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10 October 2008

Implementation Investments

Autodesk Presents Revit BIM Experience Award to ONL [Oosterhuis_Lenard]

Autodesk, Inc. has announced that ONL [Oosterhuis_Lenard], a multidisciplinary design firm with offices in Rotterdam and Budapest, has been selected to receive a Revit BIM Experience Award. The firm is being recognized for use of a building information modeling (BIM) process for innovative mass-customization and file-to-factory fabrication strategies, and for employing an integrated Revit Architecture and Autodesk 3ds Max Design software workflow for visionary, non-standard architectural designs. The award also recognizes ONL's use of Revit Architecture software for sustainable design strategies.

"As buildings become more complex, the need to control the huge amount of data required for engineering and production will depend heavily on data sets arising from BIM processes that include every aspect of the building," said Gijs Joosen, senior project architect, ONL. "Making all this information available in a digital model will help enable high levels of quality control, data synchronization and CNC-enabled production processes."

Founded in 1989, ONL currently employs a staff of architects, visual artists, web designers and programmers, and is known for the design of non-standard architecture and for the construction of affordable, custom components for geometrically complex projects where none of the base elements are the same.

The firm's diverse portfolio includes the WEB of North-Holland, the Saltwater Pavilion and the F-side housing project in Amsterdam. To support the need for high-quality, coordinated design information, ONL adopted Revit Architecture for BIM in 2004, integrating its use with Autodesk 3ds Max Design software.

ONL has demonstrated exemplary use of the BIM process on several projects, including the CET, a mixed-use development project located in the heart of Budapest on the Danube River scheduled to open in 2010. For this project ONL was challenged to transform two 19th century warehouses into an eye-catching integrated design intended to visually echo the contours of the Danube River near the site. The design incorporates a glass roof spanning the two existing parallel warehouses to form a gallery that extends into the interior of the new space. The firm used Autodesk 3ds Max Design software to develop the undulating skin of the structure. The ONL team imported the 3ds Max Design into Revit Architecture to flesh out the scheme by draping a curtain system over the faceted surface model. ONL's designers then used Revit Architecture to generate the architectural drawing set and schedules, and Autodesk 3ds Max Design to generate photo-realistic design visualizations for client and city official reviews. The elements of the CET's curtain wall system will be digitally fabricated by generating data from the Autodesk 3ds Max Design surface for computer numerical control (CNC) machining. For sustainable design, the Revit Architecture model was used for lighting and thermal studies.

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