Topic
Future of Lighting: Generative Design and Advanced Configurability Enabled by Additive Manufacturing
The merging of generative design, advanced configurability, and additive manufacturing technologies has created an opportunity to rapidly generate, visualize, and evaluate parametrically configured luminaire solutions. There is also the opportunity to be significantly more environmentally sustainable than conventional manufacturing while shortening the product development timelines. Lighting designers spend a significant amount of time preparing designs for visual evaluation using a variety of software tools and CAD models to present options to a client and to the manufacturer for approval. Generative design can create designs with user controlled parameters to rapidly visualize a design tailored to an application. Error checking with the actual CAD can eliminate the need for manufacturer approval effectively making a “custom” solution standard. The generative design component is also seeded with randomness that will generate designs that would never have otherwise been considered. This design tool has been developed and beta tested with select lighting designers to determine next steps for optimizing workflows.
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SpeakerS
Chris Sorensen
Trained as a Mechanical Engineer at CU Boulder, Chris has been at the cutting edge of architectural lighting for the past 16 years. He discovered a passion for lighting while playing guitar in a rock band with art school friends where they conceived of and built a light experience to best accompany the live performance. Coming to Acuity Brands’ Luminaire Concept Center in 2011 presented the perfect opportunity to hone both his technical and creative skills. Since 2018, Chris has had the honor of leading the team at the LCC. Over the past few years, he has led the team in the research and development of sustainable luminaires and presented on sustainable design and performance at the 2023 IES conference and on the environmental impact of lighting power and control systems at Leducation in 2021. When not designing the future of lighting, he enjoys backcountry splitboarding and mountain biking.
Dominic Large
With an educational background in Environmental Design and Architecture, Dominic has been practicing advanced parametric design within the architectural lighting industry since his senior year at CU Boulder. After learning parametric design practices via Grasshopper3D, Dominic discovered his passion for product design and more specifically, lighting design enabled by additive manufacturing. Starting his career at Interplay Lighting, designing and 3D printing decorative diffusers, he has since joined the Luminaire Concept Center at Acuity Brands. When he is not writing Grasshopper Definitions for the future of Architectural Lighting, Dominic can be found somewhere in the mountains either snowboarding or hiking, or at a rock concert, finding inspiration for his next lighting design.
