How Jurassic World was "resurrected"

Source: Economic Daily

Stepping into Universal Beijing Resort, a nearly 50-meter-high mountain comes into view, which is an important landscape of the entire theme park and the landmark of "Jurassic World Nubra Island" - the big rockery. Complex roller coaster tracks run through it, with 4 waterfalls with a maximum drop of 37 meters hanging in front of the mountain, 147 themed lights embedded in it, 13 power circuits and 24 control circuits as a whole "trader", and each fold on the mountain is cleverly designed and accurately realized. "Have you ever seen a rockery that brings together 25 kinds of architecture majors?" Xing Yizhi, project manager of Universal Studios Beijing of China Construction Second Bureau East China Company, said.

The concept map is the starting point for the construction team. First, a reduced-scale solid model was made from the clay, and even the textured folds were realistically rendered. Then, the 3D scanning technology is used to generate a digital model of the rockery, and the epidermis of the mountain is adjusted on the computer to obtain the digitized data. The technicians then divided the rockery skin into more than 3,000 square pieces like "cut tofu", and designed the secondary steel structure and the main steel structure that can be effectively supported according to the shape and position of each piece. As a result, an renderings evolved into 6,000 deepening design drawings, and the construction also had a "road map" of accurate operability.

How to make the steel structure rockery rise to the ground? The mountain frame is made up of 9,400 steel components of various shapes. Engineers first combine the steel components one by one, and then hoist them layer by layer. "In the assembly of common residential components, they are all aligned and spliced up and down, but we need to splice on the irregular work surface, and there are more than 5 splicing points each time, and multiple dimensions must be taken into account." Wang He, chief engineer of the project, said that during the splicing process, the maximum diameter of the steel component unit is about 10 meters, while the overall error of aerial assembly cannot exceed 2 centimeters. Waterways, circuits, lights, sound effects, tracks, frames and other 25 kinds of architectural professions in the limited space according to the integrated design and construction, the difficulty can be imagined.

With the "skeleton", covered with a special layer of mortar cement, carvers and colorists have moved the original environment from 60 million years ago to the real world. The green moss and heavily weathered rocks are carved and painted on the mortar cement. There are no drawings to follow in the artistic presentation, and they must rely on artistic understanding and a pair of skillful hands to turn the cold mortar cement into a living, warm, and perceptible historical site.

Wandering in the "Jurassic World Nubra Island", the application of new construction techniques and craftsmanship makes the building itself full of scientific and technological charm and artistic tension. The color of "China Construction" is no longer represented by the traditional "human sea tactics" and "construction according to drawings", relying on the in-depth application of digital construction technology in the whole life cycle of buildings, "China Construction" highlights the integration and sublimation of construction power and art design, cold technology and colorful imagination. (Economic Daily reporter Luan Xiaoyu)