Richard Garber – BIM Design

Ogni lunedì un libro per iniziare la settimana, e questa settimana ci rifacciamo gli occhi. Per gli amanti dei casi studio, per chi è interessato al processo ma ancora di più ai progetti, BIM Design a cura di Richard Garber, una delle pubblicazioni di AD – Architectural Design, è una festa per gli occhi: si tratta infatti di una selezione di progetti fiore all’occhiello di quello che viene definito potenziale creativo del Building Information Modelling.

Richard Garber,
BIM Design – Realizing the Creative Potential of Building Information Modelling
ed. Wiley

Con una prefazione di Mario Carpo, un cui titolo ho consigliato appena qualche lunedì fa, si compone di otto capitoli di impianto teorico, inframezzati da sezioni su casi studio completi.

I capitoli sono:

1. Information Modelling Today;
2. The Master Builder and Information Modelling;
3. The c(reative)onstruction process, then and now: The Curious Case of Construction Documents in 20th-Century Practice;
4. New Methods: New Tools;
5. The Digital States and Information Modelling;
6. Strategies for Component Generation;
7. Assemblies and their Simulation;
8. Conclusion: authorship and lines of development.

… The greatest industrial innovations have always, in the end, been communicational … Virtually all gains in efficiency are derived from being able to extract ‘work’ or value from social reservoirs. To say this [in] another way, we must acknowledge that ‘communication’ is a very profound and rich thing, and while it is the foundation of what we are, it is neither exhausted or explained by the one-dimensional activities and apparatuses within which we increasingly confine our lives.

– Sanford Kwinter, interviewed by Johan Bettum, March 2007

I casi studio invece riguardano:

• SHoP: Architects, Control and Construction. The Barclays Center.
  • BIM as a Driver for Virtual Construction;
  • The Barclays Center. Design and BIM Efficiencies;
  • Specific BIM Process.

• Morphosis: Design Intent and Digital Iteration. Perot Museum of Nature and Science.
  • Structure of Design Services and Risk Mitigation;
  • A brief history of information modelling at Morphosis;
  • Perot Museum of Nature and Science, design and control of precast patterning;
  • Utilization of precast concrete and specific panel development at the Perot Museum;
  • Additional leverage of BIM.

• Populous: Curvilinear Workflows. Aviva Stadium.
  • Aviva: building site and design;
  • Stadium development;
  • Digital Contract Responsibilities;
  • Structural Design and Coordination;
  • Shop Drawing Review Process.

• Gro Architects: Dense Agendas. Jackson Green Housing.
  • Jackson Green: a new model for manufactured housing;
  • Data Transmission to the Modular Prefabricator.

• Reiser + Umemoto: architecture by (semi) remote control. Kaohsiung Port Terminal.
  • Design Process;
  • Kaohsiung Port Terminal;
  • Digital Design and Development – By Remote Control;
  • To actualization.

• Gensler: simulation takes control. Shanghai Tower.
  • Gensler in China;
  • The Design Process and Digital Technology at Gensler;
  • Shanghai Tower: simulation of the information model, the double facade;
  • Building Actualization.

• UNStudio: Knowledge Architecture for a life(cycle) education executive agency and tax offices.
  • The role of The Digital;
  • HardBIM and SoftBIM;
  • Education Executive Agency and Tax Offices;
  • BIM and sustainable development;
  • Facade development.