WATG Summer Hack: Fusing innovative hospitality and generative design

WATG
September 2, 2020

Starting in 2019, WATG and TestFit, a company that specializes in generative design, entered a partnership to explore the potential of design option automation for hospitality building types. TestFit has enabled our team to quickly move past parking and unit calculations, so we can spend more time on what we love, world-renowned, innovative design.

The timing of this article aligns with the release of TestFit 2.9, which officially introduced hotel functionality. Immediately following the release, WATG hosted a global, firm-wide virtual event where designers could test out the new features and report their findings.

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“In this industry, it is important to continuously learn new programs to better ourselves – firm-wide and individually. Working with new software and implementing it within our everyday workflows keeps us ahead of the curve. We are so grateful to be able to team up with TestFit for this exercise. Having their software developers who are willing to work with our designers to capture valuable feedback is a great way to better our process and the software development” says Daniel Caven, Global Design Technology Lead at WATG.

Starting in 2019, WATG and TestFit, a company that specializes in generative design, entered a partnership to explore the potential of design option automation for hospitality building types. TestFit has enabled our team to quickly move past parking and unit calculations, so we can spend more time on what we love, world-renowned, innovative design.

The timing of this article aligns with the release of TestFit 2.9, which officially introduced hotel functionality. Immediately following the release, WATG hosted a global, firm-wide virtual event where designers could test out the new features and report their findings.

...

“In this industry, it is important to continuously learn new programs to better ourselves – firm-wide and individually. Working with new software and implementing it within our everyday workflows keeps us ahead of the curve. We are so grateful to be able to team up with TestFit for this exercise. Having their software developers who are willing to work with our designers to capture valuable feedback is a great way to better our process and the software development” says Daniel Caven, Global Design Technology Lead at WATG.

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