An Urban Update
The project posed several challenges for ATP.
First and foremost were the expectations of the
client. “Overall, SES wanted the development to be
more of an urban district center than a shopping
mall,” explains Gerhard Oberrauch, ATP’s lead
architect on the project. “Our design had to adhere
to the client’s existing development plan, but
also integrate the facility with the surrounding
environs.” In addition, there were city and countryspecific
regulations to be considered, which differ
from the Austrian and German regulations that
ATP designers were used to. “We could only meet
those challenges with a perfect design,” says
Oberrauch. So ATP relied on Autodesk Building
Information Modeling (BIM) solutions to create its
‘perfect design’.