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10 Principles of Architecture | What Is Architecture | Why Need Design Principles in Architecture

CivilJungle

What Is Architecture? The techniques and art of making the layout of buildings and constructing the building are architecture. Architecture is an art. Besides designing and constructing architecture deals with aesthetics. Architecture is just not only art. Why Need Design Principles in Architecture?

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Please don’t clean up my wall intersections.

DebunkTheBIM

I should start with a disclaimer: I model in Archicad 13; That is whenever I need to assess something quickly and am not constrained by other project-needs nor the limitations of the software itself. So, what I am about to write may no longer be an issue in Archicad 14, nor the other modelling packages people use.

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Same, same but different – My mother is not getting paperfreeconstruction, the concept.

DebunkTheBIM

I documented full houses in 3D ArchiCAD 20 years ago in our design studio, while she looked after our children. I designed and modelled iconic commercial buildings in Teamwork Architecture when we moved to a bigger town 15 years ago. Keep doing the same things as always (draw, model, write, read, sketch…) just don’t use the paper.

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Another example why it is better to stay out of BIM surveys…

DebunkTheBIM

First thing, first: “The survey asked a series of questions to establish current usage of both 2D and 3D CAD, as a precursor to determining likely future engagement with Building Information Modelling (BIM).” … actually, this was the question: “When producing CAD drawings, which of the following tools do you mainly use?”

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Nitpicking today – hinging of doors and arrows on stairs.

DebunkTheBIM

Go into any architectural consultancy employing people from different parts of the world and soon you’ll find two of them arguing about the way hinging of doors must be represented on drawings. Cadimage, the NZ Archicad-tool-developer is wisely catering for all tastes in their Doorbuilder. and indicate the opening of the door.

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BIM Objects, Data, and Information – More than a 3D Pretty Picture – Soooo Much More!

Building Information Management

Traditionally, a value that was represented on a drawing may not correctly corresponded with the value within the specification simply due to a ‘typo’ An example being where a ’60 minute fire door’ has been recorded on the drawing but has been recorded as ’90 minutes fire rating’ within the specification.

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Revit Beginners: Instant Section Box

Revit Beginners

Ive been teaching our office how to use Revit Architecture. While in plan view draw a floor plan callout. Im a Revit Beginner with an architectural office in Santa Barbara. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Architectural Desktop. An ArchiCAD Blogger. Saturday, October 21, 2006. Instant Section Box. Subscribe To.

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