BIM is Magical

The new building of the EBS Center on the Graz University of
Technology’s Inffeld grounds marks a kind of starting and end point. As a
figurative punctuation mark, the built volume was articulated as a
free-standing complex. The Center’s distinctive six-story east-side
façade provides the urban front facing the campus. Gradated building
heights descending toward plinth level make for a gentle transition to
the surrounding green areas and the small-scale built neighborhood. The
complex is structured into lab and research facilities, and above them, a
block building used for offices. Its compact internal core with a
stairwell and adjacent side rooms makes for short distances. Informal
meeting booths offer privacy and add to the circulation areas. While the
office spaces on the upper floors are organized in a U-shape around the
building core, the communication zones are conceived as an expansion of
the internal circulation areas and oriented toward the green vegetation
outside. In the EBS Center, AllesWirdGut broke new ground in terms of
planning. For this was the first time that a project was developed as an
Open BIM project with involvement of all specialist planners from the
very start. In this way, an exceptionally detailed plan was available
already at an early project stage. Period. Exclamation point!