Project Studio

iBUILT with Danil Nagy, Vina Rahimian, Paniz Farrokhsiar, Yankun Yang, and Zeid Ghawi

Project Studio is iBUILT’s marquee software product, and allows developers to automatically test-fit parcels with zoning compliant buildings that maximize GFA and hit target unit mixes. By incorporating iBUILT’s catalog of modular units, designs generated by Project Studio include highly detailed material estimates, cost calculations, and construction timelines, giving Developers immediate insights into investment opportunities and significantly de-risking new projects.

At the heart of Project Studio is the “Generator”: a Computational Design API that powers the design of iBUILT buildings. The Generator leverages an Object Oriented framework to organize the massive amount of information required to produce a modular construction project: manufactured assemblies are captured in object hierarchies; design logics are codified as algorithms; and parcel, zoning, pricing, and market data are accessed through additional endpoints.

OOP also allows the Generator to “grow” buildings as agent-based systems, an important step towards leveraging Reinforcement Learning and other modern AI frameworks, as well as a departure from the procedural logics typically found in desktop software like Grasshopper and Revit. However, by storing the code base within an API, members of the design team can access the Generator from other commercial software products, and not solely through the frontend of Project Studio.