Nature Architects specializes in technology development focused on creating new shapes and ideas.
This page provides an overview of our “Form-Finding Technology” that we have developed.
Computational Shape and Idea Generation
Design challenges requiring new ideas and shapes—beyond improvements and reuse of existing designs—are increasingly demanded.
We develop software environments that generate promising shapes for satisfying constraints such as manufacturability and achieving performance, based on technologies including computational geometry, computational mechanics, mathematical optimization, and machine learning.
Database of Structure–Function Relationships
By exploring and utilizing databases of structures with distinctive properties and promising designs, it becomes possible to obtain not just a single solution but a set of candidates representing trade-offs between performance and constraints.
We develop technologies that integrate a wide range of shape generation, CAE, and optimization techniques to effectively database structures and provide them for design applications.
CAE for Design Exploration
For reliable and extensive idea exploration, it is essential to appropriately traverse CAE fidelity levels and control computational cost and accuracy according to the design phase.
We develop advanced technologies to enhance “CAE for design exploration,” positioned between mature CAE—aimed at replacing prototype testing—and simplified theoretical calculations, enabling design exploration that reliably generates breakthrough ideas.
Large-Scale Computation
We build computational resources and software environments for large-scale simulations, including automotive crash safety and complex fluid dynamics design.
By seamlessly executing analyses from reduced-computation initial exploratory simulations to high-fidelity analyses, we enable reliable design outcomes.
Integrated Software Environment
We develop a software environment that seamlessly integrates and handles the entire design exploration loop—from shape definition to analysis and optimization—without fragmenting software tools or expertise.
By combining our shape exploration technologies with this software environment, we enable an efficient design exploration process that is difficult to achieve using conventional software alone.