At Hypar we believe in a future where anyone, anywhere can create, use, and share design logic to realize better buildings. In pursuing our vision, we created the world’s first extensible design automation platform to develop and share building expertise. Years of cloud service development have made it easy for our team and our customers to rapidly deliver sophisticated AECOO applications through the browser.
Using our platform and our open-source extensible building data model, we’ve created custom applications to manage wallboard optimization in the field, generate roof drainage and mass timber structural designs, automatically position hundreds of low-voltage devices, and generate whole residential and data center proposals. Our publicly available applications include our workplace and healthcare space planning solutions which allow designers to create project proposals in minutes rather than days. By using Hypar’s integrated building expertise and system configurations, teams accelerate projects while arriving at better decisions.
With basic building expertise encoded in our services and vertical applications, users of Hypar can concentrate on more demanding building challenges without starting from a blank page. Our environments leverage both automated expertise and professional intervention to draw on the best of repeatable procedures, artificial intelligence, and designer creativity to rapidly explore, select, and extend optimal building solutions. Decision processes and owner interactions that once required months can be reduced to weeks or even days. Because Hypar is constructed modularly from compatible AECOO microservices, designers can assemble the platform technologies they need to produce productive applications, reusing individual components from project to project to provide consistent deliverables.
We spent much of 2023 focusing on healthcare design solutions, taking advantage of the sector’s established standards for spaces and equipment to rapidly generate plausible solutions, guided by metrics to support informed decisions. For example, from one project to the next, identical Exam Room configuration logic and default equipment can be deployed, making repeat engagements much faster and more accurate while remaining aligned with owner/operator expectations.
Our biggest challenge is managing the complexity of modern buildings with applications that achieve simplicity through elegance. We’re rethinking the way our technologies intersect with the design process so we can broadly support the industry’s future direction. While currently concentrating on specific sector challenges, every decision we make with our customers must scale across multiple building typologies. We measure our success simply: the more confident design decisions that Hypar supports, the more successful we are in helping the AECOO industry deliver better buildings faster.
2023 was the year Artificial Intelligence (AI) became viable in a variety of professional contexts. In 2024 we expect AI to become less of a hypothetical technology and more routinely employed for discrete building design tasks. We anticipate that automated image recognition and processing will be more widely integrated into building design software, as we’ve done with our facade generator that uses example photographs to generate quantifiable 3D models. The advent of widely available large language models will result in new and more intuitive ways of interacting with computational environments, as we’ve demonstrated in our text-to-model solution where descriptive prose can generate a building’s conceptual model. Finally, we expect that advanced AI search and other querying capabilities will emerge in complementary construction administration products, as we saw beginning in 2023.
Such advancements will lead designers to expect their tools to be intelligent, anticipatory, and precise, especially in relation to building codes and project delivery standards. In the future, the best AECOO tools will become assistants helping create better buildings, rather than merely creating better drawings.b
