Bjarke Ingels joins Floored as advisor

Floored, a provider of 3D visualization and space planning software for the real estate industry, has named Bjarke Ingels as an advisor to the company.

Ingels, the founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), is a world-renowned architectural visionary. His firm is in high demand for some of the most signature projects, notably 2 World Trade Center, Tishman Speyer’s “The Spiral” at Hudson Yards, and Google’s new headquarters.

In joining Floored, Ingels is putting his name and time behind Floored’s products like Protofit that better serve the architecture and commercial real estate industries. Protofit allows both architects and non-technical users to customize commercial office floorplans and view them instantly as interactive 3D models.

Since launching Protofit in October 2015, Floored has signed up dozens of leading commercial real estate owners and brokers as Protofit subscribers. Firms such as Related, Empire state Realty Trust, Two Trees, RXR Realty, L&L Holding Company, CBRE Global Investors, Cushman & Wakefield, Sage Realty, Equity Office, Colliers International, Brookfield Property Brokers, TIAA-CREF, and several Fortune 500 Companies joined the company’s platform in 2016.

BIG currently relies on physical, analog models to communicate about spaces and buildings. Ingels supports a future with tools built to help designers iterate quickly and accurately and in a digital and interactive format.

Protofit automates repetitive tasks like drawing office desk layouts, and allows the designers to focus on the concepts and vision for spaces. Floored continues to focus on developing technology that improves both the creation and consumption of visual information used to describe space.