A project done with AC19

[Mats_Knutsson]

Very rare that we get attention on Archdaily but here is a pretty nice and complex AC19 project that had it's inauguration a few weeks ago. https://www.archdaily.com/951719/house-of-knowledge-education-center-liljewall
Don't know where to post actual projects on the forum so admin please delete if inappropriate.

[Bricklyne Clarence]

That's an amazing project.
Really well done.

In another universe it could easily be an ArchiCAD box signature building and showcase project.

It makes you wonder how many great projects are being done in ArchiCAD, which fly under the radar and no one ever gets to know about unless the firm that did it publicizes it.

Congratulations to you and your firm for executing and realizing it, and bravo for such great work done at such a high skill level.

[Mats_Knutsson]

Thanks . It wasn't the easiest project but it came out well in the end. The project team relied on one very skilled Archicadder to make sure it would work out modeling wise.

This forum should have a project gallery section just for inspiration.

/Mats

[Rafal SLEK]

Thank you Mats for this link! Nice to see such interesting and great architecture made in favourite software 🙂
best
Rafal

[furtonb]

That looks awesome, Mats!
I would love to know more about the project.

It wasn't the easiest project but it came out well in the end.

What do you think, would that be possible to organize an online discussion where architects/structural engineers/MEP engineers/other involved parties discuss how the emerged problems were solved and possibly showing around the model and workflows?

[Kristian Bursell]

Very nice work Mats.
It would have been quite and interesting project to build in Archicad.

[Mats_Knutsson]

Kristian wrote:
Very nice work Mats.
It would have been quite and interesting project to build in Archicad.

Let's say challenging.

[jl_lt]

Absolutely great Project Mr. Knutsson, congratulations to you and your team. Complex yet grounded architecture.

would it be asking too much if youd discuss the complications, limitations and/or advantages you found out modelling a project like this in Archicad?

[Mats_Knutsson]

jl_lt wrote:
Absolutely great Project Mr. Knutsson, congratulations to you and your team. Complex yet grounded architecture.

would it be asking too much if youd discuss the complications, limitations and/or advantages you found out modelling a project like this in Archicad?

Thank you

Well basically many chefs in the soup...ranging from left brainers to right brainers however for which Archicad is the best tool. Of course we had challenges between visual 3D and 2D documentation. 3D is always more or less easy regarding how much BIM we put into the model. This is not so much a BIM-project other than regular quantities of interior stuff and some more. It's a large project and quite often slow to work with which is why the team would't like to present it live.

No fancy stuff, just straight Archicad. I could have modeled this with Archicad when I first learned it 20 years ago. It's easier today though, especially with the morph tool. This building doesn't have any double curvatures, loft surfaces or such so the only thing custom is a gdl-object for the exterior red flanges (a penta prism with editable hotspots. Flanges could easily be done with Grasshopper but the architect is not a Rhino/GH user so the flowing "elbow" on the flanges was done manually by adjusting each flange hotspot after splines or polyline curves. It's pretty quick and the architect can do the job without having call a software expert (which is kind of the beacon for our way of working with Archicad...).

[jl_lt]

Thank you Mr Knutsson! As algortihmic design gets more publicity each day, its reassuring to hear that a project like this can, and is, modeled with just native geometry. Not to say we shouldnt be studying algorithmic design, but thats another topic.