Use images of floor plans, sections, elevations, and 3D views to create a Revit model.
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AI Prompt
Create a new Revit model of the Barcelona Pavilion using these images as guides
Results
I'll build the Barcelona Pavilion in Revit from your drawings: podium, travertine and onyx walls, the two pools, the eight cruciform columns, glass partitions, and the two roof slabs. First I'll check your Revit connection.
Revit 2027 is open with an empty project, so I'll build in it. I'm working in metric from the 1:100 drawings, using the 1.09 m travertine tile as the base grid.
Massing reads correctly against your axonometric. I'll hide the level lines in the 3D views and check the plan against the floor plan drawing.
Plan matches the drawing closely. Saving the model now.
I've built the Barcelona Pavilion model in Revit and saved it as Barcelona Pavilion - Mies 1929.rvt in your Documents folder. You already had a "Barcelona Pavilion.rvt" there, so I used a new name rather than overwrite it.
I laid it out on the 1.09 m travertine tile grid from your floor plans. That makes the podium about 56 × 24 m and the main roof about 25 × 14 m, which matches the archweb 1:100 sheet.
Levels: Ground −1.30, Podium +0.00 and Roof +3.10. I switched the project units to meters to match the drawings.
Podium: a 1.3 m travertine plinth with two reflecting pools cut into it. The large pool is in the courtyard and the small Kolbe pool is in the east court. Each pool has a dark lining and a water surface. The 8-step entry stair is in the southeast notch.
Walls (all tagged by name in Comments):
- Travertine walls around the courtyard and office annex, plus the long north wall with its bench.
- Verde Alpi green marble walls around the Kolbe court.
- The Tinos green marble wall and the onyx doré wall.
- Glass for the north and south glazing, the double frosted light wall and the tinted screen.
Columns and roofs: eight chrome cruciform columns on the drawn grid, and two flat 300 mm roof slabs. The main roof has a skylight over the light wall.
Views: two shaded axonometrics, "BP - Axonometric SE" and "BP - Axonometric SW".
Simplifications:
- The columns are DirectShapes, not a loadable family, so they don't have editable parameters.
- The glass walls are single-panel curtain walls with no mullions.
- Doors, furniture and the Kolbe sculpture aren't included.
- The sloped site is not modeled; the ground is just a level at −1.30.
A good next step would be to replace the columns with a parametric cruciform column family, or to add mullions so the glass matches the elevations.
Claude provides a great starting point for continuing the modeling work.
You can download the Revit model here:
