TECHNOLOGY
Whole-Building Shrink Wrap Turning Your Complex Revit Model into a Lighter, More Portable Tool
Our quality of digital craftsmanship
invaluable data.
depends on accuracy, completeness,
building’s energy performance for
extraneous data. The “Shrink Wrap”
properties of the Revit model to cast
a client conversation, or float some
tool uses Revit “room” elements
a solid skeleton form of the building
and many shared layers of detail.
Sometimes, however, we don’t need
hypothetical revisions to one aspect
to identify key building elements
which can then be manipulated and
Our BIM models encapsulate
all the project data to complete a
of the design without committing to
and their bounding properties –
analyzed. (More specifically, the
a project’s worth of geometry,
smaller task, and we don’t want to
major changes?
floors, walls, roofs – and create a
technique uses the Dynamo tool in
decision-making, collaboration, and
compromise the integrity of the
condensed framework of shape and
Revit and involves creating a blank
coordination; our projects may start
shared model while we explore the
LS3P’s Digital Practice Team has
massing. Much like the process of
model, linking the destination file into
out as loose concepts, but gradually
answer to a question. What if a client
been working on a technique that
making a mold of a complex object
it, identifying the bounding properties,
harden into a final design with input
wants to change the roof, or add a
will create a simple, portable, and
like a human hand, removing the
joining them as 3-D elements, and
from a multidisciplinary team. The
floor, or experiment with changes
editable massing model that will
hand, and creating a duplicate out
then turning them “inside out” to
compounding layers of complexity
to an addition? What if a team
facilitate smaller design studies
of plaster, the Shrink Wrap process
make a cast of the envelope.)
bring with them massive amounts of
wants to create a snapshot of the
which are not weighed down by
taps into the existing figure/ground