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3D Models Activate Prestigious Community Hub 

Background

Yellamundie Library at Liverpool Civic Place is a contemporary public building unique to the City of Liverpool in New South Wales, Australia. Its distinctive architecture is inspired by the region’s natural landscape. While interiors, landscape and design embodies values of inclusion, welcome, community, learning, equality and sustainability. Following a fire that destroyed the former site, Liverpool City Council identified the opportunity to revitalise the city’s southern main street. Project architects fjcstudio engaged Woolpert’s 3D building models for accurate site representation and design visualisation. 

Challenge

fjcstudio sought a single digital source of truth to support design precision, collaboration and communication between members working on the same project, at the same time. This need was driven by industry trends aligning with evolving demands of architecture and design. Key factors included project complexity, visual realism, building information model (BIM) integration, sustainability and performance analysis, as well as accelerated design-to-construction processes. They required simplified 3D models to enable seamless collaboration while working efficiently with their existing software.

Solution

Woolpert’s 3D models seamlessly integrated with fjcstudio’s main software, Archicad. This empowered project architects to accurately analyse visual impact, solar access and shadow studies within the context of the site. Leveraging a purpose-fit spatially accurate representation of the area of interest allowed more time for design, and less time and resources fixed on modelling in-house.