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Image: Alex Osterwalder | Flickr
Communication is fundamental in getting your design vision executed correctly. You communicate with a multitude of people as an architect: first and foremost with yourself, then with your team, with your client and ultimately with your occupants. And all of this makes up your design system.
At different points in a project you can use communication to leverage different things. Early on, communication can be a great leveraging tool to get your design optimized both aesthetically and functionally. Later on in your design process, communication can really leverage your building’s ability to stay with or under budget. Furthermore, it is communication that also sees to your building being constructed correctly in the field. Needless to say, communication is fundamental to getting your client what they want, building an environment that your occupant loves, and building an architecture that makes you proud.
Scheduling, Renderings and Diagrams, Are They Helping or Hurting You?
What if the very tools and ways you communicate are actually holding you back instead of helping your designs to move ahead? Yes, speed, quality and cost are paramount to most architectural design projects, but what about the way in which you prepare to communicate?
Much time during an architectural design process goes into Read more
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Diagram of red dot modules and lines of communication.
Image: Ethan Hein | Flickr
I am intrigued by this quote about modular design:
“A downside to modularity (and this depends on the extent of modularity) is that modular systems are not optimized for performance. This is usually due to the cost of putting up interfaces between modules.” (Wikipedia source here)
At first glance, modularity can give you ways to expand, re-locate or even provide for more mass customization opportunities within your work. And in some cases, modules can have such distinct characteristics that they actually serve to “brand” your work — if done well, this can be a good thing.
Yet, there is so much missed opportunity when it comes to the module. Instead of always trying to Read more
