Dallas/Fort Worth Airport

I worked on a transportation redesign project for the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport. As one of the largest airports in the world, DFW needed to plan out its transportation strategy for the coming decades as it expanded and opened new terminals. I was asked to develop and manage a cohesive 3D model that encompassed the entire site and accommodated all the redesign options the team developed.

This task demanded managing and configuring many different data types to create a complete model. High resolution aerial photography, elevation contours, LIDAR point clouds, GIS road and building data, and pre-built 3D models were all incorporated into a Rhino model, using tailor-made Grasshopper scripts and a lot of modeling and tweaking by hand. The result was a 1-to-1 3D model that spanned 36 square miles and read legibly from a distance and looked good in close renders. With this as a base, we were able to incorporate various transportation planning proposals, including road redesigns, new bus rapid transit lines, and automated group rapid transit systems. While I cannot share some of the final imagery produced for these proposals, the unified model ensured a consistent visual style across all the work that was created.