Working link to your Revit cloud model in Forma Data Management.
https://acc.autodesk.com/docs/files/projects/a58b5ae1-155b-40ca-a81d-8778ff3e1973?folderUrn=urn%3Aadsk.wipprod%3Afs.folder%3Aco.C9UwDIxdRRSeIcEgbO-Jow&entityId=urn%3Aadsk.wipprod%3Adm.lineage%3AEn5SHd6JSk6XAdjALrjCvA&viewModel=detail&moduleId=folders
Working link to your Individual Forma Board
DF 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.
All of my rooms and the general structure of my building survived the handoff from Forma to Revit. I needed to rebuild the stairwells, the elevator, and the mechanical shaft because when I went to insert doors, I realized I had made the hallways and access points too narrow. This required going back into Forma to adjust these dimensions, then re-importing into Revit so that I could change all the floor levels at the same time. I also noticed that my facade presented itself differently in Forma than in Revit; in Forma, it appeared that each of my 20-foot module and 30-foot modules for the facade fit neatly into the apartments and there were no cases in which a balcony or window was straddling an interior wall. In Revit, this was the case quite frequently, which I am not sure if the layout simply did not survive the handout from Forma to Revit or if looking at the floorplans in Revit enabled me to see instances in which the exterior elements of the building did not align with the interior.
In terms of wall and roof assembly, I chose my residential wall to be a wood sliding finish with plywood and cellulose as the substrate and structure, respectively. This was determined after researching common residential housing wall materials in Northern California; I also chose wood because I noticed that my preliminary carbon analyses were lower when I used wood and I assumed this was a more sustainable assembly. For the commericial wall, I again researched common commericial wall materials in Northern California and constructed mine out of gypsum and plaster/stucco. For the roof, I made a green living roof with a concrete base layered with soil on top. The soil on the roof would function as insulation and reduce carbon emissions from heating/cooling the building. Although I did like the look of wood paneling for the residential portion and dark stucco for the commericial portion of the building, much of my assembly choices were driven by an attempt to make lower carbon design choices.
