Obviously, there’s a challenge in thinking about ceiling heights and so on, but mostly the complexity is around air exchange.
This degree of automation will not remove the requirement for human judgement and discretion in planning decisions.The purpose of digitisation is to facilitate the process by reducing the burden on those people of large amounts of admin and tedious, repetitive tasks that can be done better by machines than humans.. Benefits for architects:.
A digitised planning process will involve a change in the way architects are required to produce some information on their designs, and it will enforce a rigour and consistency in the technical elements of designs (which does not imply or require any constraint on creativity).This is not a huge departure, however: rigour in approach is good practice, and the information required is already largely included in BIM models..The most significant change for architects will be to free up large chunks of their time to devote to the creative part of their work, which is where they can add the most value (and which is why they became architects in the first place)..
Better information for planning officers:.As for architects, digitisation is about giving them access to more and better information on which to base their decisions, and creating more time in which to make them.
Making these decisions is why people become planners in the first place..
If architects are using 3D models, why would planners use 2D drawings and not those models?Construction isn’t seen as an attractive option by the next generation, who would prefer to work in tech.
Their idea of construction involves standing in muddy boots, trying to build things in the rain.It’s vital that we change that perception, because this young generation of gamers already have many of the skills we now need in the industry.
They’ve grown up playing games like Minecraft and they’re used to working collaboratively in a 3D environment, designing with a standardised set of components.We tested our school design app SEISMIC on a group of nine-year-old children in London.
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