read how GC can aid in creating a
enviromentaly friendly building
from CADUser Magazine

GenerativeComponents: bridging
the gap — AEC Magazine
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Start creating with GC

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See how GC can aid in the design of a spiral stair case
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