This not only gives our clients the confidence that they have got the right solution, but ensures they understand why this design is preferable over all others.
The data library can then be embedded in configurators: digital web-based apps/software, which apply the digital data to automatically generate anything from a schedule of room types, to a full, digital asset model..This would revolutionise the speed with which up front design could be achieved, overcoming the challenge to investors presented by the need for more upfront design..
Primary School Configurator., developed by Bryden Wood, with Innovate UK funding is an open source, user-friendly web-based app, which configures a primary school building on a specific site in line with DfE requirements.This reduces a process that normally takes weeks, to a matter of minutes.
A similar configurator, called., has been created by Bryden Wood and Cast with the Mayor of London for housing and we see examples from outside the industry such as the Ikea 3D Kitchen Planner..
These digital tools vastly increase both the speed with which designers progress from data to the digital model and the number of options and permutations that can be considered when it comes to reconciling specific requirements and performance criteria.
A school, for example, can be configured in just 15 minutes.. Key insight.What is often not mentioned is that we can also achieve reduced embodied carbon and capital cost through optimisation and reducing the volume of building, and the earlier this is considered the bigger the carbon savings.. Bryden Wood have demonstrated that through optimising architectural layouts, we can produce higher net to gross ratio space.
We do this by enhancing circulation and ancillary spaces and providing more useful, flexible space.With the reduction in internal floor area, there is less space to be conditioned with expensive MEP systems, less structure and less external envelope.
This sustainable design process is incredibly effective..Lean design encourages optimised material usage within the building.
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