Category: Customer Stories


  • BPD: “When you can show a certain density is viable, the municipality is open to discussing it.”

    Executive summary:  As cities feel the pressure to accommodate ever-growing urban populations, municipalities are looking to densify existing neighborhoods to build new housing. By repurposing existing structures and optimizing available land for urban development, urban densification aims to limit a city’s footprint, both physically and environmentally and enables infrastructure and amenities to be used more…


  • Rødovre becomes the first Danish municipality to collaborate with Forma

    Autodesk Forma’s cloud-based platform will help Rødovre Municipality to better visualize and optimize future urban development projects, positioning the municipality at the forefront of digital urban development in Denmark. Initially, Forma will be used for three urban development projects totalling around 200,000m2.  The agreement follows several months of testing, and the new digital tools will help…


  • Film: Nordic Office of Architecture – how new technology opens up new opportunities for design, collaboration and business 

    How can new technology help architects navigate the increasing complexity in their work? What new opportunities will data open up? And how will the architects’ involvement in a longer building lifecycle benefit the project? In this film, the Autodesk Forma team travels to Oslo, Norway to meet Knut Ramstad and Bridget White from Nordic Office…


  • CUBE 3: a cloud-based way of working is the way of the future for its business

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  Exceeding clients’ expectations Led by the motto, Designing Your Vision, CUBE 3 brings its client’s ambitions to life through considered, innovative and distinctive solutions across architecture, interior design and planning. Established in 2003 the US-based practice is headquartered in Lawrence, MA, with later expansion to Boston, MA, Miami, FL, and Princeton, NJ, serving the…


  • Sweco: streamlining data- and workflows for project and business success

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  Image: Sweco Headquarters, Stockholm. Image courtesy of Sweco


  • ARCO Architecture Company: Embracing the promise of data 

    How does data open new perspectives for architects? In this film the Autodesk Forma team heads to Helsinki to meet architect Richard Hogan from the award-winning Finnish practice ARCO Architecture Company.  Richard discusses how data-driven tools give the team a richer view of the buildings they’re designing to help them solve more at the early phase,…


  • Patriarche Offices

    How Forma enhances Patriarche’s “augmented” architecture

    Read about how Patriarche uses Forma's "intuitive, smooth and easy-to-use software" to help the team more effectively.


  • Illustration of PKA’s winning proposal for Fridheimskvartalet for Fredensborg bolig AS, image courtesy of PKA.

    Forma contributes to PKA’s competition wins

    Executive summary: Trondheim-based Per Knudsen Arkitektkontor (PKA) is the largest architecture firm in mid-Norway. Specializing in residential projects, PKA takes pride in being at the forefront of using the latest digital tools. So when Axel Kristoffersen, architect and managing director at PKA, first heard about Autodesk Forma he was, unsurprisingly, intrigued. “There are many tools that can…


  • How ARCO used Forma’s data-driven insights to transform a challenging urban site into valuable student housing

    Executive summary How can data give architects deeper insights, and help them transform even the most challenging urban sites into something valuable for the city and its residents? This was the case for the Malmi student housing project in Helsinki designed by ARCO Architecture Company, Finland’s largest architecture practice. Part of a series of new…