Archicad Sample Projects - Designed by Students
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2022-07-05
10:10 AM
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2023-05-12
09:39 AM
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Emoke Csikos
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We are ecstatic and proud of the quality of students work. Happily, we have decided to publish a new collection of sample projects in addition to the Archicad Sample Projects - Graphisoft Community. As students have designed these, it is an astonishing and motivating level of details in Archicad that other students can relate to and will be able to achieve. We Chose the most intriguing and diverse projects in type and location are available for free for everyone to download.
Vacation Home⎮Residential Building
Check out this small and captivating residential building for the details and interior design solutions. It is completely free to download.
To explore the virtual building without downloading, try the BIMx Web Viewer by clicking on the play button below!
- Architect: Donna Ferreira
- Category: small-scale residential
- Location: USA
- Floor area: 1340 m2
- Phase: Student Project
- Version: Archicad 25
Scroll down to the end of the article to learn how to explore the project and what's in the project file.
Please also read the legal notice.
Grow⎮Residential, Large-Scale
Check out the creative fusion of architecture and nature in this large-scale residential building. It is completely free to download.
To explore the virtual building without downloading, try the BIMx Web Viewer by clicking on the play button below!
- Architect: Francine Cavalheiro
- Category: high-rise residential
- Location: Brazil
- Floor area: 1312.6 m2
- Phase: Student Project
- Version: Archicad 25
Scroll down to the end of the article to learn how to explore the project and what's in the project file.
Please also read the legal notice.
Jooste House⎮Residential, Large-Scale
Check out this large-scale residential building, featuring its interior design solutions. It is completely free to download.
To explore the virtual building without downloading, try the BIMx Web Viewer by clicking on the play button below!
- Architect: Christian Greyling
- Category: large-scale residential building
- Location: Boston, USA
- Floor area: 680 m2
- Phase: Student Project
- Version: Archicad 25
Scroll down to the end of the article to learn how to explore the project and what's in the project file.
Please also read the legal notice.
Recreational Center⎮Commercial, Interior design
Check out the abilities of Archicad in floating structures, curves and details in this commercial building. The visualization is enticing as it is done in a creative way on Archicad. It is completely free to download.
To explore the virtual building without downloading, try the BIMx Web Viewer by clicking on the play button below!
- Architect: Thiffani Siani
- Category: commercial building
- Location: Brazil
- Floor area: 143.39 m2
- Phase: Student Project
- Version: Archicad 25
Scroll down to the end of the article to learn how to explore the project and what's in the project file.
Please also read the legal notice.
Water Educational Center⎮Commercial, Interior design
This project is a commercial building, featuring its interior design solutions. It is completely free to download.
To explore the virtual building without downloading, try the BIMx Web Viewer by clicking on the play button below!
- Architect: Tomasz Węgrzyn
- Category: commercial building
- Location: Poland
- Floor area: 3284 m2
- Phase: Student Project
- Version: Archicad 25
Please also read the legal notice.
How to start exploring the Sample Projects?
These sample project files are completely free to download and represent the modeling and documentation capabilities of Archicad.
You can download an Archicad .pla (Archived file) file created in the International version (INT) of Archicad and a BIMx file.
How to open the Archicad project file?
- Download the latest Archicad version
- Download the sample project file
- Open the Archived project file (.pla) in Archicad
- Select the ‘ Read elements directly from archive’ option during the opening process
- Start exploring the project by using the pre-saved views on ‘ View Map’ in the Navigator
How to open the BIMx file?
- Download the latest BIMx version from the AppStore or GooglePlay to your mobile device (iOS or Android)
- Download the BIMx hyper-model of the sample project
- Synchronize or copy the BIMx hyper-model to your device
- Open BIMx mobile app
- Click on the sample project hyper-model file to be loaded
- Start exploring the model and the documentation within the same BIMx file
What's Inside the Sample Projects?
- 3D Models
- Site Plan
- Floor Plans
- Sections and Elevations
- Interior Elevations
- Schedules
- Details
- 3D Documents
Legal Notice
The contents are copyright protected. All rights reserved.
By downloading any of the files linked above you accept the terms and conditions of the End User License Agreement.
Click to Read the End User License Agreement
By opening this Sample Project File (“SPF”) You accept the terms of this Agreement between Graphisoft SE and You or the entity, on behalf of which You obtained the sub-license right to the SPF. The SPF is an Archicad individual project file from which any other file format can be generated (included but not limited to pdf, xls, ifc, dwg). The SPF is sublicensed to You by Graphisoft SE. You are entitled to use the SPF solely for your own use and not for any further distribution or resale. The SPF is licensed, not sold, to You and You are forbidden to sub-license, distribute, provide access to or commercialize the SPF or its any component either alone or as part of another product or service. You may NOT sell, loan, distribute, cede, rent or lease or otherwise transfer or assign the right to use the SPF, to transfer or provide access to it by network for commercial use, either in whole or in part. You are expressly forbidden to decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, translate or reduce the SPF for any purposes whatsoever. No part of contents contained in the SPF may be reproduced, used, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. These restrictions include in particular the prohibition to use of any part of the contents to the design and construct of other buildings. You are fully liable and shall compensate all damages to Graphisoft and to the copyright owner in case of and related to the infringements of copyright restrictions set forth herein. If you don’t agree with the terms above, please close and remove the SPF from your computer or device.
These projects have been submitted to BIM Project 2020 Winner Announcement – Graphisoft. In addition this article is a new collection of sample projects from Archicad Sample Projects - Graphisoft Community
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I have eagerly reviewed the student projects and I have a very important recommendation: they should audit the published BIMx files because they have publication or layout errors.
thank you

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In the large scale residential model I can only see a part of the building. See the snapshot (with all layers activated). I wonder if this is intentional or maybe an error?
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Hi @IMBC-1974,
Thanks for pointing out the issue. We have now updated the "Grow" Project, the starting 3D is now the whole building in site context and Layouts are linked.
Let us know what you think and if you have any other suggestions.
Kind regards,
Szabolcs
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Thank you very much for paying attention to my suggestion, I have an additional query. What is the procedure for you to publish a student project?
Thank you.
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@IMBC-1974 These projects published above were created and submitted for an international competition organised by Graphisoft. Here the task was to concentrate on the Information and Modelling Quality just as much as on the architectural quality. We shortlisted the best 5 based on design, documentation, visualisation, BIM and diversity.
In the future we would like to release more, where we would use the same framework to choose the qualified Archicad projects, but they could come from any student at any university around the globe.