Our technology-enabled “living masterplan” approach pairs design iteration and project delivery with data every step of the way, resulting in a more efficient process, better design outcomes, and more agile implementation.
Data & Design Strategy
Better design starts with better insights. Our team of designers, planners, data scientists, and software developers harnesses data and technology to ask smarter questions and uncover deeper insights. Working at the intersection of research, innovation, and professional practice, we empower strategic design through cutting-edge tools and analysis. Our offerings include: Design Thinking Tools, Community Engagement, What-if Modeling, and Data Visualization and Storytelling.
We use technology to design places that are better for the environment and for human comfort and experience. Our approach prioritizes passive design strategies, regenerative landscapes, and nature-based solutions that mitigate climate risks, sequester carbon, and restore natural systems.
We leverage technology to establish deep, authentic relationships with the people we design for, resulting in places that are more responsive to their needs. Together, we create more inclusive, dynamic engagement and design.
We use data and technology to enable collaborative, agile space planning. Our work links space planning, design, financial planning, and academic planning to create high-value solutions for our clients.
Sasaki's new tool allows users to estimate embodied carbon during crucial early design stages
Based in New York, Siqi Zhu leads Sasaki's planning and urban design practice in the city to create more responsive, resilient solutions that are grounded in strategy.
Supporting more informed dialogue around potential planning and design directions, we create detailed views into future scenarios through modeling building performance, growth projection, spatial planning implications, financial and scheduling trade-offs, and more.
To facilitate better understanding of data and insights among diverse stakeholders, we create intuitive data visualizations and story-telling platforms that are interactive and easy to understand
Technology can help people make better decisions. Our powerful design thinking tools enable our teams to gain insight and quickly iterate on potential solutions to optimize design outcomes and performance.
Sasaki's custom DASHI tool gives the University of Colorado Boulder flexibility to adjust to the campus’s ever-changing needs
Assessing and optimizing space across an array of colleges to align visions in anticipation of a University-wide framework plan
Data Analyst & Urban Planner Surbhi Agrawal has built a career in urban innovation and equitable access. In turn, she’s shaping the future of how we connect and come together.
Virtual Reality offers Boston an interactive vision of the new Boston City Hall Plaza, gives clients insight into new arts and dining facilities
Corporate leaders need real-time input to make key decisions around workplace space needs. Nimble data dashboards are helping them scenario plan.
A discussion with the Urban Land Institute about weaving data, virtual reality, and analytical tools into all stages of design and development.
Ken Goulding, Raj Adi Raman, and Scott Penman, discuss machine learning’s impact on architecture and design