Architecture firm Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel has launched ACPVLab, a research and development unit that will focus on using generative design to develop bespoke interiors.
Led by Paolo Mazza and Marco Brambilla ? who are both partners at Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel ? ACPVLab will use generative design technology to "move beyond off-the-shelf solutions" and create "richer" interiors at a fast pace.
Generative design involves using computer software to generate a variety of design solutions that meet the pre-set parameters of a given space.
"Generative design, assisted by artificial intelligence, has now reached a level of accessibility and computational power which allows us to use it for our bespoke design, now supported by more and better-informed decisions," Mazza told Dezeen. "Generative design and its algorithms will improve the speed with which variables such as comfort, people-to-people distance, headcount maximization, sustainability, natural lighting and other environmental and project data can be taken into account during the design process."

Using generative design, ACPVLab is setting out to develop its own scripts and software tools that will be able to process a greater amount of input data and therefore consider a wider array of spatial parameters.
These tools will be able to be to produce different types of spaces including residential, commercial and offices ? something which Mazza says is particularly important...