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Module 2 - Points to Ponder
Please share your comments on 3 of the following Points to Ponder questions. (Choose 3 of the 5 questions below.)
What are the primary goals of creating a building model? Who are the key stakeholders?
- What do they need?
- The primary goals are to conduct research with a few people, in an area without access to a large facility
- What do they care about most?
- They care about having access to conduct necessary research on the field, but likely don’t need extremely spacious or delicate equipment, or other amenities in the building
How much detail should you include in your building model? How do you decide?
- As you develop your initial design?
- Necessities and regulation standards, such as the general structure and layout, and the amount of space necessary for accessibility reasons
- As you continue to iterate and develop on your design?
- Comfort, aesthetics, and smaller improvements to the structure.
- What are the key stages?
- The layout of the building should be dealt with first, and then the design of the rooms and walls and interior, and then plumbing and other fixtures such as solar panels, and then the furniture and the other placements.
- And how much detail should you include at each stage?
- Each stage should only include as much detail as necessary. However, the initial structural stages should include more detail and precision as the building process is occurring, and the furniture doesn’t require as much detail as it can be changed later.
How much detail should you include about the composition (layers, materials, thicknesses) of your wall, floor, and roof assemblies at different stages of your design process?
- Conceptual design
- basic detail (dimensions, possible placements)
- Preliminary design
- Some detail (thickness, type of wall, roof, floor, etc)
- Design development
- More details on materials and insulation, etc
- Construction documentation
- As much detail as possible, to know exactly the dimensions, materials, structure, and layout of the building
Many door and window manufacturers provide Revit families for doors and windows that you can specify for your building design.
- What is the advantage to manufacturers for providing these families? (it's not free to create and provide them...)
- What is the benefit to you as the designer of using these manufacturer-provided families? Is there an advantage to using them versus the families provided in the Revit library?