Topic: Future residential house

Final report type: 90% paper, 10% design

Explanation: The basic idea of this project is to learn about future residential buildings and trying to design a sample model. The model will only be used to help to give a clearer explanation for the future building, and the evaluation paper for it will be short.  

Introduction

• Background of future buildings
• Why are we curious about future buildings? (Motivation)

Nowadays’ residential houses

• What can the current houses do for the hosts?
• What needs to be improved? and how?
• What improvements are in progressing? and how?

Future residential houses

• What can we expect for the future houses?
• Different ideas from the professionals (the architects, engineers, constructors, and owners) and from the public (who are the customers, the other major students and any other).
• What are the common parts of the ideas?
• What are the different parts of the ideas?
• Challenges

Discussion

• The main aspects of improvements:
• The exterior of the building (Architectural ideas)
• The house system with database controlling (Engineer ideas)
• The environmental friendly control of the building (Scientific, Environmental engineer, and public ideas)
• Group members’ thoughts about future residential buildings based on the above information.

Model

• Pictures showing the sample BIM model designed by the group members with simple explanations.
• The evaluation of the BIM model.

Conclusion

• Summary
• Difficulties while doing the project
• As a future engineer, what will we do for the future residential houses?

The reason why we choose to talk about the building in 10 years is because our group is so curious about the changes in future. We watched a lot of videos in class, and also find many information related with the designs in future. There things are so interesting, and as architectural engineers we really need to be familiar with new BIM technologies. Therefore, we chose this topic, and set some requirements for ourselves.

In our project, we mainly focus on the future buildings; how does the technology, and material will affect the future buildings. Like, in 10 years, the building will be more convenient with all voice or mobile control, and maybe the AI is going to be used in the buildings. And, maybe some new materials will be used to change shapes as the owners' wishes. Therefore, in our project, we will build a simple model with BIM-Revit, and the most of information will be displayed on writing parts. And in our report, there will be five main points: background information, imagination of future buildings, model description, discussions and conclusion. And for the model, floor plans, sections, and 3D view are necessary. Our primary goal is to design a 2,500 square feet and 2-story house in future 10 years based on our research and imagination.

In the discussion, I think my group will talk about the different design concepts in the future and how does the systems change and vary ways to control the system. Also, we may talk about environmental ideas: how to make the building become more environment friendly and how to make the building has the minimum energy consumption. And at last, we will put each members’ opinions about the changes in 10 years later, and to put evidence why these imaginations are possible.

At the end of report, the summary and challenges will be provided. From our thought, the most difficult parts will be the new technology may be created, and how does the construction area changes, robotics.

Comments:

Hanyan, I really like your idea about the BIM. With development of technology, the creativity and innovation are necessary for every designers and engineers. Because the owner will have more and more requirements. and once the designers and engineers want to meet these requirements, creativity and innovation are important.

Alec, your post is interesting. As we known, robotics is one of most important things in the future which will affect a lot of areas, and it’s also going to change intelligent building area a lot. Because we talked about in class, the robotics will release intensive labors, and with enough energy robotics can work 24 hours a day. Moreover, some robotics have already been used in our life. For example, the cleaning robotics, cooking robotics, and construction robotics.