Iteration – there needs to be a dynamic process: try, analyse, evaluate.
Our approach to developing a brief is to place it firmly in the context of being a part of the process which ends with a fully functioning hospital.The brief cannot – or should not – exist in splendid isolation.
It must take into account the massing of the hospital, the plant and M&E requirements, servicing facilities, the extent and location of the car parks.In our minds, the brief is intrinsically linked to the construction strategy.It is intrinsically linked to the overall feasibility of the building.. We are an integrated company, with multi-disciplinary teams working across all our projects from the earliest stages.
We have a strong background in technology, engineering and construction.The result of this is that we do not need to design to approximations and allowances – we can be precise from the outset.. Design from the inside out.
Fundamental to our design approach is that we start from the client’s requirements, which we establish during a series of early workshops.
Designing a complex project does not always evolve in a linear fashion, so to deliver a quality design solution we must identify in the early stages of the design the details (technical, organisational, etc.)Architects are important, but haven’t always been very good at making it obvious how important we are, and why.
Over the last decades, the profession has been fragmented and whittled away – losing influence and impact and getting tied up in bureaucratic systems and approaches that have more to do with easing procurement and dispersing risk than with getting the best results for clients.. We believe that the role of the architect is – or should be – pivotal to the success of built environment projects.That’s what the job is – or should be – and architects should be allowed to do their job to the best of their abilities.
We shouldn’t be packaged up and commoditised.We’re fighting back!.