Federico is an architect by training and the co-founder of ENCODE, a Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA), Computational Design & Construction consulting practice.

He has extensive experience in computational design, computational geometry, geometry processing, and digital fabrication. This article highlights how Federico used Speckle to make ENCODE’s workflows more efficient!

Data-Driven Design with ENCODE

ENCODE is a consultancy practice for Architects, Engineers, Manufacturers, and Contractors to develop innovative projects from early design stages to construction, leveraging virtual construction technologies and DfMA processes. ENCODE acts as an interface between architects and manufacturing and construction delivery to digitise later stages of design.

Federico came across Speckle in its early days while exploring Grasshopper and Rhino workflows. He describes Speckle as “an aggregator of data for 3D content”, enabling him to perform interoperability and turn time-consuming tasks into efficient processes.

Federico is based between the UK and Italy, while his co-founder Massimiliano Manno lives in Australia, and their clients are based in various global locations. This makes ENCODE a distributed team that faces different time zones and approaches to work. Ensuring seamless collaboration for ENCODE means bridging a crucial communication gap with the right tools.

Federico and his team have been looking for a collaborative tool that would allow their clients to review their workflows and outputs without knowing any coding or connectors.

This is when ENCODE started using Speckle for iterative workflows to increase productivity across team members and clients.

Using Speckle for Better Data Control

One of the features Federico likes the most is Speckle’s version control, allowing him and his team to keep track of changes in real time, minimising the risk of errors, and allowing him to perform model comparisons.

This helps him and his team to keep an eye on the latest implementation changes and highlight what has been added or modified.

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Given its consulting nature, what’s most appealing to ENCODE is being able to communicate changes visually with key stakeholders.

This makes it much easier to showcase recent changes and incorporate feedback.

“We believe in open source and knowledge sharing, hence Speckle is a natural choice to host our 3D data and to make them accessible to our clients and collaborators, bridging representation barriers, increasing transparency and efficiency. Paired with our custom ENCODE framework it opens up a world of possibilities ensuring a granular digital planning from design to manufacturing and construction.” - ENCODE team

The Future with Speckle and ENCODE

Consuming and producing information when each project requires an agnostic approach, unconstrained from software package standards.

Speckle is and will keep supporting Federico and his team with producing and manipulating data to give them more control over their workflows without having them worry about buying new software licenses or wasting time reviewing models.

To hear Federico's story first-hand, visit SpeckleCon 2024 in London, where he'll join a fantastic lineup of AEC speakers and workshop leaders.

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