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No. 9: Vinci A7769Corporate Campus Expansion |
10 Year Retrospective | No. 9 of 10 | Corporate Campus Expansion | August 2006.
This is one of my first multiphase Digital Worksites. The concept had only developed that season, integrating GIS (terrain/contour) data, which wasn’t as easy to grab as it is today. I used USGS and civil data and then strongly simplified variability. Some of the tools available in the applications we use today hadn’t been innovated, so it was a royal pain to achieve effects here that eventually became easier to produce and de rigeur. The background images derive from Terraserver, a source I’d used since January 2007. The project was modeled in AutoCad LT and ported to SketchUp 6, a process sequence Vinci LLC abandoned in 2008. So much of the process was very new. The 4d was produced using the 2006 methodology, one that would run through 2008 nearly unchanged. (Next Project→)
Successful Sitewide Show.
This project is interesting because it brought together precast and steel, scheduled nearly simultaneously. There was extensive sitework and master plan changes out of scope, but this affected construction, so had to be shown. The project was a two-fer; there was an interview presentation (above) and a set of LogistiGraf™ proposal plates. The project was so successful that my client went on to build a second complex for the same Owner on the same highway.
This 4½ level project ran under the direction of a great client representative at a longstanding large client. We’d done some stunning work, including a major high rise casino (A7519) that turned out to be a big win.
Project A7769 was seminal; it was instrumental in developing subsequent, more complex engagements with the same client that year (A782B, G7839). The lessons in integrating terrain/GIS and in rapidly modeling 4d folded into the next year of projects, making the Vinci LLC Digital Worksite™ what it is today. Vinci LLC has produced dozens of steel frame projects but several precast garages that tend to come together rapidly since they are already modular: A7966, A8306, A8583 are examples. Below are some scenes from A7769. Next Project→
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