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Concierge in your pocket has risen by 55%
in the last 12 months, where Covid caused
many concerns about close contact and
general safety in interior spaces. Integrating
staff and customer needs has become a crucial
requirement, so concierge apps from a spatial
point of view must be explored.
Architects and designers have
opportunities to look at optimizing back of
house spaces to accommodate key functions
for the running of hotels.
If there’s a robot that’s there, how can it go
and assist the customer use it because there’s
got to be an integration of ambassadorship
for the hotel experience?
Back-end staff and customers can give
key insights that can help improve the
holistic hotel experience. UIX designers are
coming on board, how do we collaborate?
Robots have taken a completely different In aligning a digital experience, I think been proven effective in destroying the
form and they are not necessarily just we are almost at loggerheads with AI as virus (Covid-19)
moving around on their own. They’re human beings. Raising the questions: is We have to change the way we build. It’s
integrated with the space, they have smart AI taking over our world or are we going not just about design, it’s also about science
cameras and are programmed to also to work together, and is AI going to cause and technology assisting us moving through
measure distances and serve customers. the human race to become redundant spaces and moving through dimensions
Architects and designers can utilise eventually? that we’ve never been in before.
BIM (Building information Modelling) When we look at the next ten to forty The FAR UVC tech is maintenance-free,
and augmented reality to assist hotels to years there’s a lot of spearheading that’s autonomous and also senses who’s in the
structure and build up existing hotels in 3D going on in terms of the trends in the world environment with a motion sensor. My
form. Building this technology into apps and how virtual reality has moved from company has aligned with FAR UVC Africa
and for robots to better traverse the physical the physical space. We can’t shy away from to provide our clients with safe environments.
space with the use of the 3D models. things that aren’t going to be the same, and Human engagement is close to my
Robot pointers to consider on the how can we break new ground and can heart as an individual, I literally have
building footprint are items like parking we break new these technologies onto the goosebumps when I think about what’s
and charging dock placement, dimensions African footprint. happened globally to us as a human race
and collaborations with robotics companies Sanitisation technologies have moved too. and how we can no longer take the journey
and industrial designers. I have discovered FAR UVC technologies that we’ve been taking all along. We have
The data that designers and architects get 2020 here in South Africa: we have a to start looking at engaging and having
from creating 3D environments can provide company that’s spearheading sanitization real honest conversations around how we
more opportunities for the Architectural technologies. They are called FAR UVC move forward with the technology, with the
and Design Industry too. Africa. For new and existing facilities this know-how, with the scientists, with the data
The warranties and robotic information is a great way to sanitize spaces. We’ve seen analytics that we have, with governance and
become a back-end profile, and are that liquid sanitisation, spraying fogging new laws that are coming into play.
documented so that we know that from a can also come at a cost because it has to be New laws have to govern robots and how
maintenance point of view. How do new done regularly, whereas this technology is far can these technologies go, and how do
industries form from that? autonomous and easy to use. we come together to collectively structure a
How and when do we service them Creating safer existing environments is space in Africa that’s beyond its time.
and what happens when they get crucial in a time with a rise of super bugs, Creative collaborations with large and
decommissioned in the next ten to twenty such as Covid. Exploring new technologies, small companies give rise to great ideas
years? Robotics is a greenfield in Africa. even as architects and designers, that can and are a vehicle to create employment and
Mixed use between real environments allow our clients to open up and make it allow for businesses to thrive.
and augmented reality has become a new feasible for customers to come back into Robotics and Light sanitization are a
standard with the rise of augmented reality: their environments fifteen trillion-dollar industry as projected
experiences and getaways where you’d book Far UVC Lights are ultraviolet lights for the next 40 years.
and and get to see a hotel virtually - how that kill microbes and viruses at 222nm With these technologies we can allow our
do we integrate those elements within a wavelength. This has been tested by the businesses and the entire economy to reopen.
building and make them more tangible and CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial dw
more experiential. Research), locally in South Africa and has www.zingdesign.co.za

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