The Forge: The world's first P-DfMA commercial office building opens in London

Larger businesses looking to design and construct their own labs..

, 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.

The Forge: The world's first P-DfMA commercial office building opens in London

A school, for example, can be configured in just 15 minutes.. Key insight.We will need more.convincing mechanisms to ensure that what was designed is what is built..

The Forge: The world's first P-DfMA commercial office building opens in London

The process will be able to handle multiple stakeholders and purposes, all at the same time, mitigating and eliminating the risk in these where possible.. Industry challenge.Even if each stakeholder or specialist, does their utmost to deliver as planned, the interfaces where specialisms meet will remain a tolerance risk.. As long as changes can be made on site, assets will always be vulnerable to unintended consequences..

The Forge: The world's first P-DfMA commercial office building opens in London

Platforms solution.

Platform II acts as a carrier frame, providing a stiff and accurate superstructure that allows proof of compliance in installation.This variety of uses demonstrates the broad capabilities of these digital design tools, which are beneficial not only for buildings, but also for linear infrastructure on a greater, geospatial, country-wide level.. Our experience here tells us that rather than designing things from scratch in the future, more and more work will be done using algorithmic design.

For example, PRiSM allows us to generate a design very quickly.We can then use a range of simulation tools to optimise and refine the design, in order to deliver the best possible solution for a specific site.

We are able to consider a variety of architectural and environmental factors: energy balance, people movements, overshadowing, architectural aesthetics, and placemaking.This gives us much better, and much more considered, designs at site level.. Additionally, our work on REM teaches us that if the algorithm creates an unusual outcome, the solution is to fix the ruleset, not the algorithmic model.