The transformative power of BIM.
◦ Which specific thing in this course could not have been done with drawings alone?
I think that the analyses such as daylight, wind, noise, etc., are very useful aspects of BIM, which would be very difficult to show in drawings.
◦ Which things were harder in a model than they would have been by hand?
Smaller details, especially for facades, might be easier to show through hand-drawn drawings. In a model, I think they try to keep details minimal for data and viewing.
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?
There has been no structural analysis of whether the building is even feasible to build. So the model can look very put together, but until engineers, contractors, and others come in to weigh in with their professional opinions, the model is likely not the final product. We have also not accounted for MEP and necessary equipment/facilities in the model yet.
◦ At what point in a real project would those omissions become unacceptable?
I would say that you should start figuring out the details listed above and more before contacting subcontractors and estimating costs/list of materials. It would be a waste of work to do these steps before making sure that the model can actually be constructed.
What's next?
◦ Which part of this work would you want to do professionally?
I do enjoy the problem-solving of different aspects of design not lining up or conflicting with each other, so I could see myself either helping to fix these problems in modeling in the office or on site during construction.
◦ What is the biggest gap between what you can do now and what a practicing professional does?
I feel like there are some huge gaps, and that experience/connections in the construction world can get you very far. I am starting to learn basic levels of modeling and all of the aspects to think about in terms of resdiential/commericial buildings, but I think there is a large difference between what might look appealing versus what is realistic. It is fun to play around with modeling, but I think I have to learn a lot more about structural design and construction.