pharmaceutical industry.
The project is also delivered as an open source, web app and as she says, ‘enables architects, teachers and pupils alike to quickly and easily configure early stage design proposals...’.Digital school models feature ‘clusters’ of rooms, which adhere to Department for Education area/adjacency requirements.
The goal is to achieve compliant school design from the outset, whilst simultaneously maintaining flexibility and creativity.. An openness and willingness to share ideas is important to Cresser-Brown, who recognises the unique position the industry currently finds itself in resulting from new digital and manufacturing opportunities.She expresses a desire to help create a better built environment and enthuses about the fact that both of these existing projects are being released on an open source basis.‘Sharing current thinking and best practices freely,’ she says, ‘is the best way that we can shape the industry as a whole.’.
Bryden Wood’s Head of XR + Interaction, Director Elite Sher, says her focus lies in ‘combining software engineering and design, in innovative and creative applications, using cutting-edge technologies.’.Sher is a finalist in the ‘Best Woman Software Engineer’ category of the WICE Awards and has an MSc in Adaptive Architecture and Computation from UCL, The Bartlett.
It was there, she says, that she gained ‘theoretical and practical experience dealing with robotics, AI, machine learning, software engineering, and creative computation.’.
A founding member of Bryden Wood’s Creative Technologies team, Elite says she initially worked to develop ‘bespoke tools focusing on data collection and visualisation.’ She subsequently expanded her experience as a lead developer in the R&D department for HOK and perfected her software development skills as a full stack developer for a FinTech start up, developing both front and back end.When PRiSM launched, we deliberately described it as a broad but shallow tool.
It didn’t develop the design for you, but it had lots of applications.Architects can use PRiSM to learn more about PMH techniques, including their rules, opportunities and constraints.
Local authorities, housing associations and developers can use the app to drive standardisation across their estates, using a pattern book of apartments to deliver projects more efficiently, and achieving benefits like standardised maintenance regimes.Manufacturers benefit from learning more about the types of buildings architects working with MMC techniques can design.