Autodesk Forma Team
Forma Site Design, available in the AEC Collection or as a standalone subscription, offers powerful AI-powered tools for architects and designers in pre-design and schematic design phases.
With the increasing complexity of projects today, meeting high sustainability requirements demands new skills from architects to evaluate and improve building performance. In parallel, new data-driven tools are empowering architects to integrate performance-driven design to optimize sustainability strategies from day one. Whether you’re a practicing architect or architecture student, the time is now to learn and master these skills to stay ahead.
In this free course created by Dan Stine, you’ll learn practical skills for applying sustainable design principles and performance analysis using Forma Site Design, Revit, and Insight. The course uses a real-life site and brief where you’re required to meet client and regulatory requirements.
If you have the AEC collection, you have free access to Forma Site Design.
If you’re new to Forma, sign up for a free trial here.
Each of the four modules contains videos, questions, and exercises structured in an engaging format.
Outcome-based BIM and sustainable design foundation
- What is outcome-based BIM?
- The role of sustainability in modern AEC projects
- Architects Tackling Carbon: Good for Business and the Environment
Getting started with Forma for conceptual design
- Learn to use the Forma interface and features
- Explore Forma analysis results in a sample project
- Set up a new Forma project
- Explore massing, contextual data, and quick metrics
- Create a new Autodesk Forma project
Evaluating environmental performance in early design with Forma
- Maximize natural light using daylight and sun hour analysis
- Shape comfortable spaces with wind flow analysis
- Explore how site-specific climate impacts with micro-climate analysis
- Design with sound in mind using traffic noise analysis
- Analyze a Forma project
Performance-driven design with Revit and Autodesk Insight
- Create an energy analysis model (EAM) in Revit
- Simulate energy performance with Insight and EnergyPlus
- Map embodied carbon from Revit to Insight
- Visualize and compare design options with Insight dashboards
- Create an EAM and view results in Insight
In the course challenge you can create your own performance-driven massing and sustainability strategy. Finally, if you pass the final test, you’ll earn a certificate of completion.
Teachers can download a comprehensive folder of teaching supplements.
So if you’re looking for a fun workshop in the office to help your team learn Forma Site Design, or a new course to teach for a design studio, definitely check this course out.
Link to the free course here.
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