Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA).
But it doesn't feel like that's necessarily landing with the design community at the moment.”.Marks describes the world of the “new possible,” where everyone becomes a productiser making products, where owners become true influencers, and where some, like the ‘super subs’, general contractors, and builders, become systems integrators.
In this space, she says, it is only the architects who become more fully what they’ve always been and always set out to be..In this new world, she says, the architects will “truly become empowered architects, when you actually put real things in their hands…”.Johnston, an architect himself, is keen to reclaim the role.
He feels these new tools will help architects improve designs, outcomes and generally “achieve better things for clients.”.In other words, it’s the combination of productisation and technology that becomes the truly enabling factor..
Currently, Marks says, “we're letting people design with things that aren't real, and we're letting them make them less real by stretching them, or only looking at geometric shapes.
You actually need discrete data, you need the connection with the maker as the architect.This gave an investment profile for each scenario.
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