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Before the 1st class, go to the ArchiCAD website,

download and install ArchiCAD 14 onto your laptop

https://www.myarchicad.com/

Instructor: Ted Montgomery, licensed architect &

principal of GroundSwell Architects, Charlotte, VT

425-7717 www.groundswellarchitects.co

Assignments 1 & 2, and the Final Skill Reviewbe emailed to: [email protected]

Sept 1, 2011

Overview of ArchiCAD & BIM

The ArchiCAD Workplace

Using: Navigator, Floor Plan, 3D windows

Toolbars, Palettes, Coordinate box

Using the tools: Walls, Pet Palette

Reading > REFERENCE GUIDE: Conguration, Navigation

Featured project: Student project 2010

Assignment 1: Write your NAME using the wall

Sept 8, 2011

SHOW & TELL us about your NAME

Using the tools: Slab tool, Magic wand, Proler

Using the line, polyline and spline tools

Creating a slab from a line drawing

Zooming IN and OUT, t in window

Reading > REFERENCE GUIDE: Construction Elements

Course reference project - the Bird House

Assignment 2: Design a PIZZA using the slab tool
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Featured project: Bird House

Student project - Creating A Not So Big Shelter for Two

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Featured project: San Remo Drive

Student project - project setup, floor plans, doors & wind

Sept 29, 2011

SHOW & TELL about your work to date

Bird House Layer: Lessons 4 & 5

Materials: Creating custom colors, materials & textures

Atribute Manager

Using the tools: Section & elevation

Reading > REFERENCE GUIDE: Attribute Manager, Materials

Featured project: Montgomery Residence

Student project - elevations & sections

Oct 6, 2011

Bird House Layer: Lesson 6

Using the tools: Mesh w/Gravity

Creating contours from existing topographical informatio

Placing your project into a site.

Solid Element Operations: Adding ponds & roads

Reading > REFERENCE GUIDE: Mesh

Featured project: Mucklow Residence

Student project - stairs & roofs, site mesh layout


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Featured project: Green Ribbon Living

Student project - objects, furnishings

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Featured project: Stern Residence

Student project - set up cameras & lighting

Oct 27, 2011

SHOW & TELL us about your work to date

Bird House Layer: Lessons 8, 9 & 10

Working with photo renderings, cut aways

Real time tours: y thrus

Reading REFERENCE GUIDE: Fly-through

Featured project: Green Mountain Club center

Student project - lamps & sun

Nov 3, 2011

Bird House Layer: Lessons 8, 9 & 10

Setting up animations and sun studies

Producing QuickTime movies

Reading REFERENCE GUIDE: Sun Study

Featured project: Copper Leaf Studio

Student project - walk thru


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Featured project: Ten Stones Community Building

Student project - room areas, names

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Featured project: Phototropic House

Student project - Project presentation set ofoor plans,

sections, elevations, and perspectives

Dec 1, 2011

his will be a nal, real time exercise using the skills you have

earned.

ach student will be provided with the same partially

ompleted small home design. Your job will be to enhance

nd complete the job as best you can, drawing from your skills

n ArchiCAD.

his is not a race to the nish in three hours but rather a

hance to examine your talents by using the right tools for the

ob. You will be judged by how effectively you use your skills.

Dec 8, 2011

Starting at 4 PM, this nal event will be at my home in the Te

Stones Community in Charlotte. If you come on time, I will

give you a tour of our home and home offices. See map on t

last page of this PDF le.

At 4:30 PM, we will settle in to our home theater for your

individual presentations using animations, walk thrus, plans

and renderings. Each student will have an allotted time to

present their project to the class on a MacBook Pro and LCD

projector. Email or bring your projects on CD or memory

sticks. See the Requirements page for details.

Pretend that the audience are just plain folks - you need to

educate us about your design. Use your ArchiCAD palette of

skills to sell us and blow our collective minds!

At the end of class, I will serving freshly cooked, home crafte

pizza and will have beverages available. There may also be

brief presentations by any of the invited reviewers.

Grading: as per Student Project Requirements & Grading

T h a n k s g i v i n g R e c e s s


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You have been asked by a dream client to design an ecological home for two on a site of your

choosing. You may use any real location, or one that is conjured up from your imagination.

This exercise will draw on your creative juices and use the skills that you are learning in our

class. I will be dispensing encouragement, design comments and guiding your efforts for the

next several months.

While money is no object in this exercise, respect for our resources and

environment surely can be. I will be looking for your command of

the tools and techniques found in Assignments 1 thru 12. If you

should have a site for this somewhere, bring in any information on

the contours (topography) and we will convert it to a 3D object.

Expect to spend plenty of time rening your design, creating custom

objects and textures, perspectives, animations and presentation

plans. You are encouraged to go beyond the basics. ArchiCAD has

many nifty features that are not covered in our assignments, but

which might be useful for special features in your project.

Please review the Student Project Requirements on the following page.

You will have an allotted amount of time to present your idea via my

laptop and our home theater screen during the nal class for student

projects at my home.

Let imagination rule!


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So you know quite a bit about this software

by now, right? Here are the minimum

elements that should appear in your student project:

1. Construction elements - at least one of each: walls,

windows, doors, roofs (trimmed to t), slabs or oors,

stairs, columns, beams, and meshes (probably your site -

ponds and roads count extra).2. Objects - use 10 or more objects from the supplied

library. At least one must be your own, beautiful

creation.

3. Original material - this can be a color and texture of

your creation.

4. Organization - create at least three Layers, one

unique Layer Combinations and original Stories.

5. Dimensions - on one story, show locations of

windows in three walls, and distances between walls.

6. Zones - at least one zone in one or more rooms to

show area size.7. Animations - at least one Fly-thru, Virtual Object or

Sun Study, saved in the MOV format.

8. Presentation - At least three views from the Photo

Rendering Window at best quality (interior and/or

exterior), showing sun shadows, textures, and

reections, saved in the JPG format.

NOTE: Views from the 3D window are NOT ACCEPTABLE!

9. Drawings - at least one elevation, section, oor plan

and perspective drawing put onto at least one sheet and

published as a PDF le.

Final Submission:

Your nal project les should be saved

into a folder with your name on it.

Inside should be:

an archive le of your project in the .pla format (sav

project w/library parts) any textures or pictures unique to your project Quicktime Movies in the .mov format Photo renderings in the .jpg format published drawings in the .pdfformat. copy all les onto a DVD/CD or a USB storage chip

Bring your project to the nal class at my home, makinsure that you have all libraries, materials, objects andother les ready to go. Copy your folder to my hard drivbefore you begin your presentation.

Do a dress rehearsal before coming to make sure thyou are condent about what you are presenting.

You will have up to 10 minutes to educate us plain folkthe audience. Your presentation skills and showmanshare encouraged!

Grading ...........................: Show & Tell your NAME 5%...........................Show & Tell your PIZZA 5%

..........................Show & Tell your work 20%.......................................Student project 50%.....................................Final Skill review 20%


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Follow Route 7 south thru Shelburne Village to the

rst light just past the Shelburne Museum... this is

Bostwick Road where you make a right turn and take

the road west ... it will become Greenbush Road asyou cross the Charlotte Town Line (Orchard Road

intersects on the right at this point) ... stay on

Greenbush for another quarter mile and look for Ten

Stones Circle also on the right...You will have driven

about 2 miles since turning at the light on Route 7...

turn in, drive 300 past the mailboxes and take the

left fork ... look for the sixth house on the right, with

a 477 marker next to the driveway.

Or, heading north on Route 7, take a left turn on F5

into Charlotte village... turn right onto Greenbush,drive 2.5 miles to the sign Ten Stones Circle and

repeat the above..

Parking: Use the spaces next to the Common House (on the left just

past the mailboxes) or park in our drive if you are rst to arrive.

Phone: 802-425-7717

Montgomerys at 477 Ten Stones Circle, Charlotte, Vermont

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