Design Journal Entry: Evaluate Your Alternatives
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Design Journal Entry: Evaluate Your Alternatives

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Your Design Journal entries for this module should include:

  • For 2 or More Units: Create Two New Evaluator Nodes
    • Images showing the node logic in your new evaluator nodes
    • An Image/screenshot of your summary table (created in Word, Excel, Google Sheets, or any data table tool) showing the input values tested and the values computed for each of the reported parameters
  • For 3 or More Units: Develop a Single-Objective Optimization Scheme
    • Brief descriptions outlining:
      • Your Single-Objective Optimization scheme (combination/comparison/ranking approach)
      • An Image/screenshot of your summary table (created in Word, Excel, Google Sheets, or any data table tool) showing the input values tested and the values computed for each of the reported parameters.
        • Be sure to highlight your top 3 recommended design alternatives (for either one the example building forms or the new building form that you designed) and recommend the one design that you consider to be the “best”.
      • An explanation of why you consider the recommended building form to be the “best” choice
  • For 4 Units: Visualize the Recommended Alternative
    • Images/screenshots showing the recommended building form based on your evaluation and analysis.
      • If created in Revit or Grasshopper, show the panelized building form with visual feedback showing how your panels reflect one of the evaluations computed for the panels.
      • If created in Autodesk Forma, share images/screenshots showing the results of the Daylight, Wind, and Solar Energy analysis.
  • Your answers to the Points to Ponder questions for each stage of the assignment that you completed.
  • The link to your Module 6 folder in our Autodesk Construction Cloud project.