It’s a good example of the improvements made viable with prototyping, which aren’t achievable when a project is live on-site for the first time.
For instance, a client might express that they need a space to do.X process in, which needs to be near a space that can handle Y process, which needs to be next to something else essential but perhaps seemingly unrelated, and they all need to have good light and be highly adaptable.
For this, a diagram to spatially explore how this might work is a key tool for communication and design.Once all the stakeholders can understand and visualise the connections, designing a physical space unfolds.Function comes first.. To purchase this book, visit.What came to me was not a revelation but a simple remembering.
Only three weeks ago I was involved in a webinar and I remember saying “Design to Value represents an ‘and’ rather than an ‘or’…”.The reason why it seems so hard to take choices which will protect us in the longer term is that we believe that to do so will lessen or lives, our livelihoods, our success in the short term.
We feel we have strived hard to get what we have, companies and investors have got used to the revenues generated, we have all benefitted from the growth of technology and cheap energy and the offer on the table seems to involve us giving these things up; the ‘OR’ feels oppressive.. What flooded into my mind then were the many examples, some experienced personally and some simply read about, that have demonstrated that we can have our cake AND eat it.
May be its not exactly the same cake, but just as, or even more delicious.For example, floor-to-floor heights are relatively standard across a variety of different buildings: schools, hospital wards, apartment buildings and certain office types.
This is because the heights result from the size of people, rather than being necessitated by the requirements of a particular sector.We allow for the height of a person, plus headroom, plus a zone for structures, M&E systems and architectural finishes.
Recognising this reality, platform construction (P-DfMA) was Bryden Wood’s attempt to identify these types of cross-sector commonalities and develop a kit of parts which could then be used to build a variety of different sector types, but using the same components.This allows the application of manufacturing techniques and processes, with consistent quality achieved, as well as facilitating greater economies of scale..