Jimmy Yang

AwareHouse

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What is it?

AwareHouse is an applet that allows the user to design and visualize what their ideal warehouse would look like. Give the applet the building dimensions, preferred bay spacing, and material strengths, and the app will create the model for you! This template can help plan out construction sequences, design floor plans, and equipment placements, and be used as a tool to communicate your building to a client.

Not only does AwareHouse generate a visual of the user’s design, but it also can calculate the expected amount of steel and concrete the building will use (based on ACI 318 standards) as well as the material costs associated with them.

For a more optimized design, feel free to delve into the Dynamo app and use the provided Generative Design to optimize your structure after inputting the known properties.

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Inputs:

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Outputs:

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Dynamo Script:

  1. Inputs
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  1. Constants
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  1. Visualization of Building in Dynamo
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  1. Visualization of Building in Revit
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  1. Optimization of Building for Generative Design
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  1. Outputs
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Here is a short video showing the app’s capability and a peak behind the curtains into how Dynamo is creating the structure. The portion of the video also shows a bit of the Generative Design aspect of the script.