BIM Design

UNStudio

KNOWLEDGE ARCHITECTURE FOR A LIFE (CYCLE)

EDUCATION EXECUTIVE AGENCY AND TAX OFFICES

While some of the practices included here have an overall strategy towards the digital, project development and integration is unique at UNStudio, or United Network Studio, as the practice is interested in the adoption of new digital tools and building information modelling as a way of producing novel possibilities and generating new types of architecture. The practice resists having an overall strategy to digital design techniques as its clients are increasingly diverse and bring different opportunities, however, the ‘use of three-dimensional modeling in UNStudio’s practice has been central to the active development of ideas and concepts, along with creating complex and challenging geometries and organizations’.¹

1 UNStudio, attainability diagram, 2011By bringing together distinct Knowledge Platforms established at UNStudio – the Intelligent Operations Platform (Program), the Architectural Sustainability Platform, the Intelligent Material Platform and the Smart Parameter Platform – the practice finds a balance between design research and the construction of its projects. In describing these operations, the firm uses the term attainability.

UNStudio is a group of architects, engineers and technical consultants with offices in Amsterdam and Shanghai. Led by partners Ben van Berkel and ...