The transformative power of BIM.
◦ Which specific thing in this course could not have been done with drawings alone?
◦ Which things were harder in a model than they would have been by hand?
Your building is a set of decisions, most made before you knew enough.
◦ Which decision are you most confident was right, and what evidence supports it?
◦ Which would you revisit, and what would you need to know first?
You produced roughly thirty deliverables across ten weeks.
◦ Which one taught you the most, and why?
◦ Which felt like busywork at the time and turned out to matter later?
Every model in this course was a simplification.
◦ What did your model never know about your building?
◦ At what point in a real project would those omissions become unacceptable?
What's next?
◦ Which part of this work would you want to do professionally?
I want to do landscape architecture of public spaces, and so I would love to work on the surrounding area this building takes up. I am inspired by the solarpunk aesthetic and the use of integrating nature into the foundations of livable spaces, such as vertical gardens. I am not sure if this is possible through the current Forma software, but that is the part I believe that would give me the most joy.
◦ What is the biggest gap between what you can do now and what a practising professional does?
Having the real-world knowledge of how these designs are implemented on site. How accurate are these models to the real fabrication of these ideas? And also, what is the feasibility? Currently, I am designing in the realm of an architect, and not as a structural or thermal engineer, for example. So, as I move forward with this design, I’m not sure if these models are physically possible.