Headquartered in Houston, Texas, the firm employs more than 600 professionals and operates 20 U.S. and five international offices.

Passion Behind Design: Pushing the Design Envelope

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Engineers, innovators, and creators of high-performance, resilient structures, enclosures, and infrastructure worldwide.

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ART+COM Studios uses new technology to design and develop media installations and spaces.

ART+COM Studios

SoomeenHahn Design is a London based design studio that focuses on design research and practice.

SoomeenHahm Design

A concrete exploration using 3D printed molds with a goal to see how delicate, detailed, and finite concrete can get while still being structurally rigid. Ultimately the focus was to create a piece of furniture that embodies an optimal balance of delicateness in form and strength in dentistry. Using 3D printing as a new way to realize concrete through its ability to make molds, we have been interested in pushing the concretes’ natural limitation through fine geometries.

Delicate Density

Rhinoceros 3D is a 3D computer graphics and computer-aided design application software developed by the American company Robert McNeel & Associates. Utilizing NURBS mathematical modeling to produce precise representations of free-form, curving surfaces, Rhino is used in industries such as architecture, industrial design, automotive design, product design, and multimedia and graphic design.

Rhino 3D

What is Maya?

Maya is professional 3D software for creating realistic characters and blockbuster-worthy effects.

Bring believable characters to life with engaging animation tools.

Shape 3D objects and scenes with intuitive modeling tools.

Create realistic effects—from explosions to cloth simulation.

Maya

Grasshopper is a visual programming language and environment that pairs with Rhino 3D, a software program also developed by Robert McNeel & Associates. Grasshopper allows users to build algorithms by dragging and connecting components on a digital canvas. From parametric modeling and fabrication, lighting performance analysis, to building energy consumption, Grasshopper provides an intuitive way to explore design without requiring programming experience.

Grasshopper

This project addresses the rapidly evolving needs of the city’s most innovative commercial tenants and the future of work by repositioning all of the building’s public spaces. Boldly current and reflective of complex fabrication techniques, the spaces are now centered on the human experience and are ready to support the city’s meteoric growth as a high-tech hub.

The design elements directly reference motifs found in and around Seattle, from wood ceilings that emulate the motion of wind and waves to a fractal travertine wall inspired by the region’s tectonic activity. They all work in harmony to shape a series of calming spaces for tenants and visitors to work, recharge, and connect.

Advanced technologies, such as VR modeling, were at the core of a design process through which the team developed a highly tactile and emotional experience for the spaces. The fractal wall was computationally designed and engineered, and each of the 1,400 stone pieces used in its construction was optimized.

Two Union Square Repositioning

Autodesk Revit is a building information modeling (BIM) software used by architects, landscape architects, structural engineers, NEP engineers, designers, and contractors. 

Revit

Work Intuitively: Create stunning visualizations instantly by using a plugin that requires no prior specialized knowledge to use. Click "start" to see and experience your designs like never before.

Avoid Disconnected Workflows: Design, document, and visualize simultaneously from one model. Instantly see changes made in your design model in Enscape.

Make Better Decisions Faster: The ability to see and evaluate design decisions in real-time allows you to iterate more effectively and easily share the results with teams, partners, and clients.

Set Your Firm Apart: Bring your designs to life with stunning quality. Enscape has full VR support, multiple panorama export, web standalone and desktop standalone app, panorama tour, and video animation to help clients understand the full scale of your project through an immersive environment.

Used by renowned architecture firms in over 150 countries, such as Foster + Partners and Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), Enscape brings your designs to life and enables you to make informed decisions and design intuitivel

 The real-time integration means there’s no need to sync models or import or export files. You can even design via the rendering window and have it reflected live in your model.

Access more than 392 predefined high-quality materials in the Enscape Material Library. 

Fine-tune materials in the Enscape Material Editor. Make use of height maps and adjust textures to raise the level of realism in your visualizations.

Choose from multiple versions of the same asset to convey the right story. 

Simulate lighting situations at different times of the day or check the artificial lighting concept in your building at night.

Render in different styles: White mode, Light view, Polystyrol mode, and Outline.

Create stunning renderings for client presentations 

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Enscape

Enscape is a real-time rendering and VR plugin that empowers design workflows by turning building models into immersive 3D experiences.

Unity Reflect is a design review and coordination solution that connects all project members on one immersive, collaborative, real-time platform regardless of device, model size, or geographic-location

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