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Technology is the key to success
Design

Alan Lamont, Bentley Systems

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Subjects
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Advantages of using 3D in design vs 2D
Effect of BIM technology on design culture
Design collaboration
BIM technologies: evolutionary or
revolutionary

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We have been doing this for 1000 years or more

We have had the ability to work with BIM for nearly 28 yrs
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3D vs 2D design
• A designer is capable of imagining the design in it‘s
entirity and this requires thinking of a design in it‘s
spacial context.

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• 2D drawings represent what the author „believes“
they understood from the design specification

3D model

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• The guy on site then builds their interpretation of
what they saw in the drawing.....

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Clash Detection (within AECOsim Building Designer):

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Clash detection (in the field):

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Tools of the trade
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Sketching
Design „exploration“
Design intent
Analysis (Structural, Energy etc)
Design detailing
Quantities
Construction detailing
Manufacturing
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Zaha Hadid

Gehry

Foster

KPF
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Final Building

Sketch Design

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Complex designs require multiple
products

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How has this affected the design
culture?

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Fuzzy
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Sketch design

Supporting a workflow

Design iterations

Handover to „BIM“

Detailed

Construction/Manufacturing

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Fuzzy
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Sketch design

Supporting a workflow

Design iterations

Handover to „BIM“

Detailed

Construction/Manufacturing

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Foster & Partners
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Generative design with Bentley Generative Components

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Thematic Visualization

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Cox Architect & Arup
Square Stadium, Melbourne
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Cox Architect & Arup
Square Stadium, Melbourne
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HOK & Buro Happold
Langdowne Road Stadium, Dublin

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Innovation in Generative Design

ArtScience Museum
Singapore
Arup

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Arup – Art Science Museum

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What about operations?

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Thank you

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