StudioAVW uses data, technology and design to help cities, organisations and businesses make better decisions about the built environment.
A free web tool that estimates a building's embodied carbon from the napkin-sketch stage. No detailed model required.
Rough quantity inputs and a transparent carbon database give fast, useful feedback while design changes are still cheap.
Most LCA tools only work once a design is finished, when it's too late to change anything. CarbonSpace moves the carbon question to where it counts.
carbonspace.earth
Where in a city is there still room to build? SolarScape maps a city's rooftops and reads their potential for new uses and development.
A data-driven layer over the 3D city that shows where the hidden capacity actually sits.
Cities need housing and infrastructure while land grows scarce. Making rooftop capacity visible gives cities, developers and policymakers a shared evidence base to act on.
mvrdv.com · SolarScape
An online platform for laser cutting. Upload a drawing, get an instant quote, get the parts. Frontend, backend, and the DXF-analysis automation behind the quote.
Over 200,000 drawings analysed for instant quotes. What used to take days of back-and-forth now takes seconds.
snijlab.nl
42,000m² natural-stone façade, 40,000+ unique tiles held exact by a scripting pipeline.
Gridshell glass roofs, ~10,000 unique parts, geometry-to-factory translation layer.
Voxel-game participatory housing; produced VoxelTools, an open-source Grasshopper plugin.
Computer vision enriching Rotterdam's 3D city model, lifting ~300 homes from LoD2 to LoD3.
Live structural feedback in parametric design: the steel cost of every iteration.
Prefab parametric food units across European airports; shapes into fabrication drawings.
A Grasshopper plugin for voxel geometry and boolean operations. It grew out of the EgoCity housing game and is still in use via Food4Rhino and GitHub.
github.com/arendvw/voxeltoolsReliable polygon offsets and boolean operations for Rhino and Grasshopper. A dependable building block in countless parametric definitions.
github.com/arendvw/clipperEdit Grasshopper's script components in a real code editor, live. A sharper workflow for anyone who scripts in Rhino.
food4rhino.com · ScriptParasite
I'm Arend van Waart.
I work at the intersection of technology, data, design and the built environment, helping cities, organisations and businesses turn complex questions into better decisions. Trained as an architect in Delft and programming since my teens, I've spent more than twenty years moving between the creative world of designers, the technical world of programmers and engineers, and the strategic world of decision-makers.
My strength is finding the essential in complexity. Give me a messy, unfamiliar question and my instinct is to take it apart: what actually needs solving, what matters, who needs to understand it, what can be measured or built, and what has to be decided. Often the first result isn't the solution but a sharp, structured picture that turns an amorphous problem into a conversation a team can act on.
Technology and data are never the goal for me, only the means to reveal opportunities, enable action and create real impact.