Creating a virtual house as the foundation for technical documentation, simulation and visualisation

In small groups of three, students produce the virtual model of a family house based on a published, architectural foundation. Upon creating a joint virtual model and the technical documentation, students work on their own to produce a visual model; each of them represents the house in their own manner (realistic model, replica, various times of the year, etc.) The virtual model is the basis for all other simulations, for example, the analysis of the energetic efficiency of the building, a simulation of the construction and load, daylight simulation which is an additional, facultative part of the research on the house.

In this semester students create a BIM model of the building as the basis for a simple simulation and visualisation, and for a dynamic presentation of their work.