PROJECT OUTLINE
AE 510 - Intelligent Buildings
Winter 2014-2015
February 3rd, 2014
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA
Prepared
for:
DREXEL UNIVERSITY
3141 CHESTNUT ST
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104
Office: (267-251-7851)
Prepared
by:
Group Members:
Ami
Amegan (aa997@drexel.edu)
Project Outline:
Our building of interest
is the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) in Boston. It is an art museum and
exhibition space located in Boston, Massachusetts. The current facility was
built in 2006 and was designed by architects Diller Scofidio and Renfro. It is
a 65,000 SF building that features a very dramatic folding ribbon form and a
cantilever that extends to the water’s edge. The facade consists of vertical
planks that alternate between transparent glass, translucent glass and opaque
metal. Galleries are located on the uppermost level, which leads to the
provision on a sheltered open space at ground level. Walls are glazed in clear
glass allowing the harbor view to become the backdrop behind the stage.
To complete this
project, we first have to acquire any necessary information on things such as
the overall site plan, square footage, floor plans etc. We have found a
research that was conducted on the building and intend to use it as the main
resource. In addition, we plan to use any helpful scholarly sources including
archives and Wikipedia for general information. While we are expected to use
Revit to model our building, it is inevitable to run into problems, therefore
we will depend on Autodesk help for any problems we may encounter. Students
will also refer to Youtube videos for various tutorials on how to be proficient
in Revit Meanwhile putting together a final document, there will be a weekly
log describing students’ progress as well as problems, and expected future work
for the following week.
The final accompanying
research paper’s table of content will be as follow:
I- Introduction
II- Building Description
III- Revit Model
IV- Technical
Difficulties of model
V- Improvements
VI- Structural and MEP
Suggested Models
VII- Conclusion
An interesting building choice! If your team has ample time you should look into other tools in Revit such as energy analysis, creating MEP, scheduling, estimating, and three-dimensional realistic walk-throughs.
ReplyDeleteThese are tools in Revit? Woah. I had no idea. That sounds like something that we should definitely look into. Thanks for the suggestion, we will definitely be on the lookout for these options and add them to our term report.
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