‘It’s actually a really quiet environment,’ Obinna Ihejetoh says, ‘we always forget we’re under the Westway.’.
Adaptability and feedback on the suitability of certain DfMA construction systems are just some of its features.Cresser-Brown notes that because designs are generated at speed, it allows users to ‘make objective decisions based on far greater exploratory studies than possible using traditional feasibility workflows.’.
Phil Langley points out that ‘the app encodes... ‘best practice’ design guidance from across the manufacturing and systemisation industry and will be made freely available and open source.’.Jami is also currently working on an Innovate UK funded project for the design configuration of primary schools.The project is also delivered as an open source, web app and as she says, ‘enables architects, teachers and pupils alike to quickly and easily configure early stage design proposals...’.
Digital school models feature ‘clusters’ of rooms, which adhere to Department for Education area/adjacency requirements.The goal is to achieve compliant school design from the outset, whilst simultaneously maintaining flexibility and creativity.. An openness and willingness to share ideas is important to Cresser-Brown, who recognises the unique position the industry currently finds itself in resulting from new digital and manufacturing opportunities.
She expresses a desire to help create a better built environment and enthuses about the fact that both of these existing projects are being released on an open source basis.
‘Sharing current thinking and best practices freely,’ she says, ‘is the best way that we can shape the industry as a whole.’.Transport for London, L&Q, Legal & General Modular Homes and Greystar.. PRiSM has many different practical uses and benefits, but at a very fundamental level, the app can be seen as a launch point for digital residential design.
Among other things, it begins to help us fill in some of the digital gaps left by the construction industry’s more traditional processes.It unlocks the potential for an automated digital workflow.
PRiSM offers us a glimpse of what is possible.It opens up our imaginations.. Digital Construction App Broadens User Understanding and Drives Value.
(Editor: Ultimate Wipes)