This past March, it was announced that Autodesk would be working with the City of Paris to redesign the area surrounding the Eiffel Tower using building information modeling (BIM). The partners have now announced the four teams that will be competing to renovate the space: Gustafson Porter + Bowman + BIM Services; AL_A + Quatorze-ig; Agenceter + Arcadis; and KOZ Architectes.
In time for the 2024 Summer Olympics, Paris plans to change the way people experience the Eiffel Tower. (Image courtesy of Autodesk.)
Over the course of the next year, these firms will rely on a large BIM model of the area created by Autodesk to draw up proposals that will be unveiled in spring 2019. Nicolas Mangon, Autodesk vice president of AEC Strategy & Marketing, told us in a recent interview that the project seeks to address issues such as security, energy, mobility and flooding related to climate change, among other concerns.
Autodesk is the sole technology provider for the project and the model it has created of the 2.4-kilometer space, including the Trocadéro Gardens and the Champ de Mars, is massive in detail. Made up of 8,200 trees, 1,000 buildings, three bridges, 25 statues, and hundreds of light fixtures, benches and park fixtures, the model consists of 342GB of point cloud data, made up of 10.3 billion points, created using aerial photography and lidar scanning.
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