Arch 653 - Texas A&M University

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