According to Taylor Soumala, there are about Twenty Five ways Architects add value. Back in school it was not started with mitigation of risks but learning on how to adapt to improving and adopting to safety in design to reduce liability. Later we were left to achieve Sustainable Design while creating Tangible Aesthetics. This required improved responsiveness in universal design by ensuring functionality that leveraged on humanity’s need for equality as exemplified in accessibility and environmental consciousness of architects in depletable and scarce resources.
Therefrom we learnt our choices of materials impacted on saving costs not only economically but environmentally. This, we are learning, helps the profession to make a positive contribution towards global goals while increasing property values of the creations leaving or on our desks.
Such consciousness has also benefited fro m innovation to reduce project timelines as we the need for enhanced user experience takes centrality of architectural activity.
When we pay attention to regulatory requirements or precedents of their results, maintenance and operation needs of our creations become not only predictable but also reduced due to compliance of established standards envisaged for building efficiency.
Technology while providing a plethora for effective and efficient bulding need not impart pressure to digress from historical conservation and preservation of worthy and sound precedents of architectural historicism.
But there’s the question on health and wellness that follows further in embedding safety in built forms. There’s no doubt built environments regarding micro spatial configuration ought to achieve the objects of macro spatial configuration of the natural environment as is with climate integrity by reflecting on sustainable energy performance improvements to ensure reduced environmental impacts mainly to through improved and effecient use of public goods such as water and materials.
This, therefore underpins, public participation through engagement of hosting communities, streamlined stakeholders management and relevant authorities in not only achieving unique designs appreciative of technical innovations in recognition and projecting the desired brand,style presence for the clients, but also making a deliberate effort towards contextualized existence of buildings in their sustainable environment for the greater good of the planet.
