The team was rebuilding facade panel layouts by hand for every design revision. We replaced that loop with a rule-driven engine that generates, validates and prices panel sets in seconds.
Client
Nordhaus
Year
2025
Stack
Grasshopper · Rhino.Compute · Web app
01 · Context
Facade layouts lived in a mix of Rhino files and spreadsheets. A single change to the grid meant three days of manual rework and a fresh round of quantity checks.
02 · System
We encoded the facade logic once as a parametric definition and exposed it through a compute service. The same ruleset now drives geometry, panel schedules and cost estimates.
03 · Interface
Designers adjust the grid, opening ratio and material in the browser. Results stream back in seconds, with fabrication constraints validated before anything is exported.
04 · Outcome
Panel schedules stay in sync with the model automatically, and the estimating team works from a single source of truth.