Final Presentation

Mock Presentation

Probing Questions

How has your experience in this course exposed BIM’s influence on architecture:


Graphics and Visualization

1. Exploration and understanding of the role of visual (graphic) communication and how the use of the Building Information Modeling is redefining the scope and scale of professional services

- BIM has provided professional services in a wide range of ways. It has changed the way we interact with professionals, clients, and students. I would prefer using BIM as tool of communication at every stage of the design.

2. Re-prioritization of ways of thinking and designing

- BIM has made me an efficient designer. It has minimized my time producing and maximized my time designing. I am no longer forced to create strenuous steps when developing my ideas or documenting my design. I remember when I was forced to take my SketchUp model and export all the views into other programs in order to produce my drawings. A change from that, is a change worth making.

3. Visualization, documentation and coordination of space

- BIM has developed a world where diagraming, massing, and modeling can be infused into a single virtual space. All components are tied together to create a cohesive and highly accurate model capable of generating views simultaneously. For example, I am able to begin exploring a program by using bubble diagrams that can be controlled in a schedule and later translate into a mass and model.


Technique

4. Understanding the concepts and techniques of digital modeling

- BIM is comprised of families with individual types and parameters, and by understand the various techniques is very valuable. I am now capable of designing components that can be imported into a project or edit/duplicate the pre-existing features. It is important to understand the relationship between part to the whole when developing a 3D model. The constraints are often creating from previous alterations.

5. Investigation of design opportunities in digital design

- It is an essential part of the conceptual phase to be able to create “smart masses” within a BIM program. By smart, I mean easily manipulated. To take a mass and add surfaces and levels to a face, has changed everything. I no longer have to develop these ideas in various programs, but all in one digital realm.

Concepts in Practice


6. Defining the media and method of architectural deliverables

- BIM has changed the way we define architectural practice. Being able to have the opportunity to work in various views that are constructed to provide deliverables in the last phases of design can be rewarding.

7. Comprehension of phases of practice and appropriate levels of documentations

- When working in one realm, amongst all professions needed in the completion of an inhabitable building, BIM has the ability to enable worksharing. The Central model can have different worksets for various assemblies, such as Architecture, Civil, MEP, Structural, etc.

8. Engagement with issues of designing specificity and ambiguity related to the assets and liabilities of digital modeling

- When creating a Central model, it can be liability when the model is shared with other professional consultants, without producing specific shared components. Each addition should be well-documented layer to minimize confusion. Often, when the various assemblies are altered, it can create a chain negative outcomes. When parts are modelled, it is important to design with a level or accuracy shared with all the collaborators.

9. Examination and reflection upon changing ethical and legal responsibilities and liabilities

- When collaborating, there must me mutual level of trust carried out by all members. It is important to document everyone’s progress and give rightful ownership to those who have aided in the design and making of the model.


Professional Development

10. Investigation of the skills that contemporary practitioners must employ for this new digital practice that transcend previous definitions of convention in design and construction

- As methods of technology change, so do those design conventions. It is helpful to have a BIM template set to follow the so called, “drafting” conventions. Then, all members are aware of the different formwork. For example, shared families can be used with the proper alterations to meet a design requirement without reinventing the wheel.

11. Implementation of problem solving and creative thinking skills

- With the right knowledge, BIM is capable of provide solutions to problems that may occur. In a way, BIM can be smarter because it was programmed to seek out those problems and provide a combination of solutions. The warnings and errors aren’t there to prevent us from design the way the user wants, but to point out the constraints we have already placed in the model. In other words, there’s a cause and effect.

12. Synthesis of this knowledge-base within the continuum of professional education and cross implementing techniques and strategies into practice

- BIM is and will continue to be a highly sought out tool in the practice and education because its redefining the way we design and the way we think. Often, it can help us strategize and give form to ideas we were never capable of before.

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