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Modeling of The Built Environment

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    By the end of the course overall aims should be achieved as follows: • Enrich the student's basic knowledge about digital computer Modeling software and methods. • Develop the student's ability to use the most famous architectural software to generate architectural models. • Train students to specify the most suitable software to produce their digital models according to their needs
  • Course Goals
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

ARC142 OR ARC241

Description

  • English Description

    use computers as a medium for 3D modeling, form generation, and the analysis and evaluation of architectural design models. Students are introduced to concepts of wireframe modeling, surface modeling, solid modeling, parametric modeling, and generative design, and are exposed to software tools such as Rhino and its graphic algorithm editor Grasshopper. This course introduces the principles of building information modeling (BIM) and how it is used, through tools such as Autodesk Revit and other analysis tools, to model, analyze, and evaluate designs, with an emphasis on form-finding and performance-based evaluation. Students are also introduced to the principles of geographic information systems (GIS) to create, analyze, and visualize the built environment on different scales.
  • Arabic Description

    use computers as a medium for 3D modeling, form generation, and the analysis and evaluation of architectural design models. Students are introduced to concepts of wireframe modeling, surface modeling, solid modeling, parametric modeling, and generative design, and are exposed to software tools such as Rhino and its graphic algorithm editor Grasshopper. This course introduces the principles of building information modeling (BIM) and how it is used, through tools such as Autodesk Revit and other analysis tools, to model, analyze, and evaluate designs, with an emphasis on form-finding and performance-based evaluation. Students are also introduced to the principles of geographic information systems (GIS) to create, analyze, and visualize the built environment on different scales.
  • Department
    Architecture Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (15) + tr.Major Assessment (45 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 50% , tr.Self_learning 10% , tr.Seminar 0% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + tr.Oral/Practical (35) + Exam Grade (0)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 1, Tutorial Hours: 3, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    100
  • Equivalent ECTS
    4
  • Recommended books
  • - Algorithmic Architecture, by Kostas Terzidis, Routledge, 2016
  • - Parametric Methods for Beginners: Architecture Applications By Umut Toker, Taylor and Francis, 2022
  • - Parametric Design for Architecture by Wassim Jabi (Author), Brian Johnson (Afterword), Robert Woodbury (Foreword), Quercus Publishing, 2013
  • - AAD Algorithms-Aided Design. Parametric strategies using Grasshopper by Arturo TedeschiLe, Penseur Publisher, 2014
  • - BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers, and Contractors by Chuck Eastman, Paul Teicholz, Rafael Sacks, and Kathleen Liston, Wiley, 2018
  • - Building Information Modeling: BIM in Current and Future Practice by Karen Kensek and Douglas Noble, John Wiley & Sons, 2014
  • - BIM and Integrated Design: Strategies for Architectural Practice by Randy Deutsch (Author), Wiley, 2011
  • Periodicals, Web sites, … etc
  • - https://grasshopper.com/
  • - https://www.grasshopper3d.com/
  • - https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/bim - Parametric Methods for Beginners: Architecture Applications By Umut Toker, Taylor and Francis, 2022.