Share your initial design including:
- a link to your Space Budget
- sketches or bubble diagrams showing the thinking behind your building layout
- a link to your personal folder (containing your Revit model files) within our shared Autodesk Construction Cloud Project
Free free to add whatever additional media you'd like to use to best share your ideas and design thinking!
We’ll continue to refine this initial design in the coming weeks and use it as the basis for your detailed systems designs in upcoming modules.
For 2 units
For this check-in you’ll create:
- Space Budget — a list that identifies the functions and dimensions of all the programmed spaces in your proposed design.
- Building Layout — a sketch or bubble diagram that shows the spaces in your proposed design with the connections between them as well as connections to exterior spaces.
- Building Model — an initial building model. This first model will have a very low level of detail (LOD 200), using generic walls to indicate the preliminary sizes and locations of the major programmed spaces (based on your space budget and building layout diagram). Include the:
- Exterior Walls — use generic walls to indicate the preliminary location of the exterior wall surfaces (don’t worry about modeling the windows, glazing features, and materials now -- you’ll do that next week in Module 7).
- Interior Walls — use generic walls to indicate the preliminary location of the interior wall surfaces (again, don’t worry about modeling the interior doors and architectural features -- you’ll do that in future weeks as you continue to design and refine your model).
For 3 units
Add these elements to your initial building model:
- Building Cores and Circulation Elements — place stairs and generic walls to indicate:
- the preliminary locations of the building cores (stair and elevators shafts)
- circulation spaces (corridors and hallways)
- and utility spaces (public restrooms and mechanical rooms)
For 4 units
Add these elements to your initial building model:
- Building Envelope Big Features
- Exterior Entrances and Exits — place doors to showing the access and egress locations.
- Exterior Terraces or Patios
- Exterior Stairs or Ramps
Link to the initial space budget:
When comes to the actual design, some dimensions have changed and I added a small gift shop. But the basic idea is very similar to my design. The bubble diagram shows the proposed design is shown in Figure 1. The actual space values for each function are shown below in Figure 2.
Figures 3 and 4 show my floor plan for first and second floor, respectively. The main idea in the first floor is to let the visitors have the best lake view in the dining space, and the two stairs inside and one stair outside make sure that the visitors can easily go to the second floor. I placed education room on the south side of my floor to seperate the exhibit space and education room space. There is one exterior patio located outside the dining space and visitors can exit from the door and take stairs to go to the second floor as well. On the second floor, I tried to ensure that left side can have a quiet environment since the offices and meeting rooms are all located there; the right side has the education room and the largest exhibit space in my design. The exhibit 4 can also be diveded into two seperate exhibit spaces if it’s unnecessary to use the whole space.
