Role Of Design In Buildings Underestimated
<strong>Mohit Arora, Director, Supertech Limited</strong> While design as a specific field of activity has only evolved over the last 150 years, after the industrial revolution, its importance cannot be overstated. Going far beyond its role in industrial activity, design has now taken within its
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Jul 2, 2020 6:53 AM
Mohit Arora, Director, Supertech Limited While design as a specific field of activity has only evolved over the last 150 years, after the industrial revolution, its importance cannot be overstated. Going far beyond its role in industrial activity, design has now taken within its ambit almost every aspect of society – spiritual, cultural, social or economic. Design, and at some level the designer, have become indispensable to the everyday progress that mankind is making. Design has been one of the many critical requirements enabling any step forward taken by mankind. It must then be seen as a form of human intervention needed to define our surroundings or environment. It is a tool that can be used in the service of good or bad intentions. In architecture, the designer or architect, is the one that takes an empty space and moulds it into what the client requires it to be. The design must take into account the aspirations of the builder but also bring in the pragmatic concepts without which the structure would be unsustainable and likely, short-lived. Designing a building – a home, office, factory, warehouse or any kind of structure - requires a huge quantum of foresight. The designer has to take into account not just the best use of the space at hand, but its relation to the surroundings, and even things like the end use and life cycle of the space being created. The architect has to consult a number of experts including various kinds of engineers, surveyors and specialists throughout the design process to ensure not just long term sustainability but also elements of energy consumption and accessibility. In a bid to drive sustainability and create more future proof structures, Indian architects are increasingly turning to new materials like bricks made of waste materials that do not decompose easily or even ceramics with gels and those that are biologically produced. The usage of new technologies like Artificial Intelligence and machine learning technology at the design stage is enabling many of the earlier rules of construction to be bent, and in a few cases broken
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