Project: Room design by Revit

The project my partner Xiang Li and I will focus on is BIM designing. Our preliminary idea is to design a two floor building and add a HAVC system in it by Revit.

The purpose of choosing this topic is that we want to learn how to use Revit and further extend our skills on BIM applications. In architecture and construction fields BIM is becoming much more popular recently. I will be no surprised that it will replace other software to dominate the design studios in the future. Based on the reading and learning from class, there are several BIM building design platforms and each one has its own advantage. For example, Bentley, according to the presentation of Mr. Robert last Thursday, is famous for complex simulations and broad range of modeling tools. The products designed by it have won several building prizes. It is suitable for higher level design. We choose Revit as our tool because it is the most popular BIM in the market and is organized in a well-designed and user –friendly interface.

In addition, Revit has many different kinds of objects developed by third parties that can be directly used in the design. Know well about how to use them and further to create the object families is another challenge for us.  

So the project will examine our cognitive depth about Revit application. We plan to present a sheet, composed of house floor plan, elevations and HAVC system construction and its distribution in the house. We also want to generate one report recording all the technical problems we meet and how we solve them. Within the drawing process, we can share the experiences and how to make the design effective and powerful. We can summary what we have learned through the design process.

Our group member Gabrielle Carpenter and Gayaneh Gulbenkian will research on the relationship between green and intelligent building. I am also interested how to use technology to make our building environmental and the extent to name it the “green building”. As mentioned in Gabrielle’s post, the definitions of intelligent building include a broad range of regulations such as temperature control and window shadow control. With these measures operation properly, buildings energy can be saved which called. Their topic is about how the sustainability will contribute to the “green image” of the building.  I am looking forward to the way they predict combination of green and intelligence in the future.