City of London Housing Design App
In order to assist the city of London and encourage constructions after Covid-19, the Mayor of London, with tech-led design practice Bryden Wood and leading residential consultancy Cast, have launched a new version of the housing design app PRiSM. Available at a city-wide level, PRiSM “is the lat
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Sep 29, 2020 4:15 AM
In order to assist the city of London and encourage constructions after Covid-19, the Mayor of London, with tech-led design practice Bryden Wood and leading residential consultancy Cast, have launched a new version of the housing design app PRiSM. Available at a city-wide level, PRiSM “is the latest development in London’s homebuilding strategy and the next step towards the technology and training that City Hall’s Covid-19 Housing Delivery Taskforce called for in July”. London, the first city in the world to make a freely available app of this kind, is hoping through this technology to encourage modern methods of construction systems. Combining the Mayor of London’s spatial planning rules with housing manufacturers’ expertise, the design app will “allow architects, planners, and developers to assess very quickly the viability of developing a site for modern methods of construction, using multiple permutations of housing type and size”. Finally, “homes built using modern methods of construction can be constructed twice as fast as conventional developments and to higher quality standards”. Using the latest digital technology and data to help design and build manufactured homes, the freely available application will allow users to share expertise and use technology to transform the design process and get the city building the homes Londoners need. The first step towards a digital planning approach, the new features allow users to design their housing scheme in a 3D environment. Moreover, it introduces details in building and neighborhoods, local amenities, ecology (location and species of trees) and weather patterns, road information, transport infrastructure, and site accessibility as well as land classifications. Moreover, PRiSM 2.0 offers now a larger pattern book of housing types such as new typologies, including mansion blocks, basement, and podium design functionality, apartment setbacks, manual core positioning, and visualization of windows and roofs.
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