Leadenhall Building

Please take an our of your time to watch this phenomenal documentary on the construction of the Leadenhall Building in London. The building is entirely modular and the video demonstrates the incredible amount of coordination needed to construct such a structure.

Enjoy!

A1A Revit–Wall Length

Question

Your continuous wall length is = 10 x the number of letters of your last name

Does this mean the longest length of just one wall is 10x the letter of the last name or the sum of all the walls is this length?

 

Response

The intent of this requirement is to define the length of the longest wall.  It is not the sum of walls.

A1 Comments

Most students did a great job on the first assignment! I saw some very impressive and skillfully done websites! Good job!

Here are some general comments for the class:

• Read the rubric! Make sure everything that's on it is included in your website. As long as you cover everything in the rubric in a satisfactory manner, you'll get an excellent great for the assignment. 
• This is not a graphic design course. With that being said, the presentation and quality of your website still do play a big role in your grade. Designing an extraordinary website that doesn't answer the deliverables of the assignment will not earn you lost points. Make sure your site is presentable, but also make sure all of the information required is there.
• Someone needs to read your site. Make clear headings and tabs that would direct the reader effectively. As a suggestion, organizing your site similarly to the rubric would probably be most effective for you to make sure you didn't forget anything, and for the reader to follow the different criteria in an orderly fashion.
• Overall, the responses were very thorough! Keep up the good work!

Cheers,

The graders,

T&S

Revit Assignment Questions

Question

It does not explicitly state that a website is needed for the Revit project, so do we need to create a website for this assignment?

 

Reply

No website required.  Just turn in the files defined in the assignment.

 

Question

I was just wondering if it would be okay if I turned in two plan sheets for my Revit assignment.  I decided to model a 2 story building and due to my overall dimensions, my plans at 1/8" scale are rather large to fit everything required on one page, even with sufficient cropping.  I have it organized right now so there are two sheets, each has a floor plan on it with the other white space containing the schedules, 3D views, and elevations views. 

Reply

Yes, you may turn in two sheets.

Note:  It’s possible to rescale any drawing on a sheet in Revit so you can actually make them fit.

A2 - Prepare for Monday 9/29

For Monday please have the following ready.

• Building Name
• Architect
• Major Engineers
• Building area
• Building Height
• Building location
• Building purpose(s)
• Year completed
• Number of floors
• Floor to floor height(s)
• Structural System Choice(s)
• HVAC System Choice(s)
• Major Architectural Design Challenges
• Major Structural Design Challenges
• Major HVAC Design Challenges
• Opinion - What makes your building special

I may well ask groups to make brief presentations about their buildings.

Class Interests and Skills Survey Results

As promised, here’s a summary of the results of the survey.

Your Concentrations

Design Experience

Construction Experience

Excel Expertise

Revit Expertise

A1 - Structure of Website

Question

After looking through some of the previous class database assignments I noticed that a lot of them include a separate tab detailing course goals and future skills. Is this included in the A1 assignment, or will we be adding that to our website later?

Response

While these aren’t required to be separate tab I’d suggest that past folks chose to emphasize them that way for the following reasons:

• The importance of Course Goals - can be inferred by the grading rubric of “Course Understanding”.  It’s generally a useful question to ask: “why are we doing this?”  A good course should have a good answer to that questions
• Future Skills – is one of the grading criteria titles

AE Rules-of-Thumb and Calculation Tools

The following may be of assistance in ROUGH approximations.

AE Rules of Thumb – Google Sheet with rules of thumb for several systems

AE Calcs Spreadsheet – Basic Calculations for several systems.

• Note that it’s part of the AE-Resources website – Which may have other useful tools
• It’s in the Excel group of AE Tools

Remember that these are only to give you a rough estimate.  They should never be used for actual design.

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