The National School - Design Development

Architectural Construction II - Winter 2010

In our second semester of Construction, lecture material focused on the construction of large and structurally unique buildings. Our task, then, was to apply these models to the school buildings we had designed in the previous semester design studio.

Topics addressed in Design Development phase:

• Occupancy
• Life Saftey
• Cost
• Structure
• Enclosure

Because I had designed the building in Revit the previous semester, I was able to fill out the same model during the design development phase, adding the necessary elements and adjusting design features that would have violated code. This gave me the opportunity to push my Revit skills further, even trying my hand at the Structure and MEP iterations of the application.

Project Summary

• Content

  ARCH 427 Construction II
  Winter Semester 2010
  Course Coordinator: Karl Daubmann
  Lab Instructor: Les Key

• Tools

  Building Modelling - Autodesk Revit Drawing - McNeel Rhinoceros, Adobe Illustrator
  Presentation - Adobe Illustrator
• Final Product Bound Design Development strategy book printed on velum paper