York, has been built in conjunction with
Skystone, a company that specialises
in modular buildings.
Each room that makes up the hotel
is a single, self-contained module that
has been fully fitted out in a factory in
Poland using only the exact amount of
material needed. The whole hotel – 168
modules – is then shipped to the Port
of New York and then transported by
truck to the site where they are craned
into place on the central concrete core
and hooked up to the facilities.
Anagnost stated: “Over half the
work is still done on-site, but the
work has changed for the better. It’s
simple, it’s predictable. But beyond
that, there’s also less disruption to the
neighbourhood: less noise, less dirt.
Because of the building’s performance,
Marriott qualified for a floor space
credit, the city granted them an extra
“Maybe you’re
not building high rise
hotels, but if modular can
do this for Marriott, just
imagine what it could do to
help you use energy
and materials more
efficiently.”
ANDREW ANAGNOST
5500ft2 that will become a rooftop bar
which will make it more attractive,
bring more guests, and more revenue.
“Maybe you’re not building high
rise hotels, but if modular can do
this for Marriott, just imagine what it
could do to help you use energy and
materials more efficiently.”
Skystone used Autodesk’s
Revit and AutoCAD to design the
individual modules, Assemble for
preconstruction and BIM360 for
construction management.
Also in the construction industry,
non-profit Build Change uses
AutoCAD, Revit and Dynamo to
structurally assess dwellings in areas
vulnerable to natural disasters, like
earthquakes, and retrofit them to make
them more resilient. Its goal is to build
10 million more resilient homes in the
next 10 years, which Anagnost went
some way to help towards by
donating $500,000 at the event.
“Technology helps us
create a more prosperous
future,” Anagnost said. “But
we need to create better
experiences for people as
well.”
Nowhere is this more evident
than at Disneyland’s newest
attraction, the 14-acre Star Wars:
Galaxy’s Edge site. One of the major
attractions here is the Millennium
Falcon, which is not just a replica of the
set, but an interactive experience and
the result of over 600 different models
all integrated in a single source,
encompassing design, fabrication and
installation.
There were two major constraints
that drove its design: the structure and
the interface with the ride system. The
site footprint drove the overall shape
of the building and the ride system
occupied a big portion of the floor
space. This left odd-shaped voids into
which all the show set spaces had to
be located. The design needed to be
coordinated with incredibly small
tolerances because fractions of an inch
is the difference between a snug fit and
an HVAC duct running right through
the middle of the ship’s holographic
chess table.
The show set, ride and facility
teams were in different locations
working on their respective designs
concurrently. Coordinating electrical,
AV, fire protection and show control
systems was an iterative process with
the design evolving over time as each
discipline put more detail into the
model, which pushed Revit to its limits.
But working together concurrently
rather than sequentially meant that the
attraction opened earlier than planned.
“Organisations like Skystone, Build
Change and Disney Imagineering
are starting to see the value that
is emerging from building on our
platform,” Anagnost finished. “Think
about how automation can help you
connect the disciplines you work with,
look for opportunities to eliminate the
non-productive. Think about how you
can grow your expertise and your
creativity and focus on what adds value
to you and to your business.
“That’s what we’re working towards
at Autodesk: A platform for better.
Better workflows, better outcomes, a
better world. Better starts here.” !
The Millennium Falcon
at Star Wars: Galaxy’s
Edge is not just a replica
of the set, but an
interactive experience
and the result of over
600 different models
all integrated in a single
source, encompassing
design, fabrication and
installation.
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