WEEK 4: BIM’S CONTRIBUTION

26/03/17 — Individual reflection on our progress

A summary written collectively as a group to outline how we will be contributing to the PAVILION DESIGN PROJECT.

GROUP 2: “THE INFORMATION LAYER”…will be focusing on facilitating the exchange of information, documentation, planning and collaboration between groups, during the pavilion design project.

Collaboration

By collaborating between the Digital Making, Digital Fabrication and IOT/Smart Building group, many iterations will be created and visualised between the VR Group. Our role is to enhance this collaboration through understanding aspects about each group’s specific workflows and aims. This understanding of file types and links between softwares, will ensure work is transferred seamlessly between platforms.

Syncing Workflows

We aim to establish a clear connection between the workflows of groups by providing fabrication groups with essential documentation. The exploration of file types is critical to ensure a fluid connection between groups with an updated main model to work on, which can be used to create different exported files for specific areas of the design outcome. File types — 3DS Max (FBX), Rhinoceros/Grasshopper, Revit/Dynamo.

Documentation

Our work focuses on providing all teams with fundamental documentation (coordinated and updated 3D model files) and scheduling (File exports to specific groups and coordination of fabrication/construction) to ensure everyone will work on the same project with clear guidelines and goals.

• Documentation types

2D Documentation — mainly for fabrication purposes

• Plans, sections, elevations
• Larger contextual drawings and layouts
• Joints and connections

Scheduling

• Extensive lists of all items making up the pavilion i.e. members, joints/connections, materials.

Softwares

• The utilisation of Revit and Dynamo as a documentation tool to enhance the way we present geometry, data, and plans to other groups. By looking deeply into Dynamo packages, it will ensure we find the most efficient solutions to workflow or data transfer issues.