“So in the second round, we realized we needed to visualize solutions more, and in a way that is non-specific and can be applied to any project,” says Corney. It was also important that PreDesign wasn’t forcing the architect to go down a particular path. “In the first round of feedback, people were saying things like ‘this is too complicated,’ ‘this is too scientific,’ or ‘it doesn’t feel like me,’ ” says Corney. The beta group of over 100 architects found it challenging. In Trimble’s earliest attempts at PreDesign, they started with a much more technical product, but not as technical as Sefaira. These folks are naturals for Sefaira’s vast power and more complex user interface. Specialists and larger firms have staff with building science degrees, sustainable design degrees, and computational-design degrees. Sefaira was already a tool that the average architect didn’t feel technically capable of managing.
More than that, they felt there was an opportunity to provide a low-barrier entryway to bringing climate science into the design process in SketchUp and draw the dots for them since architects weren’t doing this or thinking about it. “Drawing the dots between what the charts are telling you and what the design is about was missing,” says Corney. Still, in talking to actual designers, you soon find out the designs can have less connection to the data than imagined. What we observed is that in talking to architects and watching them start their projects, there wasn’t much research at the start as we had expected.Ĭorney noted that if one looks at the top ten AIA winning projects, one will find all kinds of energy-related data, wind roses, and similar charts. “We were quite surprised at how many designers immediately start doing design in 3D in SketchUp and how they didn’t have the tools available to do some basic consideration of climate and how it affects their buildings.” “What we observed is that in talking to architects and watching them start their projects, there wasn’t much research at the start as we had expected,” says Andrew Corney, who formally was Product Director for Sefaira. While tech-forward and large firms use Sefaira’s technically advanced (but complex) tools, most architects need a more uncomplicated pathway to implement climate-responsive design strategies in their day-to-day work. One reason Trimble developed PreDesign is to bring climate science down to the level of the average architectural practice. It does not technically work on your SketchUp models or use them in any way in its generative data and calculations. PreDesign operates at an entirely different level than Sefaira.
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And to make things more interesting, Trimble has developed PreDesign as a set of climate-responsive design technologies packaged into a web app that comes with SketchUp Pro licenses. Sefaira is back to being a separate product. SketchUp Studio-SketchUp Pro with Sefaria features and technologies included-no longer exists as a product. Since our last look, Trimble has modified SketchUp’s product offerings. We talk to Andrew Corney, Product Director, Architecture and Design Division, SketchUp, about the PreDesign features in this in-depth feature. We last did a product review of SketchUp Studio for the 2020 release. IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, TRIMBLE’S SketchUp application has been on a tear with new features and technologies.
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