Renewing the models of process through digital design: the challenge launched by ADITAZZ with the “Small Hospital – Big Ideas” International competition

Abstract

The critical issues facing the construction industry, can only be overcome with a policy of actions and strategies that should be shared and implemented by all stakeholders interested in fostering innovation, that is the driving force of growth. Our role is to envisage new forms of innovation that might affect the “way” we conceive and design buildings as well the “way” we manage processes, enhancing the methodology and the means that have always been at the core of technological culture. In this context, it is interesting to evaluate the multidisciplinary digital design that the American group ADITAZZ has developed for a recent International Competition, sponsored by Kaiser Permanente. Aditazz Realization Platform (ARP) has allowed to produce multi-aggregation scenarios to meet the criteria of the Competition. This design, based on a digital and multidisciplinary culture is of great interest for the potentials of contemporary technology.