COMMERCIAL DESIGN
COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES
The scope of services provided by Winds Architect & Interior Design is wide in range and depth. These
vary between relatively small and simple structures to projects of the greatest
size and complexity. The range of types of projects undertaken includes
academic, research, performing arts, sports and recreation, library, exhibition,
healthcare and residential uses.
Clients’ needs and aspirations are the foundation for the
services we provide. As a consequence, much preliminary work consists of
establishing both those aims, which in turn are translated into practical
solutions and then celebrated with an architecture that accommodates all
factors.
MASTER PLANNING &
URBAN DESIGN
The aim of master planning is to utilize each building
component as an incremental addition to a larger whole. In other words, each
building must satisfy two objectives – one to accommodate its particular
function to advantage and the other as a contributor to an aggregate that is
greater than the sum of its parts. Provisions for growth should be those that
add to the aggregate and enhance the form of the complex.
SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE
DESIGN
It is the inclusion of a social dimension that elevates
buildings to architecture and planning to urban design. It is
also the creation of a symbiosis between buildings and the open spaces they
shape that ensures their durability. Most of all, the open space should not be
decorative, but perform useful roles as meeting, performance, ceremonial or a host
of other public functions.
There is, in our view, a symbiosis between the architecture of the exterior and that of the interior. This is not to
equate the two in regard to their contexts, which clearly are different, but to
relate them in terms of aesthetic consistency. Both are in service to a greater
goal, which is to comprehensively serve the practical and symbolic aims of the
building, while catering to very different environmental conditions.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
As architects we are in a position to facilitate change and
set an environmentally responsible agenda to reshape the design process. Winds Architect & Interior Design have a design mandate to use less of
the world’s limited resources, and a responsibility to ensure we play a
significant part in the creation of sustainable projects. We see sustainable
design as a driver, as an integral aspect of the creative process – equal to
user satisfaction and contextual response.
Constant innovators of sustainable design solutions, Winds Architect & Interior Design pioneered the integration of
bio-filter wall technology in buildings, were early adaptors of geo-exchange
technology to reduce energy consumption, and promoted grey water recycling long
before building codes recognized the benefits.
Our insight on the impact of sustainable design continues to
evolve as we challenge the norms of energy provision and utilization in
projects. Through collaboration with our clients and consultant partners we
seek to offer innovative solutions to address the principles of social,
economic and ecological sustainability.
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
This is one of the services that explore the means to deliver
clients’ needs and aspirations. A thorough analysis of all relevant factors to
be taken into account is made in order to test the extent of constraints, the
potentials of the site, space program, available building technology,
sustainability and the means of utilizing the budget to maximum effect.
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING
Most functional programming exercises merely establish the
quantitative amounts of space required and perhaps the relationships between
program components. This, in our view, is only the first step in establishing a
space program. To achieve a result that is greater than the sum of its parts
requires the inclusion of the qualitative aspect of the space program: the
character of the place is as important as its physical dimensions. Qualities of
light, proportion, and materiality, are among the factors that ultimately
contribute to a building to facilitate that which otherwise would be only
functional in its most basic elements.
BUILDING INFORMATION
MODELING
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is 3D technology designed
to engage a wide range of users, including architects, consultants, contractors, constructors and clients in a
model environment. In addition to generating three-dimensional representations
of building schemes, BIM incorporates an extensive database that allows
coordination of all building elements through a single platform.
The program allows the coordination of all construction
systems, it provides functional operations tracking and cost control
monitoring, an ease of information exchange between consultants, clients and
authorities with building construction jurisdiction. Project coordination in
three dimensions provides all concerned the ability to monitor project progress
and thus allow any issues to be addressed early in the process, reducing the
opportunity for cost overruns during the construction period.
The office employs this system as appropriate to each project
we undertake.
RESTORATION, REVITALIZATION
& RENOVATION
Bringing new life and purpose to old buildings is a
challenging and rewarding task, not to mention a fundamental pursuit of
sustainable design. We have uncovered soaring wood-beam
ceilings in a college library, transformed a derelict brick factory into a
center for sustainable cities and are repurposing a textile mill into a Fine
Arts faculty. By reinterpreting buildings for contemporary purposes, we keep
alive a vital link with the past and blend new and old in the fabric of urban
life.
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