I have decided to do my precedent study project 1 on Richard Meier's Smith House. Barring the iconic starkitect name, prior to this term I knew nothing about this architect. Style, time period etc. all drew a blank when I was assigned him in my diagramming class. Now I know that he was a classicist who built in the modern format during the 1960's-90's. Most of his early work has been rendered in white, as is evident in the picture to the right, this makes material choice in Revit easy, ha ha. This building has mainly been an experience in making sure that I completely understand the structure and construction of the building prior to modeling it. Evidence that Revit is not a conceptual tool but an contract document device. Then nice thing is that many of the mistakes I have made are easily fixable with Revit's parametric dimensioning capabilities. The biggest challenges I have faced so far have been the modeling of the exterior stairs. Not only are they curved at the landing but they have a solid wall railing wrapping one side of them while on the other they have a minimal glass and pipe railing. The task that I have not been able to tackle yet is the construction of the main vertical element in the building, the central facade fireplace. The further I diagram this building (for my other class) the more I realize how important it is to be there. I could create a simple form that resembles the actual build fireplace but as in all my digital models I have a need for everything to be physically correct. This has led to many problems in past projects, slowing down of machines, crashing programs, even refusal by some machines to run certain models but it is a problem I am attempting to rectify. The decision to completely model this fireplace stems from it being the most complex thing a significantly small model, and from its significance in the meaning of the main circulation and gathering spaces. Help in this direction will be needed to continue.
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