Your Role
As a Technical Designer with computational design capability, you will be a key member in the Borderless Studio advancing parametric design and computational analysis on a multitude of urban projects at various scales. You will be an integral part of the Design team, promoting, implementing, and elevating our BIM and digital modelling workflows and protocols in the studio. This unique position combines a direct involvement in prestigious projects in the region with a more strategic role where you will help advance the computational and parametric capabilities, tools and workflows of the Borderless Studio.
What You Will Do
- Participate in all project phases, including programming, conceptual designs, presentations, schematic design, design development, construction documents and production.
- Collaborate with design team, clients, consultants, contractors, manufacturers, and other vendors to meet overall project objectives.
- Produce graphic presentations, 3D renderings, plans, elevations, details, and sections through to detailed construction drawings.
- Utilize hand rendering techniques to communicate design concepts.
- Support project sustainability targets throughout project phases and actively engage in delivering them.
- Study sustainable design strategies in every project stage and investigate solutions to sustainable design challenges.
- Work collaboratively with the team to optimize sustainability performance through design iterations and research.
- Engage in climate focused analysis and studies for each project.
- Lead the implementation, management and execution of parametric and computational workflows on projects through various phases of the design process.
- Manage parametric and computational design workflows and solutions for project-specific and studio needs.
- Integrate Design Technology workflows, tools, and applied practices with project teams
- Model Management and additional analytics on design practices
Your Qualifications
Bachelor s degree in architecture or equivalent.6+ years of related project experience.Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.Outstanding graphic presentation and written & verbal communication skills.Creative, original thinking and technically biased, demonstrated through a strong creative and technical portfolio.Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines efficiently.Proficiency in modeling using 2D / 3D software, such as Revit, Octane, 3dViz, 3ds MAX, and / or Rhino utilizing V-Ray.Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign).Knowledge in sustainable design principles required.LEED, WELL, Fitwell, LFA or other rating systems accreditation preferable.Demonstrate a collaborative and integrated approach towards achieving high sustainability project goals.Motivated to grow knowledge and experience in sustainability on a personal and a team level.Your Design Technology Qualifications
Essential :
Good working knowledge and experience in Autodesk Revit for design authoring, documentation, data extracts and project delivery.Good knowledge and experience with the strategic planning, and setup of BIM projects.Good knowledge and experience with collaboration within the BIM context, including cloud-based markups, consultant coordination and clash detection.Deep knowledge of computational geometry (topology optimization, medial axis, point clouds, rationalization, Panelisation, Delaunay meshes, etc.)Deep knowledge of and proven practical experience in Computational Design applications such as Grasshopper, Dynamo etc.Experience / ability to build and deploy Grasshopper / Dynamo scripts & pluginsGood knowledge of Rhino Common, Rhino Compute, Grasshopper SDKs, and Revit API.Deep understanding of software interoperability routines.Desirable :
Basic understanding and familiarity with real-time rendering processes, and material creation & management within the context of integrated BIM and parametric workflows.Understanding of the capabilities and application of Information Management tools such as Aconex, Asite, Newforma, etc.Applications we work with :
Design Authoring - Revit, Rhino, Autocad, NavisworksCollaboration - BIM360Computational Design - Grasshopper, DynamoBuilding Performance Simulation - Insight, Sefaira, Diva, Ladybug toolsVisualisation Vray, Enscape, Twin motion, 3DSMaxGraphics & Productivity - Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office SuiteExperiential Unreal Engine, UnityDevelopment C#, PythonSkills Required
Graphics, Autocad, Simulation, Illustrator, Photoshop, Python