Session: Cross-Implementing Computational Design, Data Analysis and Visualization with BIM
Abstract: will be posted soon
PMI Talent Triangle Skill: Technical Project Management
Biography: Kristen M. Ambrose, AIA, CSI, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C is a registered architect with experience in designing higher education environments for teaching and learning. She is a Associate Principal at Ayers Saint Gross Architects and Planners, in Baltimore, MD. Ms. Ambrose has experience as Project Architect for all phases of design and construction and has served as Building Information Modeling or BIM Manager on LEED Certified Academic Buildings. Through her efforts facilitating interdisciplinary design consultant teams, she exercises an interoperable workflow across platforms to merge expertise and optimize design. Ms. Ambrose specializes in spatial data management utilizing digital design media through planning, programming and concept design. She has examined how architecture and the design process can support innovative cross-curricular learning in technology intensive fields. Ms. Ambrose has lectured on the integration of practice-based representation and documentation methods in academia as well as the utilization of BIM across the life cycle of the project from design and construction to facilities management. Ms. Ambrose teaches Building Information Modeling: Integrated Practice and Architectural Design Studio at the University of Maryland, College Park. This course seeks to explore the boundaries of BIM and its ability to visualize, document and coordinate space, understand the concepts and techniques of digital modeling and explore design opportunities in digital media at all phases of practice. The course focuses on ways of exploring architecture by developing collaborative forms of visual communication that re-prioritize ways of seeing, thinking and designing. As the profession struggles to redefine the media and method of architectural deliverables in the age of BIM, this course is uniquely positioned to examine and reflect upon the changing ethical and legal responsibilities such practice might have on the profession and illuminates the strategies contemporary architectural practitioners must employ to prepare for digital practice.
