ATLV
is a computational design firm based in Los Angeles.
The firm explores the frontier of computational design technology
through design practice and research in contemporary architecture
and spatial design.
Design + Research
We attack the challenging area of design where no existing design tools
can work efficiently, with integration of technological innovation and
design process.
Technological innovation gives us opportunities to see and think design
problems in new perspectives and opens up new possibilities of design.
Our concurrent practice of developing tailored software tools and
examining design problems enables us to pursue those possibilities.
The target area of our research includes not only algorithms and software
but also electric and electronic hardware and robotics to seek
broader integration of design, fabrication and interaction process.
Consultation
We provide consultation to other design firms to
assist and enhance their design process with our expertise
in computational design.
We examine design tasks in clients' projects and provide
design services with computational techniques,
complex parametric modeling automation,
rationalization with algorithmic and mathematical operations,
software tools tailored for specific tasks in their projects,
and/or
assistance and training to their designers to perform
computationally enhanced design process.
Those computational technology and expertise provide
clients benefits of
advancement of design excellence by
larger number of design iterations and improvements
accelerated by high speed feedback process with computation,
flexibility in design process to respond quickly to
various changes in a design and business environment
with clients, consultants and contractors,
and
optimized rationality of architectural geometry
to minimize construction cost in value engineering process
without sacrifice design excellence.
