Architectural Concept

Model Studies

At first we came up with 3 initial concepts:

1. The two volumes with pitched roof , which intersect themselves.

2 A flowing roof, which is similar like a mirror of the slope.

3 Four modular houses, in that pre-fabricated are considered.

From the architectural perspective, we want to suit the building better with the geography With the consideration of the huge snow load, the flowing roof doesn´t seem to be the most suitable option because it can be quite dangerous when there is a heavy snow. But we also want the building to have a tendency of going down. Therefore, we finally combine the idea of the flowing roof and pitched roof and considered a folded roof.

Design Focused Modelling

In the process of modelling the building in Revit, the team faces problems with modelling more complex geometries of the folded roof. Due to the technical possibilities and limits of Revit and a larger prior knowledge in Rhino, the folded roof are modelled with the following work around.

After exporting the Revit model via a “dwg” file, the poly surface are modelled in Rhino based on the position of the exported Revit model. These surfaces are then imported back to Revit, creating in-place masses by using “sat*” files. In the end, the roof are modelled over the imported mass surfaces.

After the roof is integrated into the Revit model, the team have to deal with another problem occurring due to the more complex geometry. When trying to connect the walls to the roof, the program is not able to carry out this order for all walls. To solve this problem, we should create the roof as a whole piece so that there’s no gaps between the collective folded roof and the walls will be connected to it perfectly afterwards.