In 2020 at the height of the Pandemic, Stageport were delighted to begin work with Edinburgh International Festival on a Challenge Project funded by Creative Informatics.
The challenge set by EIF was to create virtual working spaces, that could enable the International Festival to provide cutting edge digital resources that met with the expectations of their world class productions
The Project
In order to achieve the aims of the project, The Hub on Castle Terrace, was chosen as the pilot venue. The Hub is a converted church, home to the offices of the Edinburgh International Festival and two of their festival venues.
https://www.visitscotland.com/info/see-do/the-hub-edinburghs-festival-centre-p1289791
The process began with the capture of the entire venue comprising over 700 laser scans combined with a drone survey of the roof and complemented by high resolution ground level photographs.
Once the point cloud was complete and registered, the architectural modelling team created a Building Information Model (BIM) of The Hub using Autodesk Revit.
https://www.thenbs.com/knowledge/what-is-building-information-modelling-bim
To create an industry standard working environment that could be accessed by International companies, EIF specified Vectorworks as their preferred software application.
Stageport converted the models from Autodesk Revit to Vectorworks.
Stageport explored two avenues during this phase, Vectorworks direct Revit import and conversion of the Revit file to Industry Foundation Class (IFC) . Both processes required further optimisation of the geometry within Vectorworks.
The final aspect of the challenge was to securely host these resources on Vectorworks Cloud and ensure ease of use by visiting production companies.
Creative Labs are planned at EIF to test the system with visiting producers
For more information, or if you have any questions, about this project please contact jared@stageport.co.uk