The NYC Multifamily Market is Moving Faster Than Ever—But Feasibility Studies Are Stuck in 2010
📅 Date: Thursday, March 19, 2026
🕐 Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Time
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Gavri Slasky of SBJ Group is joining us live tomorrow! SBJ Group is a New York firm with 58 years of history specializing in multifamily and hospitality projects across the city.
Gavri is a winner of the SARA National AI Design Award, and tomorrow, you'll see something unexpected. He took Ark, a platform built for multifamily and mixed-use residential projects, and hacked it to design a New York City school. It wasn't what the software was intended for, and that's exactly what makes it fascinating. His vision and experiment open up a live discussion about the future typologies coming to Ark's new version, including hospitality, schools, and beyond. Where could this go? On March 19, we find out together.
Walking you through a SARA-NY AI Design Award submission — straight from your live hackathon project. No extra homework. No separate form at midnight.
Oderating the live Q&A. All your questions answered — including the ones you were told to "resolve in post-crit.
Architects are spending 20-40 hours per feasibility study—unpaid—using the same manual CAD and spreadsheet workflows from a decade ago. Meanwhile, developers expect faster turnarounds and more iterations than ever.
Something has to give. Either we start charging for feasibility work (good luck with that in this market), or we find smarter ways to work.
At ArkDesign, we’re helping architects compress 20 hours of feasibility work into 30 minutes using AI-powered massing and schematic design. Not to replace design thinking—to eliminate the tedious iteration work.
Join Fabiyan Pimbelski (Executive Director, SARA National), Fariba Makooi, AIA, SARA, NCARB (Principal, Fischer+Makooi Architects, NYC), and Dity Ayalon, AIA, SARA (Founder, ArkDesign.AI) as they walk you through real projects and show you how to transform your practice.
“I find ArkDesign one of the most practical programs that I use. It’s great for feasibility and schematic, preliminary design. Clients come to us and say, ‘What can I build here? How many units? What’s the square footage?’ Normally, it would take me a few days to put it together—figure out the geometry of the building, have some idea of what I’m going to do with the units, have somebody draw it, do the calculations, put it in an Excel sheet, then I can look at it, adjust it, and send it back. With ArkDesign, I can do this in half an hour, or an hour for difficult projects.”
— Fariba Makooi, AIA, SARA, NCARB, Principal, Fischer+Makooi Architects, NYC
This isn’t a webinar—it’s a hands-on hackathon where you’ll create a real AI-powered design project from scratch.
Watch as our expert presenters take a complex mixed-use NYC project from concept to complete feasibility study in minutes. Then do it yourself with our new version launching live during the event.
Follow along and develop a complex mixed-use project from concept to feasibility in real-time. See how to compress 20 hours of work into 30 minutes—without sacrificing design quality.
Learn strategies from practicing NYC architects that work for larger clients and complex projects. Discover how to handle multiple iterations quickly while maintaining your design vision.
Get exclusive hands-on access to our latest version before public launch. Explore AI-powered massing and schematic design features that eliminate tedious iteration work.
Fabian Pembelski will guide you on how to submit your AI-generated designs to the SARA-NY Design Awards and position your work for recognition.
The NYC multifamily market is moving faster than ever. Developers expect 10X quicker turnarounds, sharper insights, and exponentially more iterations.
The practices that thrive in the next decade won’t be the ones still using 2010 workflows. They’ll be the ones that combine design expertise with cutting-edge tools. They’ll deliver in 30 minutes what used to take weeks. They’ll harness AI to eliminate tedious work without losing the human touch that makes great design.
What’s your firm doing to speed up the feasibility phase without sacrificing design quality?
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET
Cost: FREE
Format: Live online hackathon
Certificate: Ark AI Certification provided
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