EP 023220 January 2025 · 50 min
How BIM is Changing Landscape Architecture: A Conversation with Alejandro Gatica at Gillespies
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BIM is often discussed through buildings, but landscape architecture has its own technical challenges, workflows and opportunities.
About this conversation
Stephen Drew speaks with Alejandro Gatica at Gillespies about using BIM in landscape architecture, adapting Revit, working with plugins and thinking about the future of digital tools for landscape and urban design.
The conversation covers:
How BIM can support landscape architecture workflows
Where Revit helps and where workarounds are still needed
How plugins, parametric design and rendering tools fit into the process
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- · Stephen Drew
Stephen Drew
Hello, hello, hello. That's right, you urban designers, master planners, landscape architects. This one's for you in 25 seconds. Hello everyone. And welcome to this special. If you're an architect, you're probably thinking a lot of
- · Stephen Drew
Stephen Drew
time about the actual building that you're designing, how it works, and probably, especially if you're in a medium or large architecture practice, you're going to be using Revit. However, how does BIM work for not just the building, but the actual landscape outside?
Gillespies projects
The work behind the conversation.
Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom
West of Ifield
A landscape-led framework for a proposed 3,000-home community west of Crawley, with half of the site planned as public open space.
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Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme
A landscape-led flood scheme that combines a new stream and lowered floodplain with habitats and public routes west of Oxford.
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