We started Digital Blue Foam with the goal of doing our part as architects to make a more sustainable future accessible to everyone. That's why we have created a platform that unites designers, software, and data to make the building design process more efficient and intelligent.
As fellow colleagues teaching at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) in 2016, Camiel and Sayjel noticed a shift in the way buildings and cities were being designed and constructed the developing world. Architects were under tremendous pressure to deliver more projects in less time. At the same time, only a small group of firms were taking advantage of the benefits of digital working methods.
Hence, the company was born: Digital Blue Foam. It was founded on “fast, informed, designed”, the notion that architects need to move past intuition and leverage science and method to drive the best project outcomes.
Today Digital Blue Foam is part of a growing movement seeking to digitize the architecture engineering and construction industry to drive greater sustainable, higher design quality, and livability.
At Digital Blue Foam, we have developed AI-powered solutions to steer a desperately needed revolution in the building industry towards carbon-negative projects. Presently, designers use inefficient tools that do not take full advantage of the troves of data, and limitless computing power available online to drive sustainable output.
To address this, we at Digital Blue Foam use augmented intelligence — the sensitivity of designer intuition, multiplied by the brute force of machine intelligence — to step up the productivity of design workflows. Ultimately, our hope is to redesign the way architects and planners imagine spaces for current and future generations to live, work, and play.