Vectorworks Landmark is purpose-built for the needs of landscape architects.

Vectorworks Landmark excels at handling complex 3D data and the project contained complex height data across the landscape architect’s work. Vectorworks Landmark shown here from the Viega Project by scape. But it would soon be apparent that the BIM process imagined for the project would need to change. Having been a firm that has done many highly technical projects, scape was selected as the landscape architecture firm. When the project began, Matthias explains that the mandate was that the project would proceed as a “Closed BIM” project process. And it was also going to be designed and built using a full BIM process. This building was going to literally be about BIM. Developed for The Viega Group, an internationally active business in the field of mechanical and plumbing technology for sanitary and heating systems, the seminar building itself had an architectural program component devoted to educating customers about the BIM process in the plumbing and HVAC segments of building technology and design. In that latter category, one recent project was for a new headquarters and seminar building in Attendorn. “Eighty percent of our projects are urban spaces and parks, and 20 percent are what we call building-related projects, where we are developing landscapes around new buildings,” says Matthias Funk, principal at scape. Rainer Sachse, the scape office has just over 20 talented employees who focus the firm’s work on a mixture of project types.

Founded in 2001 by Matthias Funk, Hiltrud M. The small firm has developed important learning lessons for landscape architects working on BIM projects led by architects and developers.

TRUTH BE TOLD, YOU DON’T typically hear of a landscape architecture firm jumping out ahead of the BIM learning curve, but that is exactly the case of the scape Landschaftsarchitekten (scape for short) office in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Using revit for landscape architecture