Blog 4, Project Outline: A Villa BIM

    The final project is going to design a small-apartment-size villa BIM. The building profile is set to: Located on the outskirts of Philadelphia, with a total living area of approximately 500 square meters, totally three floors, including the basement, the first floor and the second floor. The main rooms include living room, bedroom, kitchen, parking garage and so on. After reading some pictures and plans of the villa model online, I combined these and my life experience and mastery of Revit software to make a rough design of my project.

  

   

1. Overview:
     Right now, in my outline, only two layers of the villa were completed, one layer is 3.3 meters high and the second floor is 3.25 meters high. The overall shape is formed by several sets of rectangular. The second floor separates an open-air balcony as a Large balcony, a place for outdoor recreation. Most of the exterior surfaces of the building are made of 200mm concrete façade, combined with some glass windows.

2.Distribution:
      The villa is positioned as a small family villa. In the uncompleted design, the first floor has a living room, dining room, kitchen, secondary bedroom, parking garage, game room and restroom; the second floor is mainly the master bedroom, cloakroom, living room, lounge, Open-air balcony and lumber room.                            

          First Floor    

                                                                       Second Floor

3.Following Task:
      Next, I will gradually improve the basement and the details of the interior of the building, including stairs and some furniture. And I will finish some related labels and schedules.



Reference:
Alnuaimi, “Overdesign of Villa Structures in Oman”, Dec. 12. 2015, https://doaj.org/article/262b61fa791843fabb9f3b62167fbde3

Bjorhovde, “Connections in steel structures III behaviour, strength, and design : proceedings of the third international workshop held at Hotel Villa”, May, 29,1995,
https://drexel.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/openurl?institution=01DRXU_INST&rfr_id=info:sid%2Fsummon&rft_dat=ie%3D51128040300004721,ie%3D51140003190004721,language%3DEN&svc_dat=CTO&u.ignore_date_coverage=true&vid=01DRXU_INST:Services

Newman, Oscar, “Model security code for residential areas”, 1974, New York: Institute for Community Design Analysis


Comment:
Ren
    Your layout of the outline is very good. You mainly focus on the analysis of the medical industry by BIM technology. Specifically, it can be divided into the application of BIM in the medical industry at present, its advantages and challenges that will be encountered. But I think when  you write the final paper, there should be more examples in it. For example, BIM analysis of a hospital, making readers understand the application of BIM in this field easier. This is just a little bit of my opinion on the final paper.

Weiyi Tang
    The topic you choose is good, and your outline is clear. Firstly, it is the research results of the current building and the future building. And then it is the thinking of the team members on the research results. Compared to just a single study, I feel having own thoughts and ideas is better. You have two team members and hope you have a clear division of labor, which will improve the efficiency of your group.

Alec Silverstone
    The role of robots in future buildings, this topic I think it is very interesting. In the future, robots will definitely play an important role in the intelligent buildings. But in the second part, robot, I think the advantages and disadvantages in first point can be combined with the potential of the future, the third point, because its advantages and disadvantages determine the future role of this technology, so I think this two points are related.