I will admit up front that I am not especially interested in the potential of Ladybug to visualize day-lighting and design facades. With that being said, plugins like Ladybug and DIVA I find are extremely useful in creating informed site design. With another of my studio mates, I started this term master planning the site by combining the best bits of each of the previously submitted plans to create a continuation of the chequered pattern of high-rise and low-rise that already exists in the original South Waterfront plan.
It is important to note, and this will be mentioned in a later blog post, that the buildings to the south of my site will be in the second, third, fourth and however many following phases after the construction of my building*.
*also, my building is non-existent so all this is just conjecture
