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Hotelier India takes a look at the various technological tools used by architects and interior designers in the hotel industry.

Hospitality and Architecture go hand in hand in a sense. Hotels today are leaving no stone unturned to make sure that the outer façade and the interior designs are of international standards.

All of this necessarily means that architects who design and conceptualise hotels need to work quite hard to achieve these goals. Again, the magnitude of hospitality projects in terms of size and space are mammoth and architects are relying rather heavily on technology – software and hardware to help execute the task on hand.

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Software Punch
The software market offers a plethora of tools to architects for drafting, modelling, design visualisation and collaborative project management. Indrajit S Kembhavi, Principal Design Associate, Kembhavi Architecture Foundation shares, “For initial visualisation, tools like Google sketchup are extremely popular.

For detailed drafting and production of drawings and details, software like Autocad, Revit and Archicad are extremely popular.” Extensive projects like the hotel industry wherein services coordination is paramount, Building Information Modeling (BIM) software are extremely essential whereas Revit is the most popular and developed software.

For photorealistic demonstrations and animated walkthroughs, 3D Studio Max, Vray and Adobe Photoshop are extremely essential. For project scheduling and construction management Primavera is the preferred tool.
Autodesk one of the front runners in the field, provides the tools and technology for design and drafting software to the Revit® platform for BIM. This robust set of architecture software solutions helps improve productivity, deliver innovative design ideas and manage change throughout the project lifecycle.

The company has various offerings across the lifecycle of the project. AutoCAD® Architecture helps to enhance the creation of construction documents while providing more tools to automate tedious drafting tasks and enabling the creation of architectural documentation faster.

Autodesk 3ds Max® is a visualisation solution for architects and visualisation specialists. Autodesk Impression creates compelling, presentation-ready graphics straight from CAD drawings.

Autodesk® Collaborative Project Management (CPM) Solutions centralise management of all design information and streamline communication between architects, their clients, consultants and contractors.

Autodesk Design Review helps accelerate projects from start to finish and helps review, mark up, and track changes to 2D and 3D designs without the original creation.

AutoCAD® Revit® Architecture Suite software turns unparalleled flexibility to maximum advantage. Interestingly, the Revit® Architecture software works the way you think, so you can create naturally, design freely and deliver efficiently.

And because it is purpose-built for building information modeling (BIM), any change is automatically coordinated throughout the project.