BIM FOR ARCHITECTURE: PRIVATE BUILDING
Zhongrong Jasper Tower
Gresham, Smith and Partners
The Zhongrong Jasper Tower will be a 45-story,
mixed-use high-rise building 656 feet tall and
1,000,000 square feet in area: 810,000 square
feet above grade and 175,000 square feet
below. The design was form-driven, the idea
being a diamond gem stone embedded in
splendid jade (or jasper).
MicroStation made smooth work of cutting
this diamond from the rough. Through reference
files, it allowed easy coordination between
the site plan and the massing. And designers
were not bogged down with lengthy
revisions and complex calculations.
The tower is organized into six components:
underground parking, a ground-floor
entrance lobby, the podium building (which
contains retail, restaurant, and entertainment
areas), and tenant office spaces in the lower
half of the tower. The twenty-third to fortieth
floors contain corporate condo units. The
forty-second to forty-fifth floors will be
“Banker’s Clubs” containing restaurants, game
rooms, and meeting and conference facilities.
These floors will be connected by sky
atriums with cascading gardens and
spectacular views of the river and city.
Once the main forms were established and the layers defined,
designers used solid modeling to
design the complex structural system
at the top of the building as well as
for the four-level podium building at
the base of the tower.
The curved form of the building
meant that no two tower floors
were the same size. To determine
the total building area, designers
turned to MicroStation’s ability to
extract surfaces from solid elements–in this case, the building
floors–and extracted the surface
area of each floor. ;
BIM FOR ARCHITECTURE: PRIVATE BUILDING
House of the Future
Living Tomorrow II
such as a bathroom, kitchen, dinette, bedroom,
and so on. The passageways and spaces are
being made wider and larger to accommodate the large numbers of the visiting public.
Bentley’s MicroStation and Bentley
Architecture were used to design in 3D the
LivTom 2 complex, which includes in one
building the house of the future, the event
hall, and the office of the future. The biggest
advantage of the 3D approach was that signif-
icant errors were discovered visually during
the design process rather than on-site. ;
At the House of the Future all the aspects
that relate to expected social evolutions are
fleshed out. Two criteria will be paramount:
the functionality of the home and whether
we experience our home as pleasant. Liv Tom
has chosen the following concept: a free-standing residence with functional spaces
