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!

Understanding Place

One of the earliest steps in our design process is illustrating the forces that will affect a future design. It is imperative for us to understand how a new project will interact with its surroundings, make us feel, appear throughout the season, and accommodate the needs of future occupants.

Deep Energy Retrofit at Buffalo State College

The next wave of environmentally-conscious design goes beyond merely reducing negative impacts to buildings that positively contribute to the environment through regenerative design.

Modular Design

Simplicity in design does not exclude deep thought and strategic planning – modular design is a manifestation of this idea and is a level of design thinking that can be utilized at any scale.

Making Place

There is no placemaking without people. As we move together toward a post-covid era, what new factors will impact our sense of place? The tools of placemaking were important before, and now they are crucial to how we experience our environment.

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.

Library Design in a Changing World

With the ever-evolving nature of teaching and learning, the academic library has already undergone a great transformation by adapting to new paradigms present in higher education. The proliferation of digital resources and scholarship has meant that access to information is everywhere and even more critical in the current circumstances.

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505 Franklin Street Buffalo, NY 14202

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303 West 13th Street New York, NY 10014

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+ 1 716 883 5566

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+1 212 674 1457