Generative Design Accelerates the BAC Mono Street-Legal Race Car Into the Future
What’s one of the most effective ways to make a car go faster? Slash its weight in half.
The BAC Mono is a stripped-down street-legal supercar that weighs a slight 570 kilograms, less than half of a Toyota Corolla. The interior is pared down to a single seat and has an ultralight carbon-fiber chassis. The car’s newest iteration—which was unveiled at the BAC Innovation Centre in Liverpool, England—sheds an additional 4.8 kilograms by using generatively designed wheels made with software that maximizes strength-to-weight ratios. Dropping that extra weight could spark a revolution in automotive design and manufacturing,...Read the full article
Ready to Reduce Your Construction Emissions? Use the Embodied Carbon Calculator
It’s no secret that the construction industry is one of the biggest contributors of greenhouse-gas emissions. The numbers are staggering: Embodied carbon currently makes...Read more
Distributed Manufacturing Gives Small Businesses a Shot at the Big Time
Automated manufacturing : It’s a term that conjures gigantic factories churning out thousands of identical products, often owned by multinational conglomerates for whom agility...Read more
5 Ways Digitalization Fosters a Collaborative Culture in Architecture
In 2017, CannonDesign broke ground by hiring Hilda Espinal as its first chief technology officer—a surprisingly uncommon position for large architecture and engineering firms...Read more
Generative Design Takes Digital Urban Planning to New Heights Near Abu Dhabi
Jebel Hafeet , United Arab Emirates’ second-highest peak, towers at 4,000 feet, its ridges stretching across the garden city of Al Ain near Abu...Read more
This Firm Ditched Shrink-Wrap to Aid Sustainable Agriculture Practices in Myanmar
Supporting the world’s farmers in meaningful ways would make a big difference to the income and lives of people in developing economies. It would...Read more
Cycling and academia team up to explore thousands of design solutions for swingarm
University of Bristol engineering student combines his love of mountain biking with a curiosity about generative design to offer A.I.-powered solutions to a cycling...Read more
Curves and CO2 Reduction Coexist in Chicago’s Colossal Concrete Installation
Musing on the spiritual and formal predilections of the building materials he used so masterfully, architect Louis Kahn once famously said: “You say to...Read more
BIM and Automation Help Franken-Schotter Chisel Away at the Competition
The stone-production business has evolved over the years—a process that was once largely done by hand has morphed into the use of automation and...Read more
