Architectural Tech Portfolio

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A COLLECTION OF WORK FROM MY HNC /HND (FIRST AND SECOND YEAR)

NEW COLLEGE LANARKSHIRE

COURSE: COMPUTER AIDED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

TEACHERS: VIVIEN TOWNSLEY LISA NICHOLSON FRANK HULL MICHAEL MCQUIRE

THE COURSE TEACHES YOU OF BASIC ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND HOW TO APPLY THEM

IT TEACHES OF THE TECHNOLOGY OF BUILDINGS AND HOW THEY ARE BUILT FROM CONCEPTION TO REALITY

ALL THE WHILE USING THE BEST PRACTICES AND SOFTWARE FOUND IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY TODAY

Page of Contents:

Backwards Chronologically

HND (Year 2) Graded Unit 2 (WIP/Awaiting Grade)

Pages 01 – 12

HNC (Year 1) Graded Unit 1 (A)

Pages 13 - 23

Worldskills UK and Extra Curriculum

Pages 24 - 34

HND and HNC general sample works

Pages 35 - 47

The class group designed three concepts to be taken forward for further development, this was the concept that our client Keppie Design decided upon.

This is a 3D Site scan that was created to aid within the concept design stage and planning. The scan was created by creating video rotating around the site (Google Earth), then converting it to individual frames. Autodesk Recap and Recap Photo have an AI tool which generates this mesh and textures in collaboration with the ACC. The greater the image clarity and resolution (Input) the better the output, blurry as I used google earth. Some companies use this method however with high quality cameras/drones. The blue cube is where the hotel is located.

This is my year 1 (HNC) Graded Unit

As evident I'm a huge fan of Gehry and Hadid

This project was inspired by the sea and waves the site is situated costal on a peninsula

The idea of this design was to emulate the beach and the sea as the building is on a peninsula on the coast.

The rooms and spaces of the building are rotated in different axis, twisted and warped, in order to make it seem as if they are floating and being manipulated by a tide or a natural force.

The building is predominately wood, drawing inspiration from driftwood. I love architects such as Hadid and Gehry and wanted to create a building in a fashion they would.

The ground floor is made up of a large living space divided into two to the top left, an office space to the top right , the kitchen and dinning is to the south and rest is mostly made up of circulation.

The first floor is made up of 3 bed rooms and a bathroom, as well as an entertainment/games room requested by the client. Almost half the first floor is terraced outside space nested in the ground floor’s parapet.

The second floor houses the master bed room and an ensuite.

I took part in a competition designed to test competency and your overall skills and knowledge within digital construction. The competition was not part of my college curriculum but an extra activity I took part in, in my spare time. I would spend between 2-3 hours a day, and around 3 days each week for half a year training, learning and preparing for the competition final in 2022 November. Software usage, Autodesk Revit, Navisworks, Autodesk Construction Cloud. The competition cycle begins in February/March every year which anyone with (4 years, minimal industry experience and studying a relevant course) can enter from anywhere in UK. Its split into several stages to filter out competitors. After the entry stage there is ‘passive’ stage which filters down the number to around 30, and the next stage is the national qualifier which filters the number down to 8, I came first place out of all Scottish competitors second overall in the UK.

The competition is designed to emulate a real live BIM projects over the space of a day/2 days. We are provided with a project BEP and some drawings which we are expected to adhere through the day to create a building. The building shown was from the national qualifier stage in mid 2022, which is separated into 3 volumes. The entire project is collaborative, all files stored within a Common Data Environment. (ACC used during that year).

Examples The tasks are broken up into the following

Structural (2 Hours):

Setting up Revit template.

Collaborating to work in progress area on the CDE.

Creating grids, levels, worksets, setting the project base point coordinates (Basic project set up).

Modelling all structural elements (columns, beams, slabs etc).

Assigning/export COBie data as per BEP and project requirements.

All the above is done following the given procedures, BEP and additional documents provided.

Validation and sharing of structural PIM within the ACC so accessible to other project teams and stakeholders.

Architectural (3.5-4 Hours):

Setting up Revit template.

Collaborating to work in progress area on the CDE.

Worksets, View filters (Fire plan/strategy) creation etc.

Instead of wasting time creating levels, grids, co-ords etc, the previous file is used, using Revit’s copy/monitor and linking collaborative features.

Model every architectural element, walls, curtain walls, floors, ceilings, doors, windows, stairs etc all the while following the BEP and drawings provided.

Add all rooms and spaces

COBie. Creation of any COBie contacts and importing settings (providing blank parameters), and assign any and all COBie classification data to element parameters and the extraction of data to usable spreadsheets.

Validation process and the sharing of PIM and all created documents within the ACC for other project stakeholders.

Coordination (30 Minutes):

Clash detection of a Structural, Architectural, MEP PIM’s, using Navisworks Manage clash detective tools.

Visual Inspection (30 Minutes)

Visual inspection of a model a provided model of all disciplines federated using the Autodesk Construction Cloud.

The previous is a brief breakdown of tasks during the competition national qualifier over one day. The National Final is over two days and the tasks shown and difficulty increases significantly.

Volume 1 Architectural and Structural PIM

Volume 2 Architectural and Structural PIM

Volume 3 Architectural and Structural PIM

A residential project I designed and created during year 1 to satisfy outcome requirements.

We were given a site in the costal town‘Dunoon’ that’s west of Glasgow. We had a brief and client constraints to satisfy

The clients had busy work lives and children, as well as elderly relatives that would often visit, so it was important that the home be mostly situated on ground level and had space for two offices

A concept for a bank building used to pass outcome requirements

A different cladding concept for the same building

An interior wall concept for the bank and raised access floor

A second Movable partition wall

Drawings created to demonstrate a timber intermediate floor and stair connection

A residential building given for our class to create and detail an electrical consumer unit and its entry to a home

Heating and Electrical outlet plans and schedule