The book poses questions to the designer: Do we really spend the time to look carefully at the purpose?
Repeat clients may want to create their own configurators linked to their internal business processes, for instance, but the ‘Spatial Analysis’ work could help create a common ‘operating system’ for construction.Brick Link hosts thousands of third parties from which one can select by region, rating, price etc.
In a Platform context this would mean selecting the most local supplier, or one that best aligns to your choice of value driver.It’s a community; as well as a transactional marketplace, people can also share ideas and designs.As we move forwards, this will be vital to transforming construction; creating a community or ‘movement’ and sharing best practice will benefit us all.. IKEA enhancement.
Ikea is another excellent example of a Platform that most people are familiar with.As well as the physical components, Ikea have also created their own ecosystem..
So, while there is a ‘kit of parts’ that includes components common to lots of different pieces of furniture (fittings, hinges, drawer bases and sides, dimensional grids etc.
), the process has also been highly standardised: the format of the instruction book is always the same, and you only ever need a limited selection of common tools.. Ikea also have their own configurator for kitchens, ‘3D Kitchen Planner’, which allows users to create a 3D model which generates a list of components and a price.These functional spaces are theoretical zones which have no spatial definition, acting as a visual way of defining a group of processes which are related to one another..
Working with users to categorise the laboratory processes into these distinct functional spaces enables us to generate flow diagrams for the process..Lab design layout: identifying the flows.
As with any project, many stakeholders see a lab design layout as the primary early deliverable to determine that progress is being made on the project.It’s important to make it clear to the client team as well as the laboratory design team that the information needed to form the lab design layout is the priority.. Once we have determined the functional spaces within the lab, for example materials, people, and waste, we can arrange them into flow diagrams to create adjacencies between the different spaces of the lab, allowing us to create a rudimentary layout.
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