Creating Walls, Partition walls and Floors for a residential layout using REVIT

CREATION OF WALLS, PARTITION WALLS AND FLOORS FOR A RESIDENTIAL LAYOUT USING REVIT

Introduction:

The revit platform for Building Information Modelling is a design and documentation system that supports the design, drawings and schedules required for building project. Bim delivers information about project desgn, scope, quantities and phases when you need it.

Architecture tab of the revit software contains various basic options to help the creation of a structure and these are:

• Wall: creates non-structural wall in building model.
• Door: adds door to the building model.
• Window: adds window to the building model. 
• Components: places an element in the building model, based on a selected element type.
• Column: adds a vertical load bearing element to the building model.
• Roof: creates a roof using building footprint to define its boundaries.
• Floor: Creates a floor for the current level of the building model.
• Ceiling: creates a ceiling at a specified distance above the level in which it resides.
• Curtain system: creates a curatin system on the face of a mass or generic model.
• Curtain grid: creates a grid line in the curtain wall or curtain system.
• Mullion: creates a vertical or horizontal mullion in a curtain grid.
• Railing: creates a railing by sketching therailing path.
• Ramps: adds a ramp to the building model.
• Stairs: adds a stair to the building model by creating a coomon run, landing and support components.
• Then various other options include rooms, room tag, area, tag area etc.

Structure tab helps in creating structural elements of the building.

Steel tab contains steel related elements.

System tabs contain vaious systems like ducts , fabrication systems etc.

Insert tab helps in inking other files to the revit file.

Annoatate tab contains options to add texts dimensions etc to the building model.

Analyze tab helps in the structural analysis.

Collaborate tab helps in collaborating works of various disciplines.

View tab contains various options to view the building model.

Manage tab, Add ins tab and modify tabs are the other tabs in the ribbon of the revit software.

1.

Aim:

To create the floor for the layout created in week 2 and provide appropriate material and thickness to the floor.

Procedure:

• Initially open the week 2 assignment.

• Now, inorder to create the floor, go to Architecture tab of the ribbon and choose the floor option.

• Now choose pick boudary line option and select the exterior wall an click the tick mark in the mode.
• Now, go to property browser and nd click edit type. Duplicate the floor name as Generic-4" .
• Then edit the structure option to change the material (oak flooring) and thickness to 4".
• Then click ok and apply.

• Hence, the flooring is applied.

2.

Aim:

To add the wall to the floor layout and provide materials and approprite thickness to the wall created.

Procedure:

• Open the week 2 revit file.
• Then, click on walls in the architecture tab of the ribbon.

• Then move to property browser to edit the wall thickness.
• Change the top constraint to level 2.
• Provide the wall thickness as required.

• Now, in property browser go to edit type for walls and edit the structure option to change the material and thickness, if needed.

• Then click ok and apply.
• Hence, the wall thus created as shown below:

2.a) According to me, connecting walls with associated level is beneficial. This is beacause any change in the height of the levels will be aautomatically reflected in the walls too. This reduces our effort to orient it accordingly.

2.b) Modelling walls by height or by depth, both method is convenient, but I mostly use by height method, as we can adjust the height of the wall as needed more easily.

3.

Aim:

To copy the model elements modelled to ground floor level and paste it aligned to first floor level.

Procedure:

• Inorder to create the next floor, initially move to front view, i.e elevation.

• Now, select the enitre floor.
• Then in the modify tab choose copy to clipboard.
• Then in the paste option: aligned to selected level --> Level 2.

• The 3D view is given as:

• Front elevation in realistic view:

 4.

Aim:

To create interior partition walls to create separate rooms within the residential unit. The model must include the following rooms:

a. Living Room/ Drawing Room ( 15’ X 18’)
b. Dining Room (9’ X 11’)
c. Bed Room ( 9’ X 12’ and 15’ X 11’)
d. Rest Room ( 10’ X 12’ )
e. Kitchen (8’ X 10’)

Procedure:

• Initially, go to architecture tab --> walls . 
• Then in the properties select interior walls and create the model from the layout created.
• Then again go to architecture tab --> choose components --> load family --> Then include furnitures, lightings, beds, chairs etc in the model.

5. 

Aim:

To add the components that should be included in a residential unit like furnitures, doors windows etc.

Procedure:

• Go to  architectural tab --> components --> place a component --> load families --> Then add different coponents like doors and windows, furnitures, lightings, shelves etc in the residential model created.
• Then go to view tab --> camera. Then create views of different rooms.

a) Doors and windows in the walls:

b) Living room components are:

c) Dining space components:

d) Bedroom (2 bedrooms identical) components are:

e) Restroom components are:

f) Kitchen components are: 

g) Work area components are: 

Result:

1.  The floor created is given below:

Material: Oak flooring

Thickness: 4"

2.  The wall added is given below:

Material  : Brick soldier course

Thickness : 8"

2nd question (a) and (b) explained above.

3.  The model elements in the ground floor level copied to and aligned to first floor level:

4.  The interior partition walls created to separate the rooms in the residential unit is: 

5. Components added in a residential unit :

a) Doors and windows in the residential unit:

b) Living room:

c) Dining room:

d) Bedrooms:

e)  Rest room

f) Kichen:

g) Workarea: