University of British Columbia has one of the most interesting sites in the city of Vancouver, right in the middle of downtown at the most public square in the community - Robson Square. The site is incredibly contentious, with many parties having a say in what happens on the land.
I had the pleasure of working with Designer, Kim Glauber and Project Architect, Doug Hamming; both of whom had been on the project a couple of years before I came along. The project needed to produce a set of schematic drawings to go another round of public engagement sessions and I was given the opportunity to help make this a Revit project.
Interestingly, there was a surveying company in town that had lidar scanned the site and covered the point cloud into an IFC model that I was then able to bring into Revit. I used a deductive modeling approach to capturing the glazing system in Revit so the glass box could have a parametric relationship (hosted by reference planes) between the complex primary structure.
Kim, was crucial in the BIM at the Human Scale research to figuring out the spherical output from 3DSMax and made this one of the first projects at Stantec to be showcased in mobile Virtual Reality.
This project was a great showcase of modeling approach and was selected as a Case Study Project to present at the 2016 North American RTC Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.