ARCH 653 BIM Projects: March 2013

Jordan Pennington

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 three different solid forms and one void form. Together, these make the rectangular base, the tower, and a protruding volume at the top of the tower. After creating the different forms, I edited individual faces of the forms by moving their edges and points to create the different angular faces of the building. Dimension parameters keep the geometry of the different solids working together if the mass of the model changes.

Parametric Building Envelope

Next, the parametric building envelope was created by altering the “Rectangle Surface” curtain panel family. A system of gray and white corrugated metal panels create a checkered pattern with strips of glazing in between. To create this system, the original rectangular panel was edited to the proper dimensions and then divided into 8 individual panels (4 metal rectangles and 4 glazing rectangles). A surface form was then created for each of these individual panels (after setting a rectangular sweep was created along the edge of these boundaries). This allowed each of the individual panels to have a material parameter (gray metal, white metal, glass) that could be defined once loaded into the project.

Parametric Building Envelope, Panel 2

A second, similar panel system was created in the same way for the surfaces of the building that have the same gray and white checkered pattern, but do not have glazing.

The surfaces of the conceptual mass were divided with vertical and horizontal grids that were set by distances that corresponded to the dimensions of the parametric panel. The two curtain panel systems were then loaded into the proper surfaces of the conceptual mass model. Once the panels were loaded to create a custom curtain panel system, there were some issues with the original location of the systems. Some needed to be offset vertically or horizontally. Surfaces of the mass that had edges at angles other than 90˚ required the curtain panel system to be rotated.

Once the massing model was loaded into the project file, the different materials could be assigned to the new material parameters of the curtain panel systems.

Finishing the Massing

Once the conceptual mass was loaded into the project file, floors, roofs, and walls were massed by face. Other exterior details were added such as curtain walls and a site, which is located on a dock along the coast of the North Sea.

Sample Floor Plan

The floor plan and reflected ceiling plan of level 9 were modeled to illustrate how the majority of the building, the tower, is used. It consists mainly of classrooms and offices and features a series of escalators at the core of the tower.