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.
We are proud to announce that Forma Site Design is a winner in the new software and technology category of the 2025 Architectural Record Best Architectural Products of the Year competition.
Winners are selected by an independent jury of industry professionals and the Architectural Record team. The jury stated: “Forma Site Design is overhauling early-stage design through cloud-based collaboration and integrated workflows. Forma Site Design is now connected to Autodesk Construction Cloud and geospatial software provider Esri to enable seamless data exchange between design and construction. Several new real-time analysis tools like the one for embodied carbon are AI-enabled.”
Why Forma Site Design is overhauling early-phase design
Supporting an outcome-based design approach, Forma Site Design helps architects make better early-phase decisions by providing fast, data-driven insights. Using Forma Site Design’s built-in environmental analyses for daylight, wind, noise, microclimate, and more, architects can quickly understand site constraints and test massing options. Using the embodied carbon analysis (pictured below), which is powered by machine learning, architects gain early indications into meeting sustainability goals.
AI-assisted optimization accelerates design exploration, while automatic contextual data streamlines normally tedious site set up. The Esri ArcGIS for Forma integration brings GIS data directly into the massing model, for added site context. Teams can bring their vision, concepts, and analyses in Forma Board to streamline the feedback process, allow easy sharing with stakeholders, and enable faster alignment.
Proposals transfer smoothly into Revit and other tools, ensuring continuity into later phases and avoiding rework. By streamlining early concept development and making site and environmental data more accessible, Forma Site Design helps architects plan every site with confidence.
This recognition highlights the dedication of the Forma Site Design team, whose work is shaping the future of connected AECO workflows.
Congratulations to all the winners in this year’s competition.
Learn more about Forma Site Design here.