J. Wickens Revit Portfolio 2022

REVIT OVERVIEW

JESS WILCKENS

My path through higher education has included many obstacles: transfering schools from one coast to the other, the complications of COVID, and a short bout of cancer. However, I’m persistent in my pursuit of an architecture degree and am currently a sophomore in the program at the Univeristy of Oregon’s College of Architecture and Environment.

INTERESTS

Inside the realm of architecture, my interests include experimenting with visual expression, sustainble design, and urban planning.

Outside of architecture, I work as a freelance artist. This includes commission work and the occasional showcase. Examples of my work are shown on the following page. The media I work with varies from project to project but is most often either arcylic paint or an ink sketch with a digital shading overlay.

FALL STUDIO ‘22

Throughout this document the project being referenced is a community center with athletic facilities at Dexter Reservior.

One of this design’s main goals was to integrate the pre-existing site circualtion paths into the new structure’s form and orientation.

The amount of sq. footage was minimized as much as possible to leave the smallest footprint on a site. This decision was made so the site would be centered around a visitors interaction with the natural environmnet, not the built. The building is meant to boolster the pre-existing activities that take place on site and create opportunity for the development of more.

The community center is desgined to have large communal spaces that can be shaped around a variety of uses based on the communties needs over an extended period of time. (1) Longevitiy and (2) integration into the existing site were the main factors of consideration when designing these buidlings.

TOPOGRAPHY

LEARNING OUTCOMES

- Learning the basics of creating sites with extensive topographical features

- Learning the importance of aligning the amount of points placed in each line as to not develop ‘kinks’ due to unregulated placement

- Learning how to integrate multiple split and sub-surfaces into the topography

MASSING STUDY

LEARNING OUTCOMES

IMAGE: MASSING (1) North-West Perspective

IMAGE: MASSING (2) North-East Perspective

IMAGE: MASSING (3) South-West Perspective

IMAGE: MASSING (4) South-East Perspective

VIEWS

LEARNING OUTCOMES

- Creating and navigating section cuts and elevation views

- Learning to adjust cutting planes and manipulating view extents

LEARNING OUTCOMES

- Creating, duplicating, and altering constraints and layers of wall types

RELATION TO DESIGN

One of this design’s main features is the window and door system on the waterfront edge. Both of these systems

Wall Type - 12” Concrete

Waterfront Window System

Wall Type - 8” CMU

Waterfront Garage Door System

Exterior Walls - 8” CMU

Central, Interior Wall - 12” Concrete

STAIRS + RAMPS

LEARNING OUTCOMES

- Designing stairs from standard revit commands OR from annotation lines

- Duplicating stairs based off of set levels with varying height differences

- Editing railings extents and profiles

- Designing ramps from standard revit commands OR from sloped building pads

IMAGERY

LEARNING OUTCOMES

- Using the REVIT navigation cube to define new 3D views

- Creating specialised design views using color, lighting, and line weight

- Utilizing the displacement tool to create exploded axon. imagery without altering the positions of elements in other views

PERSPECTIVES

LEARNING OUTCOMES

- creating interior and exterior perspective views with camera views

- unhiding camera views to adjust

- apply graphic skills referenced in above spread: line weight, lighting/shading, etc.

perspective 04 - interior 01

perspective 05 - interior 02

ENSCAPE EXPLORATION

LEARNING OUTCOMES

- Syncronizing views within REVIT and Enscape

- Exploring background display options: ligthing and sky, generalised locations, and orthographic/perspective/two-point perspective views

- Placing elements such as figures, furniture, and vegetation in the rendering

*NOTE -- this submission only contains REVIT’s realistic view perspective due to laptop processing/overheating problems while running Enscape.

DESIGN OPTIONS

LEARNING OUTCOMES

- how to create design options (specifically walls and window profiles)

- how to add elements to design sets

- displaying mutliple design option views with tiled layout

- how to set the default/primary design option after seeing all options

curved wall design option

angular wall design option

TITLE BLOCKS

LEARNING OUTCOMES

- importing plans, sections, views into title blocks

- adjusting scale - editing and creating personalised title blocks