Space planning and office layout in 3D

Space planning: start from what exists

Space planning means deciding how premises will be occupied: how many workstations, which rooms, which clearances, which furniture. Most projects run into the same difficulty: nobody has a reliable survey of the existing conditions. The original plans are out of date, partitions have moved, and every question sends someone back on site with a tape measure.

The 3D twin solves that problem in a single visit. The Matterport Pro3 camera photographs and laser-measures every room; the assembled model is online 24 to 48 hours later in most cases, with floor plan view, the dollhouse, the measurement tool and the 2D floor plan of every floor. From there, the architect, the designer, the furniture supplier and the manager all work on the same premises, without travelling to them.

Office layout in 3D: count, measure, compare

Count and measure

Floor plan view shows every floor from above, furniture in place: that is where you count the workstations, meeting rooms and seats. In the tour, the measurement tool gives the width of a corridor, the ceiling height or the clearance behind a workstation, to ±20 mm at 10 m according to Matterport. 3D measurements and areas are included with every tour.

One scenario per View

According to Matterport, a single tour can have up to 10 Views, each with its own information tags and access settings. Each layout scenario becomes a View: the tags show where the new workstations would go, the partition to take down, the room to create. The team compares the Views, comments, decides. The twin does not draw the new furniture itself; it shows the real space in which the designer will place it.

The visual furniture inventory

Before a move or a team merger, the twin serves as an inventory: what you keep, what you move, what you replace, seen in context rather than in a spreadsheet. A tag on a workstation or a cabinet records its condition or its destination.

From the twin to the drawings: the space-planning survey

The 2D schematic plan is enough for most discussions. When the designer or the architect needs a technical base plan, the same scan provides the MatterPak (point cloud, mesh and high-resolution plans, $79) or DWG drawings, ordered based on floor area and billed at cost with no markup. For an E57 point cloud or a Revit model, see 3D building scanning.

According to a case study published by Matterport, the American contractor Gilbane, a Matterport customer, reviewed 21 sites in a single four-hour meeting thanks to its digital twins, and estimates it saves 25 to 30% in time and costs. The order of magnitude varies from one project to the next; the principle does not change: fewer trips, and decisions made in front of the same model.

Space reconfiguration in Montreal and across Quebec

Offices, clinics, retail spaces, schools, municipal buildings: the need is the same everywhere. Based in Boucherville, on the South Shore, we scan in Montreal and across Quebec; beyond about 100 km from Montreal, a travel fee of $0.73/km applies, shared between the sites of a single trip. Once the project is delivered, the same twin goes on serving the management of the building: see the building digital twin and our architecture and construction sector.

• A single point of contact, Marc Durand Bréard, from the quote to the one-hour training session included.
• More than 1,000 tours published on Google Maps since 2015.
• Matterport Service Partner, equipped with the Pro3 camera.
• Service in French, with scans possible in the evening and on Saturday mornings.

The space-planning survey starts at $395, 2D plan included. See all our prices, our portfolio, or write to us for a 30-minute call.