In a recent Architect Magazine article, “Nine Tech Strategies for Architects for 2019,” digital design leaders from firms across the country share their tech strategies and resolutions for 2019. Payette Principal and Director of Building Science Andrea Love shares how our firm has been utilizing big data to inform design and her mission to drive new research projects forward.
In my world of building science, we are at this interesting juncture in computing abilities and tool availability where you can now, say, set up an energy model in the evening to run thousands of simulation options and come into the morning to all the results. This poses a new challenge of how to investigate, present, and leverage data in order to make it most useful.
Andrea Love, Payette Principal and Director of Building Science
Read the article here.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center recently completed a new inpatient building in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical Area. A rich texture and palette of materials adorn the wall along the base of the building. Polished black granite forms the watercourse and seat walls, warm gray granite is used on the large wall panels, and an alternating texture of black granite, green glazed terracotta, and weathered steel is applied to the vertical recesses between the granite wall panels.
This design accentuates key elements in the landscape and introduces an intimate human scale and craftsmanship to the pedestrian realm.
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