Give the design a basis before giving it geometry.

Bimiq turns the brief, site information, sources, program and constraints into structured context the design can actually use.

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Turn the brief into information the project can use.

The agent reads the brief and pulls out spaces, quantities, area targets and relationships. Anything the brief leaves out is listed as an open question.

The brief

“Design a mixed-use tower on a 98 × 70 m waterfront block in Dubai: 160 apartments, about 8,000 m² of offices, a podium with a food hall, and a public garden and plaza.”

Requirements, from the brief

160 homes: 40 one-, 80 two-, 40 three-bedroom
About 8,000 m² of offices, four suites a floor
Food hall, café, shop, gym, co-working, prayer rooms
Public garden and plaza
98 × 70 m waterfront block, Dubai

Open questions

Is there a plot affection plan for the site?
Is there a measured site survey?
What is the construction budget?

Every requirement keeps its source.

Regulations, guidance and client documents stay with the requirement they support, so anyone can check where a number came from.

Source · UAE Fire and Life Safety Code of Practice, 2018, chapter 3

Escape stair risers no higher than 178 mm, and treads at least 280 mm deep.

Summarized from the source

Requirement

Escape stair risers

Required: 178 mm at most
Design: 170 mm

A citation helps you inspect the basis of a statement. Interpretation and professional review remain part of the project.

Mixed-use tower, Dubai6 checks · 3 sources

Building class
Above 90 m is super high-rise
UAE Fire and Life Safety Code
143.5 m
Refuge floors
Required in a super high-rise
UAE Fire and Life Safety Code
Levels 17, 28
Escape stair risers
178 mm maximum
UAE Fire and Life Safety Code, ch. 3
170 mm
Escape stair treads
280 mm minimum
UAE Fire and Life Safety Code, ch. 3
280 mm
Green building
Silver Sa'fa mandatory requirements
Al Sa'fat
To confirm
Code edition
2021 Dubai Building Code listed as current
Dubai Municipality
Confirm at permit

Codes, fire safety and access, researched with the sources kept.

Regulatory research supports professional review. It does not replace it.

The Harbour Yard site plan: the tower, garden, plaza, car park and service yard between four streets — 440 × 400 m17.6 haNorth

Work with the real site.

Bring in the boundary, access, orientation and surroundings. The site stays part of the project while the building is designed and analyzed.

1
Residents' entrance
Off Al Marsa Street, with the plaza and café facing the harbour.
2
Visitor car park
Off Al Khaleej Street, with drop-off and accessible bays.
3
Service and loading
From Al Mina Road, beside the ramp down to the basements.
4
Public garden
Lawn, play and a reflecting pool in the sunny south-west.

The program becomes spaces, quantities and targets.

160 homes, 56 office suitesm²

Homes160 homes 13,840
Office suites56 × 141 m² 7,896
Food hallWith kitchens 1,424
Co-working1 floor 772
Shop and café2 units 461
Gym1 × 342 m² 342

Spaces, quantities and area targets from the brief.

Food hallKitchensSky gardenResidents' loungeLoading bayResidents' entrance

Connected
Close
Kept apart

Which spaces sit close, connect or stay apart, carried into the design.

Keep what you know apart from what you assumed.

A measured boundary, an assumed storey height and a chosen refuge floor are different kinds of information. Bimiq keeps them labelled that way.

Kind	Item	Basis
Fact	Block 98 × 70 m, 6,860 m²	Source: the brief
Fact	160 homes, 40 / 80 / 40	Source: the brief
Assumption	The site is level	Assumed, needs a survey
Assumption	Homes 3.2 m floor to floor, offices 4.0 m	Assumed from typical Dubai towers
Decision	Refuge floors at Levels 17 and 28	29 Sep · Above 90 m the tower is super high-rise
Decision	Service from Al Mina Road	Away from the residents' and office entrances

The research doesn't stop when the design starts.

The agent uses the project basis when it designs, checks and explains, and you can add sources at any point.

Check the escape stairs against the UAE fire code.

Found the two escape stairs, on every level
Risers 170 mm against 178 mm, treads 280 mm against 280 mm

All 4 stair checks pass

Bring the brief and the questions around it.

Bring the project, and Bimiq will take it from research to a model you can keep editing.

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