The range of value drivers from financial, aesthetic, socio-environmental and processual demonstrate the breadth of belief and aspiration.
The use of the same components across sectors allows the possibility of repurposing buildings – so an office block can later be turned into residential with relatively little intervention.. Digital design makes it all possible.In all of this, digital is our strongest ally.
Our ability at Bryden Wood to model using unusually large and varied data sets gives us a uniquely multi-dimensional perspective on problems.It means we can iterate, learn and iterate again.We can test multiple scenarios and identify risk and opportunity.
We can operate at a scale and speed that most can’t.. With the digital platforms we have developed within the Creative Technologies team at Bryden Wood, we have, and will increase, the ability to be agile, and to design a built environment that is agile too.We can help developers, planners and government Design to Value.. What we can’t do is change the way services are typically bought, provided and contracted for.
But we’ve seen approaches over the last few months that have stripped away barriers and taken a direct and pragmatic approach to procurement, when speed of delivery is the priority.
This is progress and again, it shows it can be done.. Another thing we can’t do is decide for clients what value is most important to them.‘Emphasis on value,’ he says, ‘does not necessarily mean that it precludes the use of interesting architectural form.’ Rather, the opposite.
The atrium aids with facilitating natural and easy way-finding, says Wood, adding that the building’s concentration on flow efficiency, as well as the sense of legibility the space provides, actually lends itself to a reduction in stress.‘Everything is self explanatory,’ he says.
‘There is no need for signs.It’s very evident where you might go for your consultation, or go to diagnostics, or in fact, go up to prepare for an operation…’.