Wallacei

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.