VU.CITY fOR ARCHITECTS
Set the bar high
Create ideas and test them – from one building to a masterplan. Share your vision, wow clients, and move from conception to completion with confidence.
HOW CAN VU.CITY HELP YOU?
Win work
Show design constraints and showcase opportunities in impressive detail. Test ideas in situ and share them with relevant stakeholders throughout the process. Deliver them interactively for submissions that wow and win.
Collate site information
Know your site inside out. Propose design solutions that meet - and even exceed - client expectations. Be sensitive to historic and social context. Upload files and 3D outputs to projects to share with your teams to expedite work.
Simplify communications
Communicate 3D outputs for your design narrative that everyone can understand in an instant. Share designs with all stakeholders throughout the project and receive comments and questions in one place. Enable meeting attendees to ask informed questions and give insightful feedback.
Make documentation stand out
Produce 3D site analysis diagrams and visuals for massing on master plan options. Capture a project’s wider context. Show neighbourhood and city at scale. Share all documentation in one project collaboration space with unlimited users and streamline feedback.
Speed up planning conversations
Share design drivers and documentation with planners, clients and politicians within an interdisciplinary platform that’s 100% neutral. Get buy-in early on. Review final options on design merit, not technical hurdles.
Collaborate & strengthen relationships
Take relationships with clients, project teams and planning authorities to another level. Build collaboration and trust in a shared journey. Make it easier for them to understand insights and explain the rationale to politicians and the public.
In your words
"At last, Farrells and London have their interactive digital model which we have all been waiting for - and it was well worth the wait! Masterplanning will rise to another level!"
Sir Terry Farrell
Founder - Farrells
“The NLA has been calling for a 3D digital model of London ever since we revealed the scale of tall buildings planned for the city. VU.CITY’s virtual London would do the things we asked for to assist the Mayor, local planners, professionals and communities to better understand the impact of new development and to generate a more positive and collaborative attitude to growth.”
Peter Murray
Chairman - New London Architecture
“It’s great to be able to view context and emerging adjacent planning proposals and has excellent compatibility with our software, it’s literally plug and play. The detail of the model is quite amazing and the ability to accurately measure relationships of other buildings, topography, and datums is a key feature. The variety of views that can be created within the platform allows for multiple testing of design options, it's a great design tool and can save valuable time, I particularly like the ZTV feature.”
Richard MacDonald
Director - Keppie Design
“Before, we would spend hours trawling sources looking for the historic buildings in our area, and even longer to take accurate measurements of surrounds. I cannot believe how much time this is going to save me.”
Oliver Bywater
Architect - Woods Bagot Architects
"The students were greatly helped by exploring their conceptual designs in their urban context by using VU.CITY’s accurate and immersive city model of London. It gives them greater understanding of their chosen sites and enhances their ability to portray their architectural ideas visually."
Professor Murray Fraser
Professor of Architecture and Global Culture, The Bartlett School of Architecture - UCL Faculty of the Built Environment
TOP TOOLS FOR ARCHITECTS
Create massing in context
Quickly assess multiple initial massing options for the right design decisions for the public realm.
Import, export and share
Achieve early buy-in by helping clients, project teams and planning authorities be crystal clear about your scheme. Viewing designs together, sharing feedback, and making revisions is a breeze.
Understand site opportunities and constraints
Get the full picture with data including daylight analysis, listed buildings, conservation areas, and protected views. (Data varies across our VU.CITIES to help with major early planning analysis factors.)
Camera tools and studies
Place a camera anywhere to see your scheme in context or how the view from any room would look.
Accurate measurement tools
Assess a scheme's suitability to its surroundings with AOD height tools and point measurements in a 15cm accurate digital twin.
Consented schemes timeline
Design with the current context and the future cityscape in mind. Check out major consented schemes within their setting and view key information including the developer and architect.
Scope, design and collaborate with VU.CITY
Everyone has the power to collaborate on the 3D outputs of VU.CITY. Seamlessly communicate with stakeholders, project teams and planning decision makers instantly to make better design & planning decisions, faster.
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