Category: Revit
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Jacob Schunk Farmhouse
In my recent pursuit to model every building in the registry of historic buildings, I found that there are two located in my hometown of Germantown Wisconsin. One is surprisingly close to the house that I grew up in, that being the Jacob Schunk farmhouse. It was built in 1858 for German dairy farmer Jacob…
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Vertical Log Walls in Revit
In my recent study of Helgaland, I ran into a dilemma. What is the best way to model vertical log walls in Revit? The first thing I tried was using a bump map texture of vertical lines to approximate the log shadows. This didn’t work nearly well enough and I realized I needed to find…
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Helgaland a.k.a. the Gundersen House
Perhaps the coolest house in La Crosse Wisconsin is, in my opinion, Helgaland. Helgaland was the summer residence of Mr. A Gundersen and his wife, Helga. Dr. Gundersen is known as the founder of Gundersen Health System. The home was designed by Bentley and Merman Architects in the year 1918. It is located smack dab…
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Improved Honeybee Model
I started by cleaning up some previous code. I realize now how important keeping a consistent data structure can be. I want to organize my groups using some sort of color code. Yellow for user input, Green for user output, red for calculations or something like that. I’ve seen something like that online before but…
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Honeybee Energy Calculations
There is a very powerful tool for Grasshopper within Rhino 3D. The Ladybug Tools collection includes many add-ons that allow for energy calculations, lighting calculations, air flow calculations, and much more. Building detailed models for energy and light simulations has never been simpler using Rhino’s speedy modeling tools. I find the visual programming workflow that…