In light of the current pandemic and the dire need for medical facilities of late, we decided to chat to experts in the field of hospital design, MBH Architects.
MBH Architects Pty Ltd South Africa was founded in 1998, with MBH International Sp z o.o. following in 2018.
MBH Architects is a well-established group of architects, with offices in Warsaw, Poland, as well as in Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa.
MBH Architects is unique as they are one of only a few architectural firms globally, with expertise in the highly specialized field of designing Hospitals and other medically related facilities. They are skilled to truly understand the complexities of the flow relationships between the different units and sections, in order to minimize cross infections and to maximize healing.
Although MBH Architects specialises in Hospital, Clinic and Pharmacy design, they also choose to undertake other building typologies, such as Mixed Use Urban Architecture, Industrial buildings, Commercial and Retail buildings, Residential buildings, Marine Architecture and Prefabricated Habitations etc.
We currently utilise Revit & Lumion Pro 11 in our design process.
We understood that Lumion could vastly improve the way in which we could illustrate a design concept to our clients and professional team members alike. It could also afford us a much more professional presentation platform that requires reduced rendering times.
Lumion has assisted us to clearly communicate design intent to clients, who can now positively contribute to the desired solution process.
Yes, we use it as a fully integrated design tool from the beginning of the project until presentation. We have our models on Live Sync on a semi-permanent basis.
Yes, clients really get a full perspective of the design.
If by partners you mean clients then yes absolutely. If by partners, you mean other professional team members such as engineers, then no, we do not really share the lumion models with them, as they mostly require CAD files to comment.
No, we post our videos directly to YouTube and upload static images to our website, forclients to view.
I am not familiar with this product. Definitely, something for us to look into if it could improve our client communication.
Yes, almost constantly.
We have not to date, but intend on getting into that soon.
We have not to date used drones, but it is certainly in our future plans.
Not to date, but we will in the near future.
We create the topography using the contours in Revit, which we then export into Lumion.
Yes we do
We use the latest version of Lumion Pro.
Not since we have Lumion.
Yes, we have created a number of our own finishes in our Lumion Library. With our understanding of our unique industry, we have learnt what it is that our clients need.
We do modelling in Revit and then place other families such as furniture etc from Lumion.
It definitely aids in speeding up the decision-making portion within the design process.
Yes we use this on all our projects.
Lumion & Revit have become invaluable design, presentation and marketing tools for MBH Architects International and of the better investments we have made as a company.