Course Syllabus

ReThinking BIM

Session A: A4715

John Lee jjl2197@columbia.edu

Brian Lee bjl2136@columbia.edu

Thursday 7-9pm

Fayerweather 202

Our capabilities as architects today to create and leverage organized data rich models is rapidly expanding the possibilities for us to design and understand what we build and how we can build it. Moreover, this kind of data literacy is becoming more essential today as our lives are becoming increasingly saturated with structured information that provides invaluable insights and feedback. BIM methodologies and platforms allow us as architects to design, simulate, analyze, and construct buildings in a way that provides us this opportunity to build at greater complexity and understanding.  

This course is intended to provide foundational knowledge of BIM strategies and platforms used in the industry today. Utilizing Revit, students will first model an existing piece of architecture in New York City as a means to learn the basics of the tools, and then re-design it with this new toolset according to a conceptual proposal they put forth at the beginning of this session A course.

The session B course, Integrated Parametric Delivery, further expands upon the foundation of ReThinking BIM, and focuses on the development of workflows and concepts in the Rhino/Grasshopper platform and its extensive component libraries for simulation, analysis, optimization, representation, etc…

Students will use Autodesk Revit and Dynamo this session A course.

Schedule:

WEEK 01   ‐ Lecture // BIM & Parametric Relationships, Project Introduction

WEEK 02  ‐ Lecture // Basic Revit Tools

WEEK 03   ‐ Lecture // Custom Component & Design Options, Project Proposal

WEEK 04   ‐ Lecture // Adaptive Components, Nesting, and Panelization

WEEK 05   ‐ Lecture // Advanced Panelization, Data Management, Documentation, Rendering

WEEK 06  ‐ Help Session // Desk Crit