Enhancement in computation and analyzing data in real time has evolved the way we design our built environment and create building facades. We have been following our intuition to predict the size or shape of any space, but the new technologies now allow us to solidify our prediction and provide better solution. The new digital techniques, combined with human sensibility and manual (analogue) techniques, are opening new grounds of design exploration that are directed towards seamless integration of form, material, and its shape. This integrated process entails a shift from traditional prediction-based model to the processes of a generative and performative nature. This has resulted, in evolving our Design process, reflecting a synthesis of form, material, and performance.

Intelligent Surfaces focuses on creating building surfaces based on the weather data collected and modelling as per the energy requirement. Participants will be working on exercises, using techniques presented in the workshop. Workshop exercises will use Energy Modelling in combination with Computational Fluid Dynamics, Optimization & Evolutionary Solvers and Vectorial Fields to design forms of different scale and complexity. The proposed workflow will combine the use of general Weather data, Solar access analysis, daylight simulations, radiance skies, comfort charts, wind simulation, on Rhino, Grasshopper and CFD with some plugins, such as Weaverbird, and Lunchbox. During the workshop, participants will also be introduced about how to make their design more interactive using sensors and actuators with the help of firefly plugin.