In 2028, The Paragon Group, as lead architects, embarked on an exciting project, namely the conceptualisation of Barloworld Equipment Head Office & Caterpillar Showroom in Kempton Park, Gauteng.
The state-of-the-art 4500m² Head Office consists of two elongated, north-facing buildings: a two-story north building, and a three story south building, linked by an enclosed, glazed bridge.
The office structures sit lightly on a landscaped podium, which floats above a semi-basement parking level.
The 3200m2 showroom is the first of its kind in South Africa – a bubble-like structure dedicated to large earthmoving equipment, defined by a ‘tyre’ or ‘track’ category. The space also includes two floors of office space to the rear.
The space also includes two floors of office space to the rear. Once we learned of the completion of this first in South Africa project, we made contact with The Paragon group in order to share with you the achievable outcomes when combining Autodesk Revit with Lumion Rendering Software. By doing this, we are able to present the options that you can too implement in order to streamline and increase the efficiency of your design projects.
Our team uses a combination of the below Software to ensure maximum design efficiency:
Over the last two years we have started to integrate Lumion as part of the design process where the design teams use LiveSync to refine and adjust design ideas.
This is the main use of Lumion in our practice 95% of our presentation renders and animated fly-throughs are produced in Lumion
We use Lumion as part of the continues design communication and feedback between project teams in our daily workflows.
No, we mainly provide clients with renders and animations.
Yes, the companies within the Paragon Group require collaboration between architectural and interior design teams w.r.t their varied models. It is standard practice in our workflow to combine a base-build model from the architectural teams with the additional interior components from the interior design team.
“Yes. Where required and depending on expected render outcome”
“Yes. We have used drone photography extensively in several of our projects for both back context information in renders/fly-throughs and point cloud creation.”
“We use Open Street Map for heightmap and for satellite photo information (from Lumion 11).
This allows us to be less dependent on terrain models created in Revit. It is however still necessary to have the terrain model from Revit for use as a reference to get site and building models aligned in Lumion.”
“We have only Lumion Pro licenses in our practice.”
“Not as part of the visualisation production workflow. Design teams might render low resolution conceptual renders for design discussions.”
“No this is not part of our workflow.”
“Our practice only has full Revit licenses as part of the Autodesk Architecture, Engineering and Construction Collection.”
“It is standard practice for us to export our models from Revit to 3ds Max. Adding this step in the workflow, gives us much greater flexibility and insures we have greatly optimised models and textures for import into Lumion. “
“Yes.”
And does it speed up your material assignments when bringing in a Revit project each time?
“As stated before, we do not use material sets as standard. Because our workflow included preparation and refinement of the models in 3ds Max, we would do all material assignments in Max before exporting for Lumion. “
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