Is BIM an innovation?

Daniel HurtubiseRenzo Piano Building Workshop

Data-Shapes

Daniel Hurtubise

• VDC/BIM Manager @ RPBW

• Founder of Data-Shapes

• Dad, Engineer, Architect, MCSE, and a lot of other more or less useful things…

• @DanielHurtubise

International Experience

Wikipedia

• Innovation can be defined simply as a "new idea, device or method".

• However, innovation is often also viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, or existing market needs.

The other dimensions(4D, 5D, 6D)

• 4D (Time Management)

• Synchro

• 5D (Cost Management)

• CostX

• 6D (Facilities Management)

• Archibus

Does it change the way architects work?

• Well…. not really• but…

• We drastically change the way we do things

• We change our tools• So then can we

change our tasks?• Coordination

Comparing Old vs New

Amiens

• University( AutoCAD)

• Net Area: 38 000m2

• Number of Sheet (PRO): 152

ENS

• University( Revit)

• Net Area: 64 000m2

• Number of Sheet (PRO): 500

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Comparing Old vs New

Amiens

• University( AutoCAD)

• Number of files: 1 549 (dwg)

• File Size: 2.96 GB

ENS

• University( Revit)

• Number of files: 39 (rvt)

• File Size: 3.89 GB

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Amiens - AutoCAD

Amiens - AutoCAD

Amiens - AutoCAD

ENS - Revit

Innovative technologies

• How do we innovate within that process?• Considering the legal system hasn’t

changed… yet

• Real-Time Rendering

• Computational Design

• Virtual Reality

• Augmented Reality

• Data Analysis

• Data Exchange

• Generative Design

• Artificial Intelligence

Real Time Rendering

• Easy

• Fast

• Affordable

• Crazy cool

Real-Time - Enscape

In Revit In Enscape

Clear Concrete Dark Concrete

Real-Time - Enscape

Real-Time - Enscape

Computational Design

• The application of computational strategies to the design

Grasshopper

Rhino

Computational Design

Dynamo Studio

Revit

Computational Design

DynamoRevit

Computational Design

Computational Design -Examples

• Concatenating parameters

• Automating tasks

• File maintenance

• Standards checking

Virtual Reality

• The computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors.

Virtual Reality

Enscape + Rhino

Enscape + Revit

Virtual Reality

Prospect

Scaled Model

Guest

Augmented Reality• A technology that

superimposes a computer-generated image on a user's view of the real world, thus providing a composite view.

Augmented Reality

BIM Holoview

Augmented Reality

Data Analysis

A process of inspecting, cleansing, transforming, and modeling data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions, and supporting decision-making

Data Analysis

View Type per Phase

Data Analysis

Wall Types

Data Analysis

Element Types

Data Exchange

• Is the process of taking data structured under a source schema and transforming it into data structured under a target schema, so that the target data is an accurate representation of the source data

Local architect

RevitServer

Model Exchange

Dynamic Static

Accoustic

Structure

Mechanical

Kitchen

Environment

Data Exchange

Data Exchange

Speckle

• A building is a series of connected elements that creates a complex assembly

Data Exchange

Autodesk Quantum

• Building is:• A series of

principles or procedured to define how thingsare assembled

Data Exchange

Autodesk Quantum

Generative Design

• Anthony Hauck (Black Arts Consulting)

• Generative design is the automated algorithmic combination of goals and constraints to reveal solution

Generative Design

Project Fractal

Final Quote

• Architects don’t produce buildings, they produce a set of instructions for the making of buildings

Randy Deutsch