V.BAHNA Revit Portfolio 2022

REVIT PORTFOLIO

PROGRAM STUDY, FALL 2022 VICTOR BAHNA

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VICTOR BAHNA

4th year Architecture Student

BACHELOR’S IN ARCHITECTURE GRADUATION SPRING 2024

INTERESTS, TRAINING, EXPERTISE

INTERESTS

> Historic Preservation

> Adaptive Reuse

> Infill Design

> Housing

My name is Victor Bahna, and I am a 4th year Architecture Student whos primary interest is in historic buildings and adaptive reuse.

My achievements in both architectural and non-architectural endeavours primarily involve working with historic objects and contexts. The beauty found in historical creations is one that has deeply interested me for the majority of my life.

In studio projects, my favorite new constructions I have designed are those which place a building in a historic context. I believe that the ability to blend history with modernity is something that every architect should know how to do.

Outside of studio, I run a business where I restore historic light fixtures from the 1900s-1930s to their original appearance and resell them. This spawned out of a larger love of antiques and a desire to restore what I could find. My light fixture restorations are something I hold very close to my heart and I consider it to be an important step in my endeavours because I directly involve myself with the restoration of historic furnishings.

Once I graduate, my long-term plan is to first work here in the Pacific Northwest for several years, helping to restore and preserve the historic fabric of cities like Seattle, Portland, and Astoria. Beyond this, I am ultimately hoping to move abroad to Italy to largely do the same thing:

restore and preserve the many historic and ancient buildings and cities, and update them for the modern world while preserving their unique historic character and elements.

IMAGE: ANTIQUE LIGHT FIXTURE

Circa 1914 Flush-Mount “Pan Light” restored and rewired. Highlights painted blue.

ANTIQUE RESTORATION

MY ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE OF REVIT

One of my favorite hobbies is restoring antique and historic objects, especially antique light fixtures.

ANTIQUE LIGHT FIXTURES

Heritage light fixtures are a valuable part of historic interiors and characteristically beautiful standalone objects, but many have been neglected.

I have successfully restored seven antique light fixtures. The first was a heavily rusted light fixtures from the 1950s: I removed the rust and repainted it. The next four were all flush-mount cast iron “pan lights” from the 1920s to the 1930s. Three of the four had traces of their original paint, and I restored their original colors to the best of my ability. The fourth antique fixture was so badly rusted that no paint remained, but I still painted it in complementary colors. The final two were antique brass fixtures. The first was a hanging chandelier, and the second was a large “pan light.” Both had paint on them that needed to be removed to reveal the brass. After that was done, the hanging chandelier was left completely bare, while highlights on the “pan light” were painted so they popped out.

I sell these light fixtures online and inperson. I have successfully sold three of them.

REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

THE REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

TOPOSURFACE

The first project of the term

THE SITE AND TOPOGRAPHY

The Site of this project is the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle. It is on the corner of the street and it has a small grade change that goes up towards the back of the site. The site is 100x200 ft. This aspect of the assignment was relatively simple, since the lines were straight.

IMAGE: TOPOSURFACE

This is a depiction of the toposurface and the building pad, showing where the site is.

THE REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

MASSING

THE GENERAL IDEA OF THE BUILDING

This is the massing of my Studio Project. It has helped inform me of the Plans and Sections.

MASSING DESCRIPTION

My floor-to-floor height is 15 feet. The bottom floor is mostly retail (relating to coffee), the middle floor has a coffee museum and a tea museum, and the top floor (only 12 feet high) is housing.

IMAGE: MASSING OF THE MUSEUM Massing showing the three floors of the Museum: Ground, Main, and Top Floor

THE REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM

IMAGE: PLAN OF THE BUILDING Plan which cuts through the Housing floor of the Espresso Museum.

PLANS, SECTIONS, ELEVATIONS

MAKING DRAWINGS IN REVIT

Showing how to do a Technical Drawing in Revit

PLAN

This plan shows the Top Floor of the Museum Building, with doors and windows added in. Matching up this drawing with my existing drawings of this plan was difficult, as measurements were challenging.

IMAGE: PLAN OF THE BUILDING Plan which cuts through the Museum floor of the Espresso Museum.

IMAGE: SECTION OF COFFEE MUSEUM

Showing a transverse section which cuts through the Espresso Museum

PLANS, SECTIONS, ELEVATIONS

MAKING DRAWINGS IN REVIT

Showing how to do a Technical Drawing in Revit

SECTION

This is a cut through my building, allowing views of the floor to floor height among other things. Due to mezzanines and floors on heigher heights due to topography, I had to add extra levels to make sure they would appear correct in sections.

IMAGE: SECTION OF COFFEE MUSEUM Showing a longitudinal section which cuts through the Espresso Museum

IMAGE: EARLY FACADE WORK

First draft of the Transverse side of the Facade as shown in Revit.

PLANS, SECTIONS, ELEVATIONS

MAKING DRAWINGS IN REVIT

Showing how to do a Technical Drawing in Revit

ELEVATION

This shows how the facade of my building more or less works in order to create a good street frontage. I worked with the Seattle site and took inspiration from historic Italian architecture to create my facades. Creating the ribbon windows proved to be a true challenge thanks to the complicated wall system it made.

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FACADE WORK

Line drawing of the Longitudinal side of the Facade as shown in Revit.

IMAGE: GROUND FACADE SYSTEM

Curtain walls allow people to view into the building, enticing them in.

WALL SYSTEMS

GROUND FLOOR Showing the Various Wall Systems of My Building

GROUND FLOOR CURTAIN WALL

The Ground Floor of my building contains a Curtain Wall. I did this in order to allow for maximum viewing into the various shops and Coffee Tasting and Chemistry labs along the ground floor. It also creates a stronger indoor-outdoor connection along the sidewalk of Ballard Avenue.

IMAGE: GROUND FLOOR CURTAIN WALL DETAIL Elevation of a detail of the Ground Floor

REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

THE REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

WALL SYSTEMS

MUSEUM FLOOR Showing the Various Wall Systems of My Building

MUSEUM FLOOR “CATHEDRAL” WALL

For my museum floor, I wanted to focus on making a wall that allows some sunlight but not much in. As the main focus of the museum is the espresso machine, an Italian invention, I found it appropriate to look towards Italian architecture for my inspiration. Thus, my wall mimics the iconic black and white striping of the Duomo di Siena. This not only helps to connect the espresso machine to its home country, but also suggests that this place is more than just a museum; the building is a cathedral to coffee.

IMAGE: MUSEUM FACADE SYSTEM CMU on steel studs with glass in between gives the building a Duomo-like feeling.

IMAGE: MUSEUM FACADE

My museum facade uses glass instead of black stone to allow light into the museum.

REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

THE REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

IMAGE: HOUSING FACADE SYSTEM

WALL SYSTEMS

HOUSING FLOOR

Showing the Various Wall Systems of My Building

HOUSING FLOOR, FOCUS ON PRIVACY

In my housing floor, I wanted to focus on both privacy but also connection. I left much of the wall system looking similar to the Cathedral floor to let it connect a little bit better, and I put windows in the front to allow for views over Ballard Avenue. However, I also set these spaces back by 10 feet on every side to allow for both privacy of the residents and to allow each apartment to have its own terrace.

Smaller windows and doors help connect people to nature while keeping them private.

IMAGE: HOUSING FLOOR DETAIL Elevation of part of the Housing Floor showing openings and setbacks.

REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

THE REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

IMAGE: MAIN STAIR

VERTICAL CIRCULATION

THE STAIRS AND ELEVATORS OF MY BUILDING

How My Building

people

Ground to the Museum Floor

THE INTERSECTION OF BEAUTY AND ACCESSIBILITY

In my Vertical Circulation, I wanted to focus first on accessibility, which for this project, worked best with an elevator between floors. Three separate staircases exist in the building: the first is the main stair between the first and second floors, the second is a fire stair connected to a separate housing lobby, and the third is a simple fire stair with no designated lobby. The first two of these three staircases also have elevators to allow for accessiblity to every floor.

moves

from the

The Main Stair and Elevator take users from the ground to the Museum.

COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

IMAGE: HOUSING LOBBY STAIR

This image shows the Housing Lobby and the stairs and elevators.

REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

THE REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

IMAGE: EXPLODED AXON (SW)

An exploded axon of my Coffee Museum as seen from the southwest corner.

EXPLODED AXONS

THE LAYOUT OF THE MUSEUM FLOOR

A New View into my Museum

PARTITIONS GUIDING CIRCULATION

My museum floor is a particularly complicated floor due to the fact that it hosts two museums: the main coffee museum and a smaller tea museum. In this exploded axon, I wanted to illustrate how the two museums are separated by the main lobby hall and how the walls illustrate circulation.

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EXPLODED AXON (SE)

The same exploded axon but viewed from the southeast corner of the building.

THE REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM

IMAGE: LOBBY PERSPECTIVE

The main lobby of the building on the second floor as seen in a line perspective.

PERSPECTIVES

LINE DRAWINGS OF INTERIORS

Showcasing Significant Interiors of my Building

TWO IMPORTANT SPACES

For this exercise, I wanted to focus on the two most important parts of the building: the ground floor cafe and the second floor lobby. By showcasing these two parts of the building, understanding how people perceive these spaces becomes more clear. Admittedly, getting the camera angles correct proved difficult.

IMAGE: CAFE PERSPECTIVE

The main cafe on the ground level corner of the building as seen in a line perspective.

IMAGE: INTERIOR RENDERING

ENSCAPE RENDERS

TEXTURES AND LIGHT

A Look into Materiality

RICHER ILLUSTRATIONS

In addition to seeing how people will perceive the building spatially, I found it just as important to understand how people will interact with the building’s materiality. The exposed heavy timber inside helps give the building a feeling of warmth while the coffee machines are on display for all to see.

A room of the Museum in Enscape, showing people, textures, and espresso machines.

COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

IMAGE: EXTERIOR RENDERING

The exterior of my building in Enscape, showing people, textures, and foliage.

THE REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

THE REVIT COFFEE MUSEUM | VICTOR BAHNA

IMAGE: RIBBON WINDOWS

This image shows my Housing Level with Ribbon Windows.

DESIGN OPTIONS

EXPLORING NEW IDEAS

Light or privacy?

RIBBON VS PUNCH-OUT WINDOWS

One part of my design that I found a bit challenging was the decision on whether to use ribbon style or punch-out style windows on the top housing floor. I had good reason for both, the ribbon windows provide more light but punch-out windows can provide more privacy and control over light. These two images show how they would look in my building.

IMAGE: PUNCH-OUT

WINDOWS

This image shows my Housing Level with Punch-Out Windows.

IMAGE: TITLEBLOCK PLANS

Plans of the Coffee Museum at 1/16” scale in a titleblock.

TITLEBLOCKS

GOOD FORMATTING

Easy to Understand Drawings

A PROFESSIONAL LAYOUT

The final thing I focused on was making sure that my layouts looked good and professional as I began to export everything. Each titleblock contains my name, the date, and the assignment. At full size, the plans are 1/16” scale and the sections are 1/8” scale. The pages should be 24”x36”, but they are scaled down in this portfolio.

Victor Bahna

Revit Coffee Museum

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TITLEBLOCK SECTIONS

Sections of the Coffee Museum at 1/8” scale in a titleblock.

IMAGE: TITLEBLOCK ELEVATIONS

Elevations of the Coffee Museum at 1/8” scale in a titleblock.

TITLEBLOCKS

Easy to Understand Drawings

A PROFESSIONAL LAYOUT

The final thing I focused on was making sure that my layouts looked good and professional as I began to export everything. Each titleblock contains my name, the date, and the assignment. At full size, the elevations are 1/8” scale. This page should be 24”x36”, but it is scaled down in this portfolio.

Victor Bahna Revit Coffee Museum 3 Dec. 2022