of Bryden Wood in 2015, having previously worked in architectural firms in Spain and the US, focusing on Urban & Public Space design, as well as Commercial & Residential design respectively..
Clients need to understand that their project team members might feel uncomfortable about a new and unfamiliar process and we encourage the senior client representative to reassure their team that this is expected and it’s okay.They need to understand that the standard processes are comfortably wrong: everyone feels comfortable about them but they produce the wrong answer, and that is because the path is predefined.. Once the values of a project are established, diagramming begins.
Visual language is key to articulating this.For instance, a client might express that they need a space to do.X process in, which needs to be near a space that can handle Y process, which needs to be next to something else essential but perhaps seemingly unrelated, and they all need to have good light and be highly adaptable.
For this, a diagram to spatially explore how this might work is a key tool for communication and design.Once all the stakeholders can understand and visualise the connections, designing a physical space unfolds.
Function comes first.. To purchase this book, visit.What came to me was not a revelation but a simple remembering.
Only three weeks ago I was involved in a webinar and I remember saying “Design to Value represents an ‘and’ rather than an ‘or’…”.new updated edition of Platforms book available to download here. )
and we have continued to expand on and optimise Platforms and other MMC methodologies in our work with both public and private sector clients.We’ve never sought to patent our work and we have open sourced the code for both of our construction design apps - SEISMIC and PRISM.
Our goal is to bring about maximum benefit for the wider industry and society.We encourage our clients to join us on this journey by allowing others to benefit from the knowledge and systems we create for each project.