Interior Views

Because I will not have time to render all the screen-shots I grabbed of my building (It took 2.5 hrs to render the exterior), I will post some of them here.

Project Description

The building selected for Project 1 was designed to be headquarters of a company in Chicago. The building was designed as a 40 story office building with amenity floors at the lower levels and office spaces at the upper levels. It was designed as a LEED Platinum building with wind turbines at the building top, building-integrated photovoltaics, rainwater harvesting and ground-source heat pumps.

I reduced the number of floors from 40 to 25 by sloping the south wall 15 degrees instead of 10 degrees in the original design, and simplified the original curtain system. I detailed out the first 3 floors of the building including the basement parking level (In the interest of time, it was not physically possible to detail out all 25 floors). The actual building mass with the sloping south wall and the sloping walls of the 4 roof gardens were modeled in AutoCAD and imported into the Revit project as a building mass. The curtain system was added by face, and the mullions and joints were individually adjusted. Because the mass was imported as an AutoCAD mesh object, Revit could not automatically compute areas and add floors. Therefore, the floors had to be individually added.

Pictures and other details forthcoming.