Overview

In this assignment you’ll design a new multi-story building and then document and present your proposed design using Autodesk Revit.

Choose an Option Based on What You’d Like to Design/Model

Choose any one of these three suggested programs/design briefs for this Design Project:

What’s Expected - For All Options

1. Illustrate your proposed design using a building model that the includes basic building elements for a multi-story design:
1. walls
2. doors and windows
3. floor
4. roof
5. stairs and railings
2. Add furniture and fixture objects to your building model to help create context and illustrate the scale of the rooms and the building. It’d be nice to add elements representing:
1. plumbing fixtures
2. furniture (check the Revit library and online sites like RevitCity.com to see what’s readily-available)
3. cabinetry – for this preliminary design proposal, a great time-saving strategy to consider is:
1. Not spending the time to do a detailed cabinet design and place individual cabinet components.
2. Rather, creating quick In-Place models of your cabinets by extruding some basic cabinet profiles and outlines up from the floor.
3. In practice, after the initial design concept is accepted, you can go back add the detail to the cabinets in the next design phase.
3. Place views of your building model on the provided sheets to “tell the story” of your proposed design:
1. floor plan
2. roof plan (can also be used as a site plan if you show the topography)
3. exterior elevations (all sides)
4. one or two building sections showing the vertical relationships between all the levels and the site
5. a ground level camera view showing your favorite exterior view your design
6. an interior camera view showing your central meeting space/lounge/living room or a key interior space in your proposed design

Some tips for placing views:

• You’ll probably need to crop your views to fit them neatly on the sheets.
• Leave the scale of the plan, elevation, and section views set to ¼”=1’-0. Although the views may seem small relative to the size of the sheet, this is a standard scale that is typically used for plotting and submitting design documents -- so, easily recognized and understood.
• Add additional D-size (36” x 24”) sheets as needed to place all the views that you’d like to share.

Sharing Your Project

Please follow the instructions in the Canvas assignment to upload your building model to your folder on Autodesk Construction Cloud (BIM 360) and create a new post sharing your project on this linked Notion page.

Points to Ponder / Wrap-Up Questions

Please also share your comments on 3 of the Points to Ponder questions listed below in a new posting on this linked Notion page.