All you have to do is push be manually operated to transfer a few buttons and it is information and ideas from the creator’s head, ultimately to paper. Just Push a changed, right?. As a practicing Architect of 22 years I cannot tell you how many times I I am happy to say times have changed! Few Buttons! have heard that since the introduction With the latest in generative design of Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) software, we are now able to create Software. The truth is, there are many numerous design solutions in the time nights when I was still up at the office it would have previously taken to just around 2:00am hammering through schedule a meeting to present one design design changes for a meeting the next idea. At ModularDesign+ (MD+) we are day when I wish that was true, though not only changing the way we deliver considered Taboo in the Architectural projects through our prefabricated world. The problem with early CAD is modular solutions we are also enhancing just that, while it helped aid in the speed the way projects are designed utilizing of making changes over traditional hand creative thinking and generative design drafting, it was still only a tool that had to software. lead to concept solutions the designer be taught in school, now 3D may not even think of or thought would CAD is the practice standard. not otherwise work without spending In fact, I only recall one countless hours or days manually drawing professor who knew how to them out first. use CAD in my college and very few veteran Architects using it in practice, many “Modular design of volumetric claiming “it would never last”, units is a field based on very MD+ is always seeking not only a faster or “it was a fad”. way, but a better way providing more straightforward rules of efficiency, value to our customers, creating a higher structural load tracing, repetition, quality solution while compressing and standardization that makes it an At ModularDesign+ we do not construction schedules and reducing cost. ideal candidate for uniting parametric hold to traditional standards; design and generative design. On a we seek to always break the Utilizing generative design software, building-wide scale, projects using mold and create new ways we are able to capture all of our client’s this type of compartmentalized to develop project delivery goals, specifications, design thoughts and short-span structural system and its methods that will help our other relevant information to set design repeating modules have the ability to clients. We do not care if it parameters, no different than a traditional use generative design to layout entire is taboo in the profession or design process. The difference, much like sites with pre-engineered units and do will turn the industry upside the first calculator to a mathematician, the bulk of documentation in hours down. We simply seek to is the software can produce hundreds or days instead of weeks or months.” innovate and deliver a better of alternative solutions in the time a (Bryan Morrison, AIA – MD+ Design project, faster at less cost traditional designer could produce one Studio Leader). without compromising our or two. This provides our customers with client’s goals. Please give us a more options to evaluate from the early call and see how we can help conceptual design phase in a matter of bring your project delivery to minutes, rather than days or weeks, to the forefront of the industry, determine the ultimate direction they saving you time and money in want to go with their project. the process. While providing numerous alternative solutions, this does not take the design control /creativity away from the Architect or Engineer. The process is typically applied to the repetitious design As we look to the future, our world is elements, i.e. sleeping rooms, exam changing at a faster rate every day, with it rooms etc.. that can make up 80-85% of we must change. This includes one of the the overall project and take up the most oldest progessions in the world, Archi- time reconfiguring in the design stages. tecture. The human touch in desgin will This leaves the design team more time to never go away, nor should it, however we focus on the more critical elements of the must adapt to work with tools that are project. The software can also be used to developed to help us become better at evaluate a large number of solutions from what we do. Can you imagine a housing programming, to site layout, to building framer still using a nail and a hammer op- and unit configuration, even elevation posed to the pneumatic framing hammer? studies, in a very short amount time. The When I first came into the profession in Sean possibilities are almost endless and can the late 90’s, 2D CAD was just starting to Studzinski President www.ModularDesignPlus.com.