Technology

XS CAD India Pvt Ltd is a computer aided design (CAD) services company based in Mumbai, India. It was set up to serve the architectural and engineering sectors with high quality architectural CAD solutions and engineering CAD solutions and is already established as one of the leading CAD services company's in India. Their architectural experience spans residential construction (concrete, wood frame and steel frame) as well as commercial projects while their MEP experience spans commercial, healthcare, education and leisure sectors. The Practice has been managing outsourced architectural and MEP CAD projects for the last ten years and have accumulated extensive experience in the key areas that have helped develop their company into a world class organisation.
XS CAD India Pvt Ltd works with leading design professionals for the provision of architectural CAD services and engineering CAD services – relying on their processes and established protocols for helping to manage workflow and communication to deliver state-of-the-art services.

Plasmatic Concepts is a multidisciplinary design firm based in Los Angeles, California headed by multimedia designer David Hartwell, architect Sarah Lorenzen, and motion graphics designer Andreas Kronenberg. Their work spans the diverse industries of motion graphics, built environments, and graphic design. While they have many interests, they share the ability to seamlessly integrate design and technology to create beautiful moving images and environments. The structure of their office is fully collaborative, integrating different cultural and technical perspectives, to offer their clients services that meet their particular needs and visions. To do this, they not only rely on their own unique mix of talents, we also draw from a remarkable network of graphic artists, producers, software experts, architects and planners. We strongly believe that novel solutions happen best through creative affiliations.
David Hartwell is co-founding principal of Plasmatic-Concepts. A British national, David was born and grew up in Switzerland where he graduated from Art Center College of Design’s European campus. He immigrated to the United States in 1991 to join Los Angeles-based Synapse Technologies, producers and designers of IBM’s UltiMedia projects: “Columbus: Encounter, Discovery and Beyond”, and “Evolution/ Revolution: The World Discovers Itself.” Columbus remains to this day the largest interactive multimedia educational project ever produced.
Sarah Lorenzen is a registered architect and an assistant professor at the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona. In 2004, she co-founded Plasmatic Concepts, a multi-disciplinary design firm pursuing projects in urban research, environments and multimedia design. Recent projects include a 4,500 sq. ft. bamboo pavilion for an expo in Mumbai, and a short film about current problems facing the film industry working in downtown Los Angeles. Sarah is currently working on a documentary film about the Los Angeles River Revitalisation Project, which is being funded by the Graham Foundation.
USING DIGITAL VIDEO TO IMPACT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
As the creation and dissemination of film has become more democratic, a clear strategy has emerged to use this representational technique to influence the public’s attitudes towards the built environment. Digital film has become the populist medium of choice; its growth tied to all manner of digital innovations: the Internet, non-linear editing software, and cheap video cameras.
Digital videos about the built environment have the potential to offer new reading of places and projects, and should be incorporated into our arsenal of design tools. Films can promote cleaner environments, better communities, and socio-economic progress by bringing to light relationships between politics, demographic data, and the built environment that may have not been considered in the past. Used as design proposals, films are quick to inform. They allow audiences to string together complex issues, and rapidly understand all that is at stake. Films also give viewers an intimate and emotional relationships with the subject matter, qualities other forms of expression are rarely afforded.
At Plasmatic Concepts we are interested in using digital film to describe the realities of our cities. These projects are a form of architectural research, a tool for public engagement, and an attempt to directly influence the built environment by inferring or implicitly describing urban design alternatives.

WSP Cantor Seinuk is an internationally recognised structural engineering firm based in New York and with offices in Los Angeles, London, Dubai, and associate office WSP Cantor Seinuk-India, a division of WSP-India Consultants Ltd in New Delhi. The company specialises in the design of building structures of varied types and usages. Over the past 30 years, the practice has received over 90 awards for engineering excellence from various organisations and has built a reputation amongst clients and building professionals for innovative and cost-effective design solutions. WSP Cantor Seinuk is part of WSP Group, a multi-disciplinary engineering company.
WSP Cantor Seinuk’s experience spans the full range of building types with a specialty in high-rise buildings in severe wind and seismic environments. Creativity and innovation are seldom more put to the test than when engineering high-rise structures. Acknowledged as the leader in its field and a highly innovative firm, WSP Cantor Seinuk approaches all its engineering commissions with the same underlying philosophy - to work closely with the client, other consultants and the necessary agencies to develop the most creative engineering solution of the highest quality, on-time, and within the economic framework of the project.

Thurlow Small Architecture (TSa) is a design research office begun in 2001 by Maia Thurlow Small and Andrew Thurlow, which operates both in the small-scale networks of Rhode Island and the evolving global discourse of architecture and landscape urbanism. Architects Andrew Thurlow and Maia Small want houses to be built the way car prototypes are, with milling machines and 3-D printers. They see digital manufacturing processes as an opportunity to define a new form of architectural ornamentation. Their projects use digital manufacturing and a structure’s program to determine surface shape.

A Partner at the firm, Maia Thurlow Small completed her Master of Architecture degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation in 1999 where she received the Henry J. Adams AIA Medal and the Fred H. Lieberman Award from the New York Society of Architects. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with Highest Honours and the Professional Promise Award at the University of California, Berkeley in 1994. She has also taught architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Rhode Island School of Design, Northeastern University, and the University of Tennessee.

Andrew Thurlow is currently a Partner at Thurlow Small Architecture and an Assistant Professor at the Roger Williams University School of Architecture, Art & Historic Preservation. At RWW, along with his previous six years teaching at the University of Tennessee, College of Architecture + Art, he teaches courses in Digital Manufacturing and Advanced Computing along with core and advanced level design studios.