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Module 6 - Points to Ponder
What are the principal advantages of creating a conceptual design model using masses before diving into the detailed design and building element modeling?
Conceptual design models are faster to iterate on the big picture feel of the design using masses. The purposely coarse and constrained nature of the shapes helps limit focus away from details.
The tooling available for creating walls, floors, and ceilings also allows these conceptual designs to look realistic and be real scaffolds for further detailed design.
Can you think of any examples of a real building around the world that most likely was created by exploring the form using conceptual mass models?
Salesforce Tower in SF — three rounded squares blended together.
BIG’s Tetrahedron Building in NYC — a tetrahedron with a rectangle cut out.
How would you abstract the essential form of these famous buildings using conceptual mass elements that you can create in Revit?
- One World Trade Center: https://www.archdaily.com/795277/one-world-trade-center-som
- CMG Headquarters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMG_Headquarters#/media/File:China_Central_Television_Headquarters_2.jpg
- Twisting torso: https://www.archdaily.com/771471/santiago-calatravas-turning-torso-wins-ctbuhs-10-year-award
- Apple campus: https://www.archdaily.com/804970/apple-campus-2-held-to-fantastical-standard-of-detail-new-report-reveals
- Salesforce tower: https://www.archdaily.com/889519/salesforce-tower-pelli-clarke-pelli-architects