Working link to your Revit cloud model in Forma Data Management.
M04_Suda_1155Third_ShellCore.rvt — working Revit cloud model (verified 3D preview)
Working link to your Individual Forma Board
https://app.autodeskforma.com/board/up_i2od844v74/board_9ac86b02-f48b-49e3-a944-672f53cfa450
PDF sheet set at D size, 30 by 42 inches, six sheets. Delete any blank sheets.
Screenshot of your Insight result alongside your Week 3 Forma result.
Design memo of 300 to 400 words: what survived the handoff, what you rebuilt, what assembly choices you made and why, and where Revit and Forma disagreed.
I kept the eight-story Adeline bar from Week 3 Option 2 at 1155 Third Street in Oakland. Retail stays on the ground floor, with seven floors of housing above it. The central corridor and west-facing balconies also stayed. These choices continue the Week 2 idea of protecting the courtyard from truck noise while keeping access to daylight.
The overall shape, floor heights, partitions, balconies, doors, and stair geometry came into Revit. The connections needed more work. I aligned the stairs with the shafts, rebuilt the openings, added roof access, and placed the elevator and stair enclosures. The longest sampled route to the nearest exit was 115.4 feet across thirteen apartments on the typical floor. The apartment layouts and enclosure details are still schematic.
I chose a concrete frame and core for the eight-story building, with steel-stud infill walls. The upper walls have fiber-cement cladding, a drainage cavity, five inches of continuous mineral wool, sheathing, insulated studs, and gypsum. The insulation helps limit heat loss through the studs. Porcelain cladding gives the retail base a different finish. I separated the ten-inch concrete slabs from the finish floors and added eight inches of roof insulation. West balconies and three-foot canopies provide shade. The windows use U-0.30, with lower solar heat gain on the east, south, and west.
Forma made it easier to compare building shapes. Revit made me resolve how the walls, floors, openings, and stairs fit together. Insight reports an EUI of 34.98, compared with Forma’s 28 kBtu/ft2/year. Their twenty-year carbon totals are 7.45 and 7.74 million kgCO2e. Insight still flags incomplete material data, and the models use different areas and assumptions, so I cannot treat this as a confirmed improvement. Next time, I would align the core and simplify overlapping openings in Forma before exporting. I would also record the analysis settings so the comparison is more consistent.
