We gave each laboratory a consolidated, weighted score based on their effectiveness and considering any known issues (always using visualisations and the agreed common language).. We produced visual analytics of the entire web of processes on site in a way that was clear and, as a result, very powerful: it gave the client the tools to be able not just to see and understand their complex processes in their relative context, but also to discuss them with each other (regardless of specialism and teams) and senior management.. We could then map this analysis against a range of desired objectives and value drivers, to describe dependencies, adjacencies and requirements, and how to be able to measure outputs.
Still, Johnston acknowledges that the design community is currently meeting the idea of DfMA with more fear than excitement.. “The old cookie-cutter buildings get trotted out as a reason not to do DfMA,” he says.“There’s so much to get on with, there's so much to build.
There's so much opportunity in this space that designers should be seeing this as a phenomenal space to step into and an exciting place.But it doesn't feel like that's necessarily landing with the design community at the moment.”.Marks describes the world of the “new possible,” where everyone becomes a productiser making products, where owners become true influencers, and where some, like the ‘super subs’, general contractors, and builders, become systems integrators.
In this space, she says, it is only the architects who become more fully what they’ve always been and always set out to be..In this new world, she says, the architects will “truly become empowered architects, when you actually put real things in their hands…”.
Johnston, an architect himself, is keen to reclaim the role.
He feels these new tools will help architects improve designs, outcomes and generally “achieve better things for clients.”.– a. potentially dangerous blind-spot.
In all systems there are performance curves which demonstrate operational ranges where the most beneficial outcomes are achieved, these are always constrained at both ends.As density of traffic increase on a motorway, the volume throughput of cars.
and the car throughput spectacularly dives.commuters know all too well.