Digital Processes for Wood Innovation Design

The study reports the outcomes of a research activity focused on digitization techniques and in particular on the value of computational design, with the aim of implementing innovative product and process solutions resulting from an integrated design approach. The digitization paths focused on representative strategies for digital optimization of the architectural form of wooden houses as a function of context, based on research on generative modelling and evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective optimization applied to the architecture of wooden houses. With such an approach, centered on artificial intelligence or at least on augmented computational intelligence, it was possible to achieve a process of mass customization of meta-planning solutions of wooden architectures, based on the morphological and energetic selection of the best configurations, identified according to the context. These results were made accessible through a web-based configurator that provides the designer with initial configurations from which starting the real project. The studies are projected to the definition of a prototype of the “breathing house,” characterized by its moisture-responsive wooden panels, with the identification of innovative solutions capable of reacting passively to changes in humidity according to the “natural intelligence” of the material, whose morphological transformation, empirically studied and digitally transcribed to identify performance solutions, generates well-being for living.