Architectural Design through Software Collaboration

Presented on January 9, 2015 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the School of Architecture, room 258.Pascale Sablan is an Associate at FXFOWLE Architects and creates sustainable and dynamic architectural designs for clients in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India, Azerbaijan, and Japan. She recently won the NOMA Prize for Excellence in Design in the unbuilt category for her proposed redesign of AMHE Haiti School Campus, which was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake.Runtime: 72:41 minutesThe presentation will discuss the design process and integration of architectural software–Ecotect, 3DMaxx, Rhino, Revit and AutoCAD–that was used to design the Museum of the Built Environment, one of eleven projects designed by FXFOWLE Architects (New York, Washington DC) within the King Abdullah Financial District, a new 55 million-square-foot mixed-use urban development currently under construction in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The lecture will also focus on the rational use of technology by the project’s diverse design team to advance architectural and environmental goals as well as lessons learned during the design development