Approach
Enable
Empowering architects to realize ambitious design intent with clarity, Insight and technical guidance.
Engineer
Delivering innovative and constructable solutions that perform in the real world—technically, environmentally and economically.
Elevate
Raising performance, collaboration and the Built Environment through design-driven technical Insights and client-focused partnership.
Our approach is just as unique as we are.
At studio|LB, we love to hear—on day one—all of our partner’s project aspirations no matter how wild ideas seem. We look for opportunities, rather than making compromises. We believe in imagining new solutions from engineering fundamental principles, meaning we do not approach designs the way a project was done before. Instead, we delight in the problem-solving process.
Deep Collaboration
We work hand-in-hand with design and construction teams during the earliest stages of a project to help raise ambitions from the outset. We engage early with all subcontractors to ensure input makes projects more constructable and cost-effective.
Collaboration with the studio|LB team at the very beginning of a project can accomplish higher quality architecture. The design can be better integrated with the structure and facade that can enhance rather than limit performance and form.
If the appropriate systems are selected early—when concepts are still fluid—it inherently reducing costs thanks to appropriateness and efficiency. In fact, structure—when considered proactively—can often become the architecture through its overt expression of architectural form or its articulation of structural details. With the facade, we can leverage material science and fabrication technology to achieve performance goals and articulate form.
Generating Creative Solutions
We pose and test a broad spectrum of ideas, systems, and materials and closely consider the following elements:
Strength, stiffness, ductility, weight and fire resistance
Performance and durability
Holistic integration of MEP systems
Aesthetics—especially in cases where the building’s structure is designed to be part of the architectural aesthetic
Constructability
Cost and efficiency
Fabrication technology and methods
Panelization and modularity
Sustainability, embodied, and operational carbon
Efficiently Bringing Ideas to Life
We use a wide variety of techniques and technologies to help teams visualize different options and efficiently merge design decisions and parameters into our workflow. As a team of engineers and architects, we thrive on optimization and solving teh challenges that designs present.
studio|LB’s computational design capabilities were born from the need to promote efficiency in our designs AND our design process. Our ability to merge form with analytics and export to graphic representations is an important aspect to our workflow and has enabled some of our most successful projects. We use advanced software including Rhino/Grasshopper and REVIT/Dynamo.
We utilize parametric techniques to optimize workflow and project development. This approach allows us to work more holistically—leveraging complex analysis to reveal system and material relationships and feedback loops.
Testing & Analysis
Better data begets better performance. Our team conducts THERM, WUFI, daylighting, and Finite Element Analysis to gather the necessary information to guide informed decisions on performance within structures and facades to elevate interrelated comfort, climate, and aesthetic goals.
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