#computational-design

How Do You Solve a Problem Someone Doesn’t Know They Have ?

If people don’t tell you, is there really a problem?

The Spreadsheet Is Never Just a Spreadsheet

It’s normally a symptom of something else

Searching Everything Is Slowing Your Scripts Down

Amazing what a little computer knowledge can do

What Happens When the Person Who Built the Solution Leaves

There’s always one linchpin in any system

When Did You Last Try Something New at Work?

We stop learning when we stop trying new things

Why Learning CFD Is Valuable Before Committing to an Aircraft Design

One of the most useful decisions I made during my journey into aircraft design was learning the basics of Computational Fluid Dynamics…

3 Pillars to Ground AI in Human Terms

Why computation is always reductive, data is always historical, and “intelligence” still isn’t meaning

Computing the Incomputable: Four Classes of Spatial Appraisal

In my previous article, I explored a question that sits at the intersection of architecture, computation, and human experience:

design democratisation: towards more inclusive and joyful architecture via material computation

reflecting upon the interrelationship between macro-scale architectural concepts — specifically bjarke ingels’ ‘hedonistic sustainability’…

設計不是只有創意：從設計運算、社工實務到 AI 協作的重新出發

如果設計只能依靠創意，那麼沒有被認為「有創意」的人，是否就無法進行設計？

Bridging the gap between computable systems & human appraisal of space

Ask an AI to generate a “sad” room.

A Week of Tutorials and I Still Couldn’t Use Grasshopper

Most courses are just memorization

Beyond Static Meteorology: Using Real-time Weather Data to Sculpt Spatial Topographies

Author’s Note: To articulate the underlying GPU mathematics and pipeline frameworks cleanly, sections of this manuscript were structured…

Smart Geometry in Grasshopper — Customized BIM using GH-Python

Grasshopper, along with its numerous plugins, is an extremely powerful development platform. Geometry generation and data management is…

Plasma Processing on the Edge

Every time we build a fusion reactor, etch a semiconductor wafer, or run a physical plasma thruster in space, we run into the same stubborn…

AI Made the Options, I Chose One — Finishing the Pavilion (Part 3)

Multi-objective optimization, a Pareto front of 10, and the part only a designer can do.

Are You Thinking About Your Script the Right Way?

The right design process is just as important as the solution

Are You Thinking About Your Script the Right Way?

The right design process is just as important as the solution

I Had Claude + RhinoMCP Write the Grasshopper — and It Understood Data Trees (Part 2)

Decomposing a concept into PoC stages, and the moment an AI handled graft / flatten correctly.

I Let AI Design a Pavilion — From a 3-Line Prompt to 655 Louvers, via a ChatGPT → Claude Relay…

Handing the whole pipeline — concept, implementation, optimization — to AI, and keeping only the director’s chair.

The Template I Use in Every Script

Don’t start from scratch every time

ReBreaking the Modular: Conflicting Objective Optimization for Modular Housing Design

Optimizing Solar Gain and Visual Privacy in Facades through Multi-Objective Algorithms using Rhino, Grasshopper, and Wallacei

Perfomance bottleneck in today’s computer architecture.

Computational speed is directly linked with the human intelligence level. With the evolution of computing, human civilization has developed…

Why I am using Computers to Fight Climate change from a Lab In Ghana

A final-year Chemistry student’s journey into computational research, carbon dioxide reduction, and climate science from Ghana.

I Wrote 100 Grasshopper Programs with RhinoMCP × Claude Code

Where AI drives, where it hits a wall, and what that means for daily Grasshopper work.

I Built 100 Rhino Models Almost on Autopilot — with RhinoMCP × Claude Code

What happened when I let an AI agent drive Rhino while I was on the train.

A decade and counting… of Computational Design.

I am closing in at 10 years as a professional computational designer and have enjoyed exploring this paradigm for design and design…

Going Fast Isn’t the Same as Rushing

Yes, you’re fast but at what cost ?

Does Consistency in Scripts Even Matter?

Does organization actually help

Generative design and algorithmic art: when math becomes the artist

How I Display Live Data in Rhino Using Conduit

Making this reusable was one of the best things

Mengenal Architectural Computing: Saat Komputasi Masuk ke Cara Kita Merancang Ruang

Fasad Al Bahar Towers di Abu Dhabi terdiri dari ribuan panel yang bergerak mengikuti posisi matahari. Struktur Beijing National Aquatics…

Your Script Doesn’t Need to Work on Everything

It really doesn’t have to be future-proof

My Three Biggest Failures in Computational Design

And what their lessons taught me

This Is What Working With a Computational Designer Should Look Like

Okay, it’s not the only way but I think it comes close.

Grasshopper atau Dynamo?

Kalau pertanyaannya “mana yang lebih hebat?”, jawabannya jarang membantu. Yang lebih membantu adalah: problem yang sedang kita hadapi ini…

How the Elefront Plugin Solves the Biggest Problem in Grasshopper

The plugin that turns one a single script into an entire system

Enigma Sudoku: Procedural Logic as Playable Computational Aesthetics

Source Code: https://github.com/reyrove/Generative-Art-on-fxhash/tree/master/Enigma%20Sudoku

What Happens When No One Understand What You Actually Do?

Communication and understanding are the pillars of any good design

Crazy Knight Curve: Emergent Geometry from Stochastic Chess Dynamics

Source Code: https://github.com/reyrove/Generative-Art-on-fxhash/tree/master/Crazy%20Knight%20Curve

FRACTAL CONTINUITY

A Manifesto for Multi-Scale Architecture

Designing Bleeding — Gradation in Density

The “Winner” logic for organic density gradients: Random < Probability, or what I call “Density Bleeding.”

TOXMAP

Turning Environmental Data into Responsive Architecture for Brownfield Redevelopment

Parametric Art: How Rules and Variables Are Becoming the New Canvas

Over the past ten years, parametric art has expanded quickly. Architecture, digital art, industrial design, interactive media, motion…

The idea of computational design and its Vision in the Automotive Industry

Introduction

When Computational Design Becomes Dynamic: The Possible Fabrication Methods in BeeGraphy

Introduction

Design to Fabrication Empowered — October 2025 Update

The latest BeeGraphy update introduces a major leap forward in how designers, developers, and fabricators interact within the BeeGraphy…

Molecular Descriptors and Their Indispensable Role in Drug Design and Research

“Decoding Molecules: How Molecular Descriptors Power Smarter Drug Discovery”

2025’s Most Competitive 3D Product Configurators for E-Commerce, Furniture & Industrial…

Product configurators have become essential tools across e-commerce, furniture retail, and industrial manufacturing. They allow customers…

ENIAC to Exascale: The Astounding Growth of Computing Power

From ENIAC to Exascale: The Incredible Growth of Computing Power