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Learn how GPU-powered simulation can integrate environmental analysis into design workflows, delivering rapid feedback on solar performance, daylight, and urban context.
Software Taught
Cyclops
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Instructor From
Foster + Partners
Software Taught
Grasshopper
Environmental performance is becoming an increasingly important driver of architectural design. As projects grow in complexity, designers require faster and more integrated methods for evaluating factors such as solar access, daylight performance, and radiation exposure throughout the design process.
This free live workshop introduces Cyclops, a GPU-accelerated environmental analysis tool developed by Foster + Partners. Led by Applied Research + Development (ARD) team at Foster + Partners, the session explores how near real-time environmental simulation can be embedded directly within architectural workflows, allowing performance data to inform design decisions from the earliest stages of a project.
Through practical demonstrations and practice-based case studies, participants will learn how Cyclops leverages modern graphics hardware to perform solar obstruction, daylight autonomy, and cumulative radiation analyses at façade, building, and urban scales. The workshop also explores how GPU-accelerated workflows can significantly reduce simulation times compared to traditional approaches, creating new opportunities for iterative and performance-driven design.
You will learn how to:
• Understand the principles behind GPU-accelerated environmental analysis
• Evaluate solar obstruction, daylight autonomy, and cumulative radiation performance
• Integrate environmental simulation into Rhino and Grasshopper workflows
• Apply scalable analysis methods across façade, building, and urban contexts
• Use performance data to support faster and more informed design decisions
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Day 1:
January 15th, 2026
3:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Day 2:
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Day 3:
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Associate Partner
Oscar is part of the Applied Research + Development team at Foster + Partners, where he develops computational tools that underpin performance-driven design workflows. His work includes solutions for view analysis, environmental simulations, rendering, and artificial lighting.
With a degree in Architecture and Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, Oscar has contributed to advancing the AEC industry in areas like geometry processing, digital fabrication, optimization, and software interoperability.
Associate
Wojciech has more than 5 years of experience developing tools and pipelines to address complex issues in architectural projects around the world. Since joining Foster + Partners in 2023, he has been developing bespoke performance-driven design products and contributing to some of the iconic projects the practice is currently undertaking.
As part of the Applied Research + Development team, Wojciech creates computational solutions in complex geometry, digital workflows, and performance-driven design. His expertise ranges from early-stage evaluations to implementing advanced workflow automation at scale.
Wojciech holds a degree in Architecture from The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London. His work is driven by experimental methodologies and a commitment to developing strategies for evaluation, representation, and generation in the AEC industry.
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