Generative Design for Early-Stage Site Feasibility: Past Projects as Warm Starts, and Where AI Fits
GD–AI Loop 2.0 · Lab Notes #7 · From testbed to practice The notes in this series up to Lab Notes #6 came from a simplified 1.5 m grid testbed. This one asks: “So what is it good for in actual design practice?” What was confirmed in the testbed and how it might carry over to practice (not yet validated) are separated by color. We then fed a single brief — “10 rooms, 2 floors” — into a fictional irregular lot and ran it end to end as one flow: from the instant answer, to a GA warm-started from past designs (here, solutions this pipeline had already produced for other sites, standing in for an office’s past projects), to a comparison of egress evaluation criteria. After seeing those results, we added one wider lot, with room to choose exit stairs, as an example. Nov 1, 2026 (English edition Nov 6) · Previous: Lab Notes #6 — evacuation simulation as the fitness function Update, Nov 6, 2026. Takeaway ③ and §5 compare evacuation criteria with the v1 crowd model of Lab Notes #6, which h...
