PROCESS DOCUMENT OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S FALLING WATER HOUSE RECREATION

By Dané du Toit

 

 

Firstly, I have to import the pdf into AutoCAD so that I can trace it. 
 

Next, draw a line in the width of the door of 900mm.

Now scale the drawing so that that line fits in the door.

The drawing is now to scale.

The plan has to be traced now, by going over it with lines.

 

 

Next, the AutoCAD drawing was imported into Revit.

 

 

 

 

I then started to draw the building, but had to start over, as nothing lined up.

Lastly I made a site and placed the building on the site.

 

 

 

 

 

The problems I came across were as follow:

I couldn’t find an easy way to line up the different curtain walls, I had to go to the elevations and    drag them by hand.

The stairs didn’t connect to the next level at first, but then I edited it so that it did.

Sometimes if I selected one wall and edited it, it would edit a few others as well.  I think this is

because I drew all the walls with one command and then ticked the tick.

I don’t know what this message means:  Doesn’t satisfy constraints.

I don’t know how to make a wall show that it cuts through another one, like at the bridge.

I also couldn’t manage to split the site so that I can add water or grass.  It kept saying that it needs

to be split into exactly two parts.

Lastly, it was rather difficult to create the site so that it had the correct fall and also to connect the
building to the site.