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THE LAGOONS What was once 1,200 acres of sand will become a spectacular new community combining waterways, harbors, lush landscapes, and dramatic skyscrapers. As envisioned by Thompson Ventulett, Stainback & Associates, the project is composed of seven islands, thematically representing the seven Emirates of the UAE. All buildings in the business district were modeled in MicroStation and then handed off to an outside entity for ﬁnal visualization. These modeling efforts were vital in the design process to identify form, scale, and proportion relationships of each individual building and its relationship to the site as a whole. Being able to modify such a complex design easily in GenerativeComponents and see the repercussions of these modiﬁcations throughout major building systems was critical in moving such a complex project forward through the design process. —BE Magazine SETUN HILLS BUSINESS PARK, MOSCOW Setun Hills Business Park Moscow is an award-winning business park designed by Bothe Richter Teherani in the western part of the city. In order to integrate more than 550,000 square meters of the innovative and massive ofﬁce complex into a greenﬁeld environment, multiple relationships between interior and exterior spaces had to be considered and evaluated using special forms and interlocking concepts. GenerativeComponents was crucial to study and properly understand the complex relationships between the buildings and the natural environment. Bentley’s BIM solutions enabled the ﬁrm to complete the detailed design evaluation during the feasibility phase —BE Magazine in only a few weeks. for digital fabrication—creating an unfolded model that is completely associative to the design model, so that once again, any changes to the master will be automatically reflected. And because GenerativeComponents is an innovation by MicroStation, parametric and ordinary solids, surface, and mesh models can all be combined to use the most appropriate resources for each element of the building, linking them into a single, connected model. GenerativeComponents is helping creative architects and engineers to iterate more rapidly on their journey to ﬁnd the most innovative, most efﬁcient designs possible. It’s not like SketchUp, where your seven-year old could pick it up and model a dog kennel in an afternoon—it does require some training. But, then, it offers an entirely new way of working with complex geometry, so training seems like the right place to start. And the resulting projects that I have seen—the Bishopsgate Tower by KPF and the Dostyk Towers by NBBJ and E/Ye Design—demonstrate tremendous creativity based on a highly developed sense of intuitive design, expressed with a clarity that comes from an equally developed sense of design logic. Perhaps the combination of intuition and logic is not so alien after all. This article was originally published in CAD User, July/August 2007, and can be found on the publication’s Web site, www.caduser.com. Copyright 2007 Business and Technical Communications Ltd. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. Editor of CAD User and Construction Computing About David Chadwick Magazine, David Chadwick has covered computers since 1980, when he launched and edited the ﬁrst dedicated computer magazine— Windfall—which focused on the Apple II and since renamed MacUser. Volume 4, Issue 4 | BE MAGAZINE 15 http://www.caduser.com/

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BE Magazine - Volume 4, issue 4 Contents The Drive To Innovate News BE Newsletter Highlights Converging on the Market Bytes and Bricks Generative Components Building Courting Success Remodeling an Icon Structural Integration Building News From Bentley Civil Greenfield Airport Takes Flight Good Neighbors Collaborative Innovation Civil News From Bentley Advertisers Index Geospatial Ring of Fiber Revolutionizing Integrity Management Port City Transformation In Conversation With Greg Bentley Geospatial News From Bentley Plant Single-Source Service Committed to Cleaner Air Expediting Expansion Plant News From Bentley Strength in Numbers The Art of Visualization A Winning Legacy Zero Change Culture: Further Definition A Remarkable Collaboration With a Forward-Thinking Community

BE Magazine - Volume 4, Issue 4

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