Design Conspiracy (The Cloud):
‘Conspiracy’ as a concept has been maligned by
thriller writers and twitterati alike. It literally means
”to breathe together” and is an excellent metaphor
for the design relationships that were forged
between the clients and their entire professional
team, as well as with the contractors, suppliers
and sub-contractors.
The architects came up with a draft conceptual
design using ArchiCAD BIM software to fully
illustrate the design intention on the one hand, but
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also to engage the clients in a three-dimensional
interaction with the intended spaces and masses.
Direct involvement was facilitated by conceptual
design workshops in which the architects and the
clients exchanged ideas using BIMx Pro, virtual
reality viewers via iPhones and more traditional
look and feel palettes of materials and precedent.
In this digital era, technology is often blamed
for the alienation of people from one another as
our interactions become more and more intimately
connected to devices rather than to people.
Lion's Pride