Unipark Commercial Center

Unipark Commercial Center

UNIPARK COMMERCIAL CENTER

HDA | Hugh Dutton Associés

CHINA OVERSEA LAND & INVESTMENT LTD
Client

RONALD LU & PARTNERS
Architect

HUGH DUTTON ASSOCIATES
Specialist Consultants

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
Zhuhai, China

CATEGORY
Commercial › Exhibition Center

The Unipark Commercial Center located in Zhuhai, China consists of seven architectural elements conceived and engineered by the specialist consultants, Hugh Dutton Associates.

Unipark Commercial Center
Unipark Commercial Center

These elements include a curved and sloping bus station façade, an engineered glass box, a marquise and small glass box, a curved westside canopy, a parametrically-designed roof, a large central roof, and a symbolic, monumental canopy.

The complexity of the project involved combining multiple engineering and architecture softwares into one working, coordinated BIM model.

Unipark Commercial Center
Unipark Commercial Center

Because the project has multiple parts, complex geometries and many different original file types (Sketchup, AutoCAD, Strauss Engineering, Rhino, Grasshopper), the challenge lies in the creation of an efficient workflow.

The project demonstrates the overall management of integrating computational design tools and building information modelling as well as the diversity of design/engineering skillsets and technologies used at Hugh Dutton Associates. Today, there does not exist only one working solution for integrating these design methods.

Unipark Commercial Center
Unipark Commercial Center

Therefore, the Unipark Commercial Center project displays a combination of the best current BIM practices including the new use of Rhino Inside (Beta version) by Robert McNeel & Associates, import methods, and highly skilled, family-based modelling within Revit.

The final output is one coordinated model that can be shared with the entire design team and used for construction coordination efforts.

Unipark Commercial Center


Unipark Commercial Center
Unipark Commercial Center


Unipark Commercial Center
Unipark Commercial Center