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Project 2A: Building Moedling
 
From this assignment I need to understand and apply Revit Architecture's modeling tools to generate a building model. Hence, the production of Revit model of the selected architecture design using Architectural Components such as Wall, Roof, Stairs, Floor, Curtain Wall, Doors, Column, Windows. The building I chose is from Brazil design by the Architect name Oscar Niemeyer in 1951 as his family home. The building name is Casa Das Canoas and is considered one of themost significant examples of modern architecture.

 

Starting
 
In beginning, I need to start up everythings before started to design a building
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Create a wall by adding a line

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Fillet arc on the corner of the wall

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In place a mass to create a curve wall

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Draw with spline to create curveness

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Click the create form to extrude the wall

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Click the wall on Massing & site category

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The curve wall had been formed

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The type of curve still can be change

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Using the same method to create another curve wall on ground floor

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This was the 3D of the new curve wall

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Than, create all wall on the ground floor

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We can choose unconnected height to first floor, it will auto reduce the height to reach the limit or can using attach top base.

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Create a hole by edit the wall. than create another circle it will auto boolean

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After edit, the hole had been formed between the wall

1) Wall
 
The wall creation is much more faster than in autocad, 3ds max and rhino. Hence, it also able to auto join the wall when it meet each other or intersect without trimming like traditional software. It was a win-win method which save time and precise.
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Create an architecture template

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Insert an plan to trace the building

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Use wall or model line to measure before scale up

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After put a correct measurement

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Scale up into a proper dimension

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Copy to clipboard so that could recopy a new image onto other plan view

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Adjust the elevation height and create new floor

2) Floor
 
To create floor, we not just only must create a line to trace. We still can pick the line and choose the wall, it will auto create the line after chosen. That speed is unbeaten.
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Click floor on architecture category to create a slab

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We still can change the floor type on properties tab

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The floor had been formed can be shown in 3D

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Create another floor slab on ground floor by using pick lines

3) Roof
 
The roof is able to create curve by using spline and it can set a limit for the wall to avoid extrude above the roof. It save the time on trimming the extra extrude wall.
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Create the roof by using spline to make curve wall

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After done we still can edit such as move, add or delete the point.

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After all the process, the curve roof had been formed, eventually it still can change it roof type. Hence, we still can select the wall to add top/base to the roof to control the wall height.

4) Stairs
 
Stair was one of the complicated and waste time because it needed to calculate in tradional software. While in Revit it saves people such as it will auto generate and calculate the riser, thread, thickness in short time. So we dont need to squish our brain juice.
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Create a staircase by using run

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Click a point than pull it and determine how many thread I needed.

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The staircase had been form but the floor had been blocking to walk up, so needed to create an opening by using shaft.

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Create a shaft opening on architecture category, using pick lines and lines to create an opening.

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The staircase and opening in 3D

5) Pool
 
Using shaft opening to boolean it to create a pool in no time and enable to edit the shape of shaft opening.
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Create a shaft opening for making pool

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Adjust the height of shaft opening

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Create a mass than transform to floor

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The mass will boolean the wall to create a hole

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The hole had been appear

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Create another mass to create pool

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Pick the lines and offset when create the mass

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Transform the mass into floor and adjust the height

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The pool had been create

6) Column
 
Column is a structural component, it can be auto place on each level u need and what the height of it by using unconnect to which level.
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Create a column on structural category, if want to change a new column. Enter the edit type and choose load and find column category. Than choose the column needed.

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Can change the column type on properties tab and remember using vertical column unless need to make slanted column

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It can be copy to move on another side to support the roof

6) Curtain Wall
 
Curtain wall is the favourite architect component in modern era, in Revit u can just simply choose the linear wall or even curve wall and choose storefront it will auto generate and be adjust the distance on horziontal and vertical spacing. Hence, It also can be auto generate them mullion. This was one of my favourite component in Revit.
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Loading a double sliding panel from the door category

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Insert the door into wall, it will auto generate and adjust the height and length

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This is plan view of the door

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Select the wall to convert to storefront

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Unpin it so the mullion can be deleted

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Adjust the wall profile

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Unpin again to delete unwanted mullion

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Create another small pieces of wall

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The left elevation side of curtain wall had done

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Pick a line and create the form to make wall

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Applied the massing wall on lower part

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Applied curtain system on upper part

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Click the create system to form panel

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Adjust the fixed distance on each panel glass

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Can be adjust on properties tab also

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To create mullion by adding from grid lines

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The mullion had been create

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The front elevation of curtain wall had been create

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Unpin it

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Convert to glass to glass door

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The glass door had been converted

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create segment on curtain wall to add mullion

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Right elevation of curtain wall had been done

Revit Family Components
Revit also famous in parameter where autocad and 3ds max cant be doned but still rhino can be work in grasshopper or others plugin. In this assignment I had create 3 family which are taper cube window, door and doorknob. It took a time to learn how to add parameter by using refrence line and can be adjust to any length, width, height of the component.
 
Taper Cube Window
 
Create a new familiy componenet by choosing metric window. I had make a custom form of window by using blend to create taper cube-shaped and loaded into the building. I also make sure that the window is avaible to para on the length, width and height.
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Create a new family for edit a custom window

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Choose metric window

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Choose blend to create taper cube form

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Than rotate the form to align with the direction of wall

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Adjust the top base to create taper

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Pick a plane on selected object, so anything will work on that plane

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Assign glass material on glass

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Choose sweep to prepare sketch a path

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Than lock the line after pick the line on the edge of glass

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than choose the profile of Square Rail 20mm or create own profile

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Create another frame on another side of window

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3D view of the full frame

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Create another extrusion on top of window as shading devices

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Than move all the edges of taper cube window on each side to lock it. so that it could be parametric

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Create another dimension align on both reference line

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create an equal trasnform when increase the width

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Ready to check whether could be transform in family types

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It had success trasform

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It had success transform

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Create a reference line

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Create a parametric of window width

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Remember to lock it between the ref lines and window

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Decrease the width of window

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It success trasnform

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Create another extrusion on bottom

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Create reference line

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Add parameter of outer window width rightward

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Add parameter of outer window heigth rightward

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Final of taper cube window

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Plan view of the window

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loaded window onto the building

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Final taper cube window on the building

Door Knob
 
Create a door knob by using generic model family. Using revolve the create by adjusting the boundary line and axis line.
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Create a revolve, purple is the boundary line and blue is axis line.

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The drawing had done to ready become 3D door knob

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Load the 3D door knob load into project (door)

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The door knob had been loaded, need to be rotate

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Elevation view of door

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Adjust the doorknob offset and adding the formula

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Same applied to doorknob offset ext

Parametric Door
 
The door was quite a like as window. Create a door by using sweep for the frame and extrustion for the panel. Than add in reference line for add parameter to adjust any number I like in future.
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Select metric door family

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Create a reference line to add parameter

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Add frame width of 75mm

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Add another reference line on left

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Lock the locker once applied the reference line

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Assign dimension to make it equal

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Frame had been create

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Lock the line once

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Adjust the extrusion thinkess and lock it

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Add another parameter of the panel

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The panel thickness was 40mm

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The panel had been create

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Create panel in 2D

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Create Arc line

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Adjust the width to check whether it can be moved

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Un tick all visibility settings

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Create sweep along the frame line and choose sketch path

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Lock the line so it can be move when adjust the width and heigth

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Drawing the profile to allow sweep

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After sweep in 2D plan

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Assign the panel into sub category

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Assign material color also

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Load doorknob into door

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Than load the door into the building but the doorknob was shown

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Need to un tick the visibility setting

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Doorknob gone but can be view in 3d

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This was the parametric door with doorknob

@2014 by Lim Choon Wah, Reeve | 0311265 | Future Architect | Taylor University

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