siliconindia | | December 201919TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT DRIVING DESIGN & ARCHITECTUREBy Jasvinder Singh Khurana, Project Director, ARCOP AssociatesARCOP Associates is an architectural & master planning company offering a wide range of range of architectural services across residential, commercial, industrial & office buildings, hotels, cultural, educational & health institutions, and many other segments.T here has been significant advancement in tools and methods for conceiving and presenting the designs in the past 2-3 decades. Earlier, all drawing works related to design and construction used to be carried-out on the Drawing Board and was all hand drawn. In the mid 80s and early 90s, it was the start of the Computer Aided design (CAD) with its various software. These helped in standardizing the work flow procedure and also enabled optimization on the allocation of manpower on a particular job. There was an economy of scales, enabled production of technically accurate drawings and efficient faster delivery. The Digital era which accompanied also made it easier for sharing information among various participants and ultimately enabled the contractors to use the information efficiently in construction of buildings. Further advancements in the digital area with the advent in the 3D visualization tools of Sketch Up (in mid 80s) followed-up with 3Ds max (in the late 90s) enabled to digitally capture the designs. It helped enable the Client and Customer to understand the product better in three dimension than a two dimensional drawing (on paper), where the user had to have a fare bit of imagination to understand and comprehend the designs. Turn of the century brought further advancement and there were software like Rhino, Revit, Bim, Lumion , Trezi, and CXO INSIGHTSWe have a responsibility to the future, and one should amalgamate the modern tools and integrate the basic principles of culture and heritage in the design
< Page 9 | Page 11 >