In the Architect Magazine feature 5 Steps to Make VR a Reality in Your Practice, Payette’s 3D Visualization Designer David Hamel discusses how we incorporated the new tool into our practice.
VR has become an important part of our design process, with more teams now utilizing VR at all stages of design. We have enabled teams to make adjustments with perfect accuracy when analyzing what a visitor will see when progressing through a landscape and over a very crucial pedestrian bridge. VR also gives our clients a chance to experience the space and better understand how it will function and what they will see throughout their daily use in the future.
In the Architect Magazine article, David encourages practices interested in getting started with VR to “jump in and put a headset on.” He also predicts Augmented Reality, with its potential to overlay BIM data on construction sites, will become even more important in the AEC industry.
Read the article.
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This Earth Week, we’ll be covering five landmark buildings exemplifying new approaches to building performance and sustainability.
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Klarman Building is the first hospital in the northeast to implement chilled beams in an inpatient setting. Early energy analysis demonstrated that the use of chilled beams would be the best way to reduce building energy use.
For this strategy to work, however, the peak thermal loads of the façades could not exceed the capacity of the chilled beams. An integrated design approach and in-house modeling allowed for constant tuning of the façade to optimize glazing, solar exposure and massing. The building orients glazing to face true north and south to minimize heat gain and maximize occupant comfort, resulting in a 15% reduction in peak solar load.
Beyond performance, the distinctive serrated terracotta façade reflects the scale and cadence of individual patient rooms, providing a delicate scale and texture to the façade.
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