Course detail
Building design in BIM I.
FAST-NUA015Acad. year: 2025/2026
Designing in a BIM application.
Creating a 3D model of a building.
Drawing documentation generated from the model.
Visualization of the building.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Credit for active work in lectures.
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Aims
Getting acquainted with BIM technology and basic principles for creating spatial (3D) modeling.
Introduction to computer designing in architecture and construction using a BIM application (Revit Architecture, Archicad). Getting acquainted with BIM technology and basic principles for creating spatial (3D) modeling, architectural and structural elements. Description of the method of obtaining information (data) from the information model of the building, its reporting and use in the implemented project. Viewing, rendering scenes.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
ERHART, Daniel, Stavařův průvodce Revitem, Arkance systems 2022, ISBN: 978-80-907-7408-7 (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme NPC-MI Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to the program, basics of control and simple model.
- 2. Split the model, build the first wall.
- 3. Second wall – composition, continuity, modifications.
- 4. Atypical wall shapes, wall openings, hardening ...
- 5. Door and window insertion and description.
- 6. Doors and windows - families and their modifications.
- 7. Roofs.
- 8. Perimeter covers - suspended facades, broken windows.
- 9. Terrain and hedge, visualization.
- 10.-11. Drawing documentation.
- 12. Reports - tables of rooms, windows and doors, materials ...
- 13. Independent work on own model.