TABLE OF CONTENTS In this chapter, we ll describe the use of an early conceptual mass model to help you understand program fitness and early feasibility studies. You ll see how easy it is to convert a massing study, whether done within Revit or imported from another application, into building elements such as walls, floors, and roofs. The premise of a BIM approach to design is that a fluid workflow can be maintained as you move from early concept models into design development, and eventual construction documentation, all the while maintaining the same underlying geometry and design intent. Revit provides specifically designed tools that accommodate early massing model studies for program validation and feasibility studies, which can then be quickly converted to real building elements.
You ll acquire the following skills in this chapter:
Leveraging a massing study for program validation and early feasibility studies
Converting a mass into a building using the Building Maker tools
Importing files from other sources when working on massing
A project usually starts with a very rough conceptualization of first ideas in which the architect s mind wanders between the creativity of fantasy and the reality of customer needs, merged with the influence of the genius loci.
Conceptual designs are the first graphical words an architect exchanges with a client to get approval for the architect s first thoughts and sense the temperature of the client s taste. When the initial idea is approved, the architect continues in the next stage of development of...
