I am always curious about how things work and very keen on finding ingenious solutions.
Agility between different tools, capacity to make new ones or adapt inadequate solutions are empowering strengths to have. I make sure to adopt digital tools fitting a transversal approach, over time I have eliminated quite some to master less, better, deeper.
In a nutshell what is used at the studio daily :
- Rhino + GH and Python.
- PHPP for passive house (excel version and scripted emulated version, agnostic).
- Blender, for visuals and VR including Bonsai plugin for IFC check, GeoScatter for nature, together with Cycles and Octane rendering engine, and a large assets library.
- If there is time I would do the VR in Unreal, but there is never that kind of time, with blender it is not to Unreal level, but getting inside a project takes one click, cost is zero.
- Archicad for professional documentation and BIM according to ils (dutch standard).
My opinion about AI is ambivalent. There is the environmental drag, too burgeoning to judge if this will continue on that nasty path. So I use it ONLY for useful goals, but I wish to retain a degree of autonomy from it. Not sure to what extend this is realistic. I have tried offline solutions firring on an hard-drive, but the hallucinations are haywire. LLMs serve a great deal for gathering information and speeding up programming. But they also generate a form of stress from correcting all the garbage and pushing the tool to converge toward the goal in mind. That is especially true for someone in need to know all the ins and outs. Then, after the grudge work is done it is much more healthy to go on without, for the mind and the environment.
