Shiva Prasad Kaitha_ARCH 653 Project 1

ARCH 653 Project 2 - Using Dynamo in BIM

As part of BIM project 1 is considered, “Torre Agbar” tower is designed but when trying to change the color of windows, I faced lot of difficulties in changing them. So I tried to apply dynamo principles to Revit model to change the colors of the panels. Usage of dynamo in Revit model is of great help. As part of project 2, I changed the color of the panels and also overriding the color using solar orientation.

An example to use dynamo in Revit model to control the parameters of mass is illustrated as follows:

Dynamo code to change the mass parameters

Changes noted in the mass wrt dynamo

Changing Panel Colors:

First, the color of the panels is changed and the dynamo script is as follows:

Dynamo script to assign different materials to the model

Excel sheet used to assign different materials to the model in a random pattern

Python script to assign the material to a particular panel based on 'if else' command

Output after running the above code - Building with different colors to the panels

Overriding color in the model using Solar Orientation principles in Dynamo:

For overriding the color in the model, I faced lot of difficulties with dynamo especially to determine the surface. I tried experimenting with lot of commands and at last obtained the desired output. The dynamo script for overriding color is as follows:

Dynamo script to override color using solar orientation

Output Obtained by running the above dynamo script

Project 2 Movie:

Project 1

I designed "Torre Agbar", one of the biggest towers in Barcelona, Spain. It was designed by the architect Jean Nouvel and built by Dragados. This tower marks the gateway to the new technological district of Barcelona. Height of the tower is around 474 feet and consists of 38 floors. Out of 38 floors, four are underground. Design of this tower was inspired by a mountain called "Monsterrat" near Barcelona. This consists of around 30,000 offices and it cost around 130 million Euros to build. The outer structure of the building is as follows:

This building consists of around 4500 windows and made up of glass and concrete. The pictures of the interior floor plan, sectional view and windows is as follows:

As far as my design is considered, from the floor plan, it can be seen that the tower is of circular shape. As the height of the tower increases, the floor size gradually decreases. But, it can be seen from the picture that the size of the floor remains same up to a particular height. Based on this observation, I designed the mass model by selecting 5 floors whose height and radius can be changed parametrically.

After the mass model, then the curtain panel is made by selecting the family "Curtain Panel Pattern Based" and a rectangular curtain panel was created whose size can be changed parametrically.

Then this curtain panel is loaded into the existing model by dividing the surface and placing it on its face. Then by selecting the panel, the material parameter is given as type parameter, so that the material of the panel can be changed after loading the mass model into the project.

Mass model with loaded curtain panel

After placing the curtain panel on the surface of mass model, it is loaded into the project. Mass floors are created in the project by creating the desired number of levels with the help of array tool in the elevation view. By selecting all the levels, mass floors are created and then the concrete floors are created. Once the floors are created, interior plan on the first floor is designed. Then the lights are placed on the level 1 ceiling plan.