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The best way to define levels in a building with difficult changes in elevation

scervera33
Contributor
 

I have found in this project that the structural engineer has provided 10 different levels to organize the different floor slabs of the project. It is a complex project due to the terrain. The thing is, from an architectural perspective, I would only handle 3 levels: the ground floor, the upper floor, and the roof. However, I am unsure of the best way to define them, as for the ground floor, as seen in the section, there is no line that captures all the spaces properly. How would you resolve this?


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i dont know about others, but ive always found it great that this kind of situations actually have many possible solutions

Botonis
Advisor

Creating so many stories leads to a complicated project map.

You are obviously doing this because you want to show the corresponding levels in sections and elevations.

The red levels that you you have defined looks like a logical approach.

But if you want to define more detailed stories levels in sections and elevations you only have one proper option:

 

https://www.indigofigs.com/story-marker/

 

You can create "virtual stories" and define levels based on the floor level of each building part.

Not free but once you start using it you will not be able to use the Archicad's default story level object.

It has far more settings and options.

Botonis Botonakis
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