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Project 2 - United Tower - Building Information Modeling - Arch 653 Texas A&M University - Farshid Moosavi

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Project 2 (Fall 2017) Building Information Modeling - Course 653 - Texas A&M University The purpose of this project is to utilize Dynamo as a visual programming plugin to boost the strength of parametric modeling in project one.  So obviously the final product of the first project has been chosen as an input for the second project.        Figure 1  I divided the second project into three stages and will explain each with screenshots of the Revit and Dynamo interface. At first, in Dynamo interface, I Defined the parametric features regarding height and angle in the project 1. As you can see in figure 2.                                                                                   Figure 2 The imported nodes accept a string, so I changed the parameter groups in project 1 to text. It’s just the first solution came to my mind. There are better solutions for sure. Figure 3 is showing that.                                    

Project 1 - United Tower - Building Information Modeling - Arch 653 Texas A&M University - Farshid Moosavi

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Project 1 (Fall 2017) Building Information Modeling - Course 653 - Texas A&M University For this project, I have chosen to model United tower (Wyndham Grand Manama Hotel), designed by Aref Sadeq Design Consultant. courtesy of: wyndhamgrandmanama.com Looking at the tower, it shows us it is a turning tower and the degree it is twisted is the same from the ground to the roof level. The first challenge in modeling the united tower was the lack of accurate architectural information as it has been built recently. By looking for the tower in google earth, I figured out how it looks from the top view.  Then I started modeling the mas in Revit. To model this tower, I divided it into 5 parts. And as I wanted to create a parametric mass model, I decided to draw a profile in each of those 5 parts letting the user make it bigger or smaller from the middle.  I put five reference points at the center of 5 profiles drawn because I was trying to control th