Introduction
For this assignment, three different and independently developed civil systems were linked together. The systems, which needed to be integrated, were an office building, a building automation system (BAS) and a suspended drywall ceiling. The challenge in integrating the civil systems was to identify their individual features and functions so that they could be combined into one system. In our case, it was suitable to choose the office building as the overall system and to use the BAS and the drywall ceiling as subsystems.
The assignment was accomplished using Autodesk Revit and its plug-in environments Dynamo and Insight. In Dynamo, a script was developed to design some basic building’s elements (walls, floor, roof, ceiling and windows), control window’s components (brise-soleil and curtains), define artificial lighting systems and export primary information into a CSV file. The model created in Dynamo is linked into Revit by the definition of the geometry, placement of Revit families and setting of parameter’s values. Finally, in Insight a lighting analysis is performed in-context of natural lighting capture to report lighting levels throughout the building plan and, as such, to define the best scenarios to adjust the window components in order to maintain the lighting level approximately within a desirable range.
Initial civil systems:
Integrated civil system (office building):