Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Response to BIM influenced Architecture



1.       Exploration and Understanding of the Role of Visual Communication:
It allows for the creation of very complex hybrid drawings to be created very easily. From a completed model, you could essentially draw infinite different sections, plans, or elevations. You can study how placing one objects changes the plan, section and elevation all at once and with greater ease.
2.       Re-prioritization of Design Process and Methodology:

There is no such thing as designing solely in plan, or solely in section. As soon as you create a floor, you are designing in 3D space. The floor, like everything, has thickness and doesn’t just come in as an unintelligent line. By modeling in 3D, you get a more complete view of what you are designing. You now have to worry about your design in all dimensions right off the bat.

3.       Visualization, documentation and coordination of space:

Because you are virtually modeling your design, you can see what spatial relationships you are creating right from placing in the first walls and floors. You’ll be able to almost ‘inhabit’ the spaces before they are built. You can test different elements and how they relate spatially to your design with ease.

4.       Investigation of design opportunities in digital media:

In revit, every detail, joint, and recess can be investigated and remade from the beginning. BIM allows the user to specialize every element never forcing the user to settle for a ‘just a door’. It opens up every aspect of the model up to be designed and then streamlined. The user has infinite input as to how the building comes together.

5.       Engagement of design specificity and ambiguity:

In BIM, you have to become very specific almost too quickly. If you don’t take time to design ambiguously first, you can get trapped in some of the details before you’ve even hammered out the spaces. If you know how to use revit, it allows for both ambiguous and specific design. In this tattoo parlor, I have utilized conceptual masses to understand and play with the programming of the spaces. In the last assignment, I modeled a wall section and detailing very accurately.

6.       Investigation of skills that Contemporary Practitioners must Employ:

BIM allows designers to produce and test ideas rapidly. It also allows them to test ideas in 3D space and real time. It gives designers a new skill set that takes architects back to the idea of the master builder. With these investigative tools that allow everything to be modified, we are able to get into the nooks and crannies of our design. We can now pound out ideas to get to the right one quicker and easier.

7.       Implementation of Problem Solving/Creative Thinking:
It allows students and professions to ask and answer a lot of questions. By testing out the impossible, we are able to rule out and answer rhetorical questions. It takes our design to new heights and unfound places. More importantly, it allows us to test ideas that wouldn’t normal exist in real life. It lets us imagine the impossible.

8.       Synthesis of Information and Professional Education:

It allows for professional collaboration to be taken more seriously and directly. Professionals can collaborate in the same space, working on the same project. This pushes not only the design forward, but allows professionals to learn from each other. Architects must interface with Engineers who must interface with Landscape designers and so on. Because the field is collaborating and correcting their own wrongs, every professional is learning from another within a different field. Engineers are no longer asked to figure out a structure to hold this building up. Architects and engineers are given this problem and are able to solve it together.

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