Monday, January 19, 2015

Diversity in Design - 3D Models

The role of an architect is quite diverse. They have to be imaginative and creative and  have a vantage point that is both big picture and focused on attention to small detail.

Students in Mr. Taylor's Architecture Design class were given the task of creating a 3D model of a residence using Autodesk Revit. In addition to recreating a residence, students had to recreate all of the necessary views for a set of construction plans including a floor plan, elevations, section views, detail plans, and schedules. Students decorated the houses using furniture that they downloaded form revitcity.com. The final step was creating an animated walkthrough of the house to show a fully decorated residence.

John said that he learned a lot from this project and was able to build on what he learned in Principles of Architecture to recreate this project using new software. John stated that he enjoyed that fact that "Mr. Taylor gave us freedom to decorate and add elements that appealed to us".


While reflecting on this project, Melanie shared that she initially struggled with this project because she didn't want t learn a new software "Once Mr. Taylor walked us through the process of creating a set of plans, it made more sense and I was open to the idea of learning REVIT. I am so glad I did!"

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