Rethinking Design Experience
When RLF set out to rethink how clients and users experience design, the team recognized that traditional drawings and technical plans often feel abstract, especially for healthcare providers making mission-critical decisions. Architects and engineers can interpret them, but clients need more.
Meet Dr. Emmet
Dr. Emmet is RLF’s guide through design—an avatar within the Perspective Toolkit, a four-dimensional environment where users can walk their projects in real time. Imagine standing inside your future hospital, moving through corridors, or testing the flow of a waiting area before it’s built.
Dr. Emmet helps translate complex plans into intuitive journeys, connecting flat drawings to immersive 3D spaces. It’s design exploration that’s accessible, engaging, and collaborative. Instead of flipping through floor plans or trying to visualize from elevations, stakeholders can now step into their project and experience a virtually built environment.
Beyond Paper Plans
The Perspective Toolkit reimagines how clients and teams engage with design. Instead of flipping through drawings, stakeholders step into their projects through VR, mixed reality, and scaled projections. They can explore waiting rooms, patient spaces, or nursing stations as though opening day had already arrived. And when the meeting ends, models travel with them via mobile VR, Google Earth, and QR codes—keeping feedback fast and accessible.
Collaboration That Builds Confidence
Immersive charrettes bring planners, clinicians, specialists, and clients together to test, refine, and make decisions in real time. At the Orlando Health Level 1 Trauma Center Expansion, this approach helped navigate a highly complex project that required 14 construction phases to ensure uninterrupted care. Using a computational, three-dimensional design process, the team was able to show staff exactly how the space would function, test scenarios together, and refine details in real time. This co-creation not only minimized change orders and accelerated consensus but also built confidence among trauma staff in maintaining bed capacity and unit operations throughout construction.
Rather than reacting to drawings, stakeholders became active partners in shaping the environment—with Dr. Emmet guiding conversations around key questions: Will this space best serve patients? How will staff move between departments? Will the environment truly support healing and efficiency? With RLF’s Perspective Toolkit, the answers to questions like these emerge far sooner, enabling the entire team to “test drive” a design together.
Immersion Meets Intelligence
The Perspective Toolkit invites everyone into immersive design charrettes where medical planners, clinicians, equipment specialists, and clients “walk” side by side behind the scenes of a project. While Dr. Emmet shows how a design feels – like showing a nurse how circulation works in a new unit - AI analyzes data, surfaces precedents, and generates performance-driven options. Together, they merge intuition and proof, answering today’s questions while anticipating tomorrows.
Designing for Better Outcomes
Each walkthrough builds confidence. Each AI insight sharpens decisions. Together, they deliver:
• Engaged teams making better choices
• Reduced rework during construction
• Optimized spaces for caregivers and patients
For healthcare providers, this means fewer surprises, more input, and environments that truly support healing. It means providers step into their facilities with fewer surprises, caregivers work in environments refined by their own input, and patients receive care in spaces that truly support healing.
At RLF, innovation isn’t about technology for its own sake—it’s about tools that make design more human, collaborative, and purposeful. With the Perspective Toolkit, clients don’t just imagine the future of design—they walk through it, explore it, and learn to trust it.
And that’s how better design happens.
