Unleash Boundless Building Optimization with TestFit Generative Design

TestFit has launched Generative Design, a groundbreaking AI tool that enables architects and developers to optimize for the best building and site layout effortlessly.

For us, this is the next step forward. After expanding our tools for Site Solver and releasing a free massing tool, Urban Planner, earlier this year, it was time to take our real-time AI a step further.

With TestFit Generative Design, you can explore a multitude of design options in seconds, maximizing your site potential faster than ever before. Whether you’re working on multi-family development or industrial buildings, this powerful tool enables you to test every permutation, including those you might not have considered.

Let’s dive right in.

Generate Design Options in Seconds

TestFit Generative Design allows you to generate design options in a fraction of the time traditionally required.

At TestFit, we focus on building typologies experienced in our daily lives. From multi-family development to industrial buildings, you can explore all the possibilities before deciding on the right program for your site.

Meet Your Standards with No Fuss

With TestFit Generative Design, you can seamlessly import your existing unit and building configurations to solve for your own presets without duplicating work. This ensures that the proposed design solutions are optimized to meet your predefined company standards, optimizing for the best possible outcome.

Our CEO and Co-Founder, Clifton Harness elaborates on the idea behind this feature:

“On April 4 2018 in TF 1.0, we supported the ability for users to resolve a site using parameters saved in a thing called a "preset". Today, in 5.0, six years later, saved presets are used as a custom seed to generate thousands of schemes automatically.”

Evaluate with Goals in Mind

Takes the guesswork out of design evaluation by sorting AI-generated design options with your key performance indicators (KPIs) in mind, you can focus on what matters most.

Optimize for parameters such as FAR, parking ratio, yield on cost, and more, ensuring that you find the best development scenario that aligns with both your design intent and pro forma.

Visualize Your Deal Data

With thousands of options provided to you, we give you different ways to review your options. Once you've sorted by your goal, the bar chart shows the best-performing options at the top.

You can hover over each to see details or change the zoom level to see each option in one concise deal card view.

Regenerate for the Best Solution

The best part about Generative Design is the ability to continuously refine your design options until you achieve the desired result. This is even easier with TestFit. Once you select a preferred solution, it will automatically regenerate similar solutions to fine-tune your design. 

Adjust goals for each regeneration to ensure that every iteration brings you closer to what you need.

Customize the Best Option

Why start from scratch when you can begin with an AI-optimized plan? With TestFit Generative Design, you can customize your design options as Schemes.

Save each option with different design and financial modeling parameters, and manually adjust any AI-generated layouts to fit your unique needs. With Schemes, you can compare each solution with real-time insights like NRSF, efficiency ratio, and yield on cost to make the most informed decisions.

Ready to revolutionize your design process? Book a demo today and unleash boundless building optimization with TestFit Generative Design.