Daniel Ayars

About Daniel Ayars

With 11 years of experience in Seattle and six years in Shanghai, Daniel Ayars is a design leader in mixed-use developments around the world. Now based in Columbus, he has built an international corporate and commercial practice with a local presence in Central Ohio.As the design leader for NBBJ’s Shanghai office, he integrated urban design, planning, landscape and architecture to deliver large-scale mixed-use developments at high quality despite tight schedules. This has given him an insight into how live-work-play environments influence the urban realm beyond the boundaries of their given sites. While leading the Shanghai studio he focused the design culture around computation and data-driven design. Now he applies his expertise in the United States and abroad, with a value-based approach to commercial projects that seeks first to understand the client’s goals and constraints, then to identify strategic, unexpected opportunities for greater return. His personal design aesthetic tends toward clean and simple lines, innovative materials use and the interplay between interior and exterior, always with an emphasis not on a building’s form but on the human experience within and around it.

Experience

1. Principal Architect

   NBBJ Design

   Jun 1998 — Present

   With 11 years of experience in Seattle and 6 years in Shanghai, Daniel Ayars has become a design leader in mixed-use developments around the world. Now based in Columbus, he is building an international commercial practice with a local presence in Central Ohio.As the design leader for NBBJ’s Shanghai office, he integrated urban design, planning, landscape and architecture to deliver large-scale mixed-use developments at high quality despite tight schedules. This has given him an insight into how live-work-play environments influence the urban realm beyond the boundaries of their given sites. While leading the Shanghai studio he focused the design culture around computation and data-driven design. Now he applies his expertise in the United States and abroad, with a value-based approach to commercial projects that seeks first to understand the client’s goals and constraints, then to identify strategic, unexpected opportunities for greater return. His personal design aesthetic tends toward clean and simple lines, innovative materials use and the interplay between interior and exterior, always with an emphasis not on a building’s form but on the human experience within and around it.

Education

• The University of Kansas

  Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.)

  1992 — 1998

Skills

• Design Research
• Rhino
• Mixed-Use
• Bim
• Sustainability
• Green Building
• Revit
• Submittals
• Urban Design
• Sustainable Design
• Leed Ap
• Architectures
• Sketchup
• Interior Architecture
• Landscape Architecture
• Rendering
• Leed
• Architectural Design
• Autocad Architecture
• Residential Design
• Interior Design
• Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (Leed)
• Architecture
• Comprehensive Planning
• Space Planning
• Construction Drawings
• Building Information Modeling (Bim)
• Furniture