Working link to your Revit cloud model in Forma Data Management
https://acc.autodesk.com/docs/files/projects/5d5419bb-7279-4798-a335-4241aa80eeee?folderUrn=urn%3Aadsk.wipprod%3Afs.folder%3Aco.h153NDieQriPkPqdZVXHYA&entityId=urn%3Aadsk.wipprod%3Adm.lineage%3AAymNKL9eR9WWNxx0gVaAFQ&viewModel=detail&moduleId=folders
Working link to your Individual Forma Board
PDF sheet set, 30 by 42 inches (E1 size)
A screenshot of Forma Data Management showing your two published versions side by side for comparison.
Design memo of 250 to 400 words: what your calculated field computes and what it told you, and what you learned about your own design from having to document it.
My calculated field computes the area per occupant in every room. It shows me the distribution of room sizes normalized by number of occupants, or how big the apartments are compared to how many occupants there are. For example, while the three bedroom apartment is 1193 SF, which is significantly higher than the 585 SF studio, the area per occupant is very similar, with the three bedroom having 198.9 SF/occupant and the studio having 195 SF/occupant. On the other hand, the one bedroom apartments have the lowest area to occupant ratio, with the lowest being 158.7 SF/occupant. However, the values may be unrepresentative of real world conditions because the number of occupants calculated using a typical occupant factor may differ from the actual number of occupants. For example, the one bedroom apartments are calculated to have 4 occupants, whereas in reality, it would likely house closer to one or two people. As a result, the actual area per occupant will be different from the values in the schedule.
One thing I’ve learned from my design from documentation is how much decisions from earlier weeks will drive design decisions made in the following weeks. For example, in the first week, I chose to make a very large commercial floor because it helped me reach the gross area requirements for the project while keeping total floor levels below 8-storeys. While I didn’t think much of the decision then, when I started designing the commercial floor this week, I had to consider the size when deciding what to turn the space into. In the end, I chose to make it a grocery store, because it was large enough to accommodate such an establishment. If I wanted to make it smaller, individual stores, which was what I had planned beforehand, many stores would not have had outdoor access, which can limit traffic. As a result, I had to pivot to one retailer who can take up the entire space, which was a decision I made in Module 5 driven by a small decision made back in Module 2.