2021: Our virtual reality

It’s 2021! We’ve made it!

We’ve spent nearly a year working remotely, at full steam, supporting our clients with design solutions that are more critical than ever to navigate their workspace, shape the healthcare environment and reinvent (again) what the classroom can and should provide.

Every day, our team discovers fresh ways to communicate and predict how design decisions will affect the people who inhabit the places we design. Each floor plan and configuration has implications on what circulation, collaboration (and especially celebration!) can safely look like in this new future.
We have a long history of harnessing emerging technologies to communicate design concepts—from simply stated diagrammatic sketches to fly over animations and fully clash coordinated BIM models. We look forward to sharing some of these concepts with you here.

Here’s to a year of new beginnings!

Urban Design

Parks are the place! The great role of parks and public spaces in advancing health, wellness and inclusion in our communities has become even more vital today.

Adaptive Reuse

In architectural theory and design practice, buildings are treated as static objects. A design may propose spaces, finishes, and adjacencies that respond to one potential path for a building’s use.

Design Technology

A|r was one of the first firms in the country to integrate full scale Building Information Modeling (BIM) project execution into our practice. Our team leverages BIM capabilities to create highly intelligent models, providing sophisticated visualizations which inform and optimize design, budget and schedules.