ARCH 653 BIM Projects: March 2014

Lacey Masters

ARCH 653 Project 1: Shipping and Transport College, Neutelings Riedijk Architecten

Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2005

Model Description

The mass model was made in Revit using the “Create Form” function in a conceptual mass template. The form is made of 4 different solid forms and 2 void forms. Together, these make an irregular shaped base, an angled piece on top of part of the base, the tower, and a protruding volume at the top of the tower. After creating the different forms, I used two void forms in order to create the two pieces that have angles. Dimension parameters keep the geometry of the different solids working together if the mass of the model changes.

Whole Building Form

Angled Piece on top of base

Tower Form

Irregular shaped base

Protruding volume at top of tower

Parametric Building Envelope

On the actual mass I divided up the surfaces; making the horizontal lines line up with the actual floor levels, and the vertical lines line up on a grid of 10’-6”, so that the divided lines on each shape lined up with the one next to it.

Next, the parametric building envelope was created by altering the “Rectangle Surface” curtain panel family. Through the use of reference lines and rectangles, I created five rectangular forms, and a rectangular frame. This allowed each of the individual panels to have a material parameter (gray metal, white metal, glass, and an aluminum frame) that could be defined once loaded into the project. Two squares on top and two squares on the bottom of the whole panel with a glass panel and frame running through the middle of it. The goal behind this organization is to have a system of gray and white corrugated metal panels in a checkered pattern with strips of glazing in between.

However, I had some problems when I added it into the mass’s divided surface. For some reason because the first level, had different dimensions than the rest of the divided surface, the panels went in at an angle.

I decided to resolve this issue, by making the first level of the divided surface just a solid panel instead of a divided one, as I would put doors in this level of panels as well.

I also create a second similarly made parametric building panel system for the roof. It contains the ability to have the grey and white checkered pattern without the glazing.

Finishing the Massing

Once the conceptual mass was loaded into the project file, floors and roofs were added, and different materials could be assigned to the new material parameters of the curtain panel systems. Other exterior details were added as well, such as doors and a site, which is located on a dock along the coast of the North Sea.

Sample Floor Plan

The floor plan on Level 7 was modeled to illustrate how the majority of the tower of the building is used. It consists mainly of classrooms and offices with an elevator core in the middle.