Why is it important to accurately model the land features of your project site with a toposurface?
- It is important to accurately model the land features on your project as it is an extremely important part of your buildings design and how its structure works with the toposurface. Things like support beams, windows, lighting all rely on being correctly integrated with the land features in order to have a realistic and functioning build
When designing a project...
I would say when designing a project it will be much more cost effective and efficient as well as realistic to modify the building to the toposurface as that is what would happen in the real world most likely. It would be way more expensive in most cases to have to excavate and change the land features then to create a working building design that is integrated into the toposurface.
What considerations affect a project team's decision-making when deciding the floor-to-floor height to use in a multi-story building?
- From a real estate developer's perspective?
- From a designer's perspective?
- From an engineer's perspective?
- From a builder's perspective?
- From an owner's perspective?
What are the advantages of stacking the levels of a multi-story building vertically?
- Can you share an interesting example of a building that doesn’t vertically stack (where the floor plates change their shaped radically between the floor levels)?
- What were the advantages or reasons for non-vertical stacking?
Why do stairs follow specific proportions with a set relationship between the tread length and riser height?
- How can building modeling help prevent the mistakes that often occur when designing and installing stairs?
Describe a case when it would be worthwhile to create a new custom component in Revit… How do you decide when customize versus using readily available components?
It would be worthwhile to create a new custom design when it is not already made and adds an important use or design function. In most cases for me I would use a readily available component for the sake of time and efficiency, but if there was not already a component that was important for my design or I need something that added significant value to the build, it would be worthwhile to create a new component.