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Module 8 - Make Your Pitch
Project Pitch: Frame A Donut!
— a structural framing tool for circular or donut-shaped buildings.
Intended users
Architects and designers who would like to design a structural framing system for a donut or circular shaped building.
Need you’re trying to provide a solution or support for
A typical structural framing system is often rectangular. This means that more flexible building forms like those with circular or donut-shaped floor plans will require a customized design for structural framing systems, which can be time-consuming. As a result, this tool aims to provide a parametric, scalable solution to the design of structural framing for circular and donut-shaped buildings.
Inputs
- Floor height
- Number of floors
- Building outer radius
- Opening in the middle (no/yes for donut-shaped building)
- Building inner radius (=0 if answered “no” above)
Underlying logic of the model you’ll implement
- Create a circular or donut-shaped building form in Dynamo using the input parameters
- Compute the building’s floor area, surface area, and volume
- Create reference lines for the structural framing system (columns and beams) in Dynamo
- Place columns and beams in Revit using the reference lines
Outputs
- A Revit model of the building’s structural framing system
- Gross floor area
- Gross surface area
- Gross volume