# Wallacei courses

> **PAACADEMY offers professional online Wallacei courses, teaching architects how to apply evolutionary multi-objective optimization to building performance using Grasshopper and environmental analysis plugins.**

Wallacei is a Grasshopper plugin for evolutionary multi-objective optimization, enabling designers to run genetic algorithm analyses that simultaneously search for building designs that perform well across multiple competing criteria. Rather than testing a single design scenario at a time, Wallacei evaluates populations of design variations against performance objectives, including daylight, energy use, and thermal comfort.

At PAACADEMY, Wallacei is taught in _Building Performance with Forma and Opossum_ by Olaf Olden, an 8-hour beginner course providing a complete performance simulation workflow. The curriculum integrates Wallacei into a broader ecosystem of environmental tools:

- **Environmental Analysis:** Utilizing Ladybug and the Forma Rhino plugin for weather, wind, and microclimate analysis.
- **Performance Simulation:** Applying Cyclops for solar simulation and Honeybee for energy modeling and thermal comfort analysis.
- **Multi-Objective Optimization:** Deploying Wallacei at the optimization stage to evaluate and evolve design populations across all performance metrics simultaneously.

## At a glance

- Software hub: Wallacei
- Courses listed: 2
- Canonical: https://paacademy.com/software/wallacei

## Courses

- [Building Performance with Forma & Opossum](https://paacademy.com/course/building-performance-with-forma-opossum)
- [Design Integration with Cyclops, Ladybug & Wallacei](https://paacademy.com/course/design-integration-with-cyclops-ladybug-wallacei)

## FAQ

### What is Wallacei used for in architecture?

Wallacei is a Grasshopper plugin for evolutionary multi-objective optimization. It runs genetic algorithm analyses that search for building designs optimized across multiple performance criteria simultaneously, such as daylight, energy use and thermal comfort. At PAACADEMY, it is taught in _Building Performance with Forma & Opossum_ alongside Ladybug, Honeybee and Cyclops as part of a complete performance simulation workflow.

### What tools are covered alongside Wallacei in PAACADEMY's course?

_Building Performance with Forma & Opossum_ covers Ladybug and the Forma Rhino plugin for weather, wind and microclimate analysis; Cyclops for daylight and solar simulation; and Ladybug combined with Honeybee for energy modelling and thermal comfort analysis. Wallacei is used at the optimization stage, where it evaluates design populations across all these performance metrics simultaneously.

### Do I need advanced Grasshopper skills to take the Wallacei course at PAACADEMY?

No. _Building Performance with Forma & Opossum_ is classified as beginner level and is designed for architects and sustainability consultants new to computational performance analysis. General familiarity with Rhino and Grasshopper is helpful, but the course introduces performance simulation and optimization concepts from foundational principles without requiring prior experience with simulation plugins.