Studio · for professionals
A development team, at one desk.
Land, plans, rooms, layers and numbers for a site: the first draft a site analyst, an architect, a quantity surveyor and a financier would make, in hours. In preview, by request.
The layers of a site
Layers
On a real site, from its own record
- Flood and drainage
- Terrain and contours
- Zoning and setbacks
- Climate
Modelled from ◇ assumedIllustrativeA made-up estate of about 2.3 hectares, planned by the site planner. Switch its layers off and on.
Drawn to scale
Room by room, side by side.
The house engine lays a home out from a brief; the drawing builders draw its plan, every front and a section, to scale. These are the sample's.
Modelled from ◇ assumedIllustrativeOne storey, its living rooms to the view: the first of the house engine's options on a made-up plot.
Sun and shade
Turn it. Move the sun.
Any season, any hour, at Vientiane's latitude: the shadows fall where they would.
At 10 am in March, shadows fall to the north-west.
In JDAI the design comes from the massing engine on the real site, its sun from the site's own latitude, and every figure beside it from an engine.
Who it drafts for
The whole team, at one desk.
- Site analystReads the land: its flood, ground and climate.The climate and flood record, from satellites and weather models, each reading sourced.
- Architect and plannerDraws the options and argues them.The massing engine and the estate planner: three options at least, on cautious zoning.
- Quantity surveyorPrices each option.The cost engine, part by part, as a range, at published and dated figures.
- Valuer and development managerTests the money.The returns engine, with costs up, prices down and a delay tried first.
- FinancierStructures the loan.The financing engine, on each lender's published terms.
- Report writerMakes the case.The investment pack, drawn from frozen figures, a draft until approved.
Feasibility grade: what a developer's team produces before deciding to spend money on a scheme. The professionals still sign the last mile, only on the deals worth doing.
From site to pitch
Seven stations, one site.
Each answers the next question an investor asks, and each says where it stands today.
- 01Built
Site
Where the land is, its lots, its ground, and the climate and flood record on and near it.
- 02Built
Ideas
Every building type the land could carry, side by side, sized on cautious zoning.
- 03Built
Design
Buildings on the land in plan and real 3D, with sun and shade for any season and hour.
- 04Built
Pictures
The design and the site's photos painted in a chosen style, always marked as an artist's impression.
- 05Built
Numbers
Cost, sales, profit and returns in kip and dollars, from tested engines.
- 06Built
Financing
Each option's loan on a lender's published terms, month by month, lenders side by side.
- 07Built
Pitch
The investment pack from frozen figures, a draft until a person approves it.
Every figure from a tested engine, with its version and its source.
Into the Engine Room →
Architects, developers and investors
Ask for a seat in the Studio.
A person reads every request. Today the Studio works on the land JDB holds; sites of your own come after the bank's clearance.