COVID Office Occupancy: a Dynamo mega-graph and blog series

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I posted, back in May, about the work we’d been doing to explore the possibility of using the Space Analysis package for Dynamo to plan for post-COVID office layouts. Soon after that post our research relating to the pandemic shifted focus towards a longer-term plan of creating a “living lab” that would allow us not only to explore how design decisions might impact viral transmission, but to have these decisions based on data measured from a functioning ventilation system. Expect to hear more about that research in a future post.

We handed over the work that had been done until then by Rhys Goldstein, Hali Larsen, Lorenzo Villaggi, Ray Wang, Jim Stoddard and myself across to the product team, who could then explore whether it might play a part in some sample content showing possible workflows in Generative Design for Revit.

Thankfully the material did prove to be of use, and at least contributed to a series of blog posts – written by the fantastic Colin McCrone – that…

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