We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer about their original and creative design work. is an award-winning creative designer, that makes our world a better place with their original works.
("") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work . Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
: We want to find way to combine live, work and play in one area so that people can reduce their reliance on vehicles.
: Our main focus is balance. The balance of residential area with work and play area, so that it is self sustaining. If one aspect of the design is off, it will defect this whole idea of live work and play within a 8 minute walking distance.
: We are spending the next 15 years building it in Canada.
: It took us about 6 months for the first concept and it is an on going revision in the next 15 years.
: It was commissioned but the design, ideas and the concept partly came from us and partly came from the client.
: The client is a developer and they are building the masterplan.
: We are architects who believe in green and sustainable living. Small design matters but large design like this can impact even more people.
: We conducted a global survey to see how our design can integrate work, live and play. It is a global collective idea.
: Technology company coming from the US and wanting to establish a Tech Center in Canada.
: We promote a car-less design with a 8 minute walking life cycle. Many city plan still relies on vehicles.
: We have a branding consultant and went through iterations of name selection with the clients. Wetown is to imply a city that is about We the people, and not car or something else.
: We use many software to analysis design, sun, water, utilities but the main model was done in Rhino.
: People can walk from live to work to play in 8 minute.
: We work with engineers, traffic consultants, economist, urban planners, landscape designers, branding designer, lighting designers and real estate agents.
: We need accurate calculation of area, resources consumption, phasing and benchmark. BIM helps us to calibrate all these data live.
: We conducted a global survey to see how our design can integrate work, live and play. It is a global collective idea.
: Time. We will use 15 years to finish this project but many things can happen in this time frame.
: For the city and our collaborators. Many people pitched in their ideas during the survey for free. Winning an award is the only responsible solution.
: We have to trust other consultants on area that we are not expert of. Believing that collaboration will lead to better work.
: Working on large scale project can be vague especially we have to predict the future, but it is very fun to be a futurist. Knowing people will one day live a car-less lives excite us on a daily basis.
