Gensler Launches blox - Data Drive Design Platform

"In an era of machine learning, artificial intelligence and data availability in abundance, we’ve seen great focus in our industry on the topic of design automation. Over the past couple of years at Gensler, we’ve made the bold decision to align our practice innovation and design technology investments with our people-first philosophy." Joseph Joseph - Partner at Gensler | Global Director, Design Technology Studio

Today, Gensler is proud to announce blox™ as our first in a series of product releases in the inFORM™ ecosystem. Blox™ allows our designers to bring deep domain expertise and design heritage powered by market and project-specific metrics balancing form, function and business insights to take our clients on agile and predictable design engagements.

Data-Rich computational intelligence
Advanced form-sculpting and data assignment schemas
Heads Up Display [ HUD ] with dynamic and real-time metrics
Design at the building(s), city block(s) and masterplan levels
Agile design optioneering to study and compare design trade-offs
Sophisticated algorithms with real-time compute of complex geometry and metrics

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