University of Sharjah/ College of Engineering

Department of Architectural Engineering

Computer Aided Architecture Design: 0404301 – Summer 2022/2023
Design Project

Grading based on the following:

• 50 % on technical requirements
• 50 % on design, creativity, and presentation.

Objective:
This Project exercise requires students to design their own project using (Revit 2023) without the
need for manual media/intervention. Thus, creativity is highly sought; the final product should be
highly creative and innovative in terms of form, space.

The aim is to motivate students to start utilizing digital tools early in the design process and not
for design production purposes only; hints; the tools should drive the design idea to be realized in
a highly creative manner.

It is expected that digital tools will enhance students’ creativity and will have a positive impact on
the final product in comparison to the traditional analog method.

Design brief
Using Revit® 2023, your task is to model a villa (2 or 3 storeys) based on the below criteria
and utilizing the below sites:
 Pinterest:
https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?rs=ac&len=2&q=village%20house%20design
&eq=Villa&etslf=7480
 Archdaily: https://www.archdaily.com/?ad_name=small-logo

Minimum Requirement’s detail (spaces):

o Guest/Visitor Area (Majlis) with dining space + Guest toilet

o Family Living room, Family Dining space.
o Kitchen + Storage room
o Maid room with separate bathroom.
o Gym and workout Area
o 2x in-suite bedroom with a WC. and balcony/Terrace
o 3x bedrooms each with WC.
o Shaded parking area, swimming pool and backyard garden.
o Entertainment spaces/ or similar.
o Any other spaces you want to add.
o Open seating area with shading devices (terrace)

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Technical requirements (minimum):
• Include “Curtain wall – Storefront” that has a door in your design.
• Produce schedules: Doors, windows, furniture, and rooms (all sorted with grand total).
• Duplicate all technical floors and produce presentation sheets.
• Produce sheets to submit the work.
• Produce rendering shots interior and exterior of your design (you can use Enscape or Lumion)
• Produce a walkthrough short film (start from outside and walk inside the building GF only
then go outside to show the swimming pool and backyard). (Enscape or Lumion)

Sustainability consideration:
Though it is preferable to have natural light throughout the unit, in some cases, it may not be
possible to provide all functions with adequate natural light; thus, artificial lights will be the
solution with false ceiling. You need to add false ceiling and lights in the areas that will have the
interior renders (ex. family living room or a bedroom)

Circulation & Handrails:

• Ramp: Create a ramp for circulation, preferably to be placed next to the main entrance staircase
• Staircase: Make sure that you have interior staircase for vertical circulation and do not forget to
create a shaft. The stairs should go all the way to the roof level.
• Handrails: Handrails should be used wherever is required for safety (Balcony, staircase,
ramp…etc.)

Room Tags & Presentation Plans:

• Room Tags: Tag all the rooms on all floors (Show name + Area only)
• Presentation Plans: Duplicate the Ground and First Floor Plans and use the duplicate plans for
the color scheme with legend.
• Color Scheme: Apply color scheme on the Presentation Plans
• Color Fill Legend: Add Legend to the Presentation Plans

Note: Only the color scheme, room name & area and the legend should be shown on the
presentation plans, other requirements should be done on the original plans (technical)

Furniture:
• Components: From components, furnish all the plans according to space requirements
You can download new furniture from Bimobject.com

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Windows and Doors Tags:
• Tag all the Windows, Doors, Curtain Walls, and Curtain Wall Doors (on the original plans -
technical)

Annotation & Schedules:

• Dimensions: Apply Detailed and overall dimensions to all the exterior walls of the Ground Floor
and the First Floor and Roof Technical plans
• Schedules: Produce schedules for Windows, Doors, Rooms, and Furniture that have the
following:
o Windows & Doors: Count | Mark | Type | Width | Height | Level
o Rooms: Name | Area | Level
o Furniture: Family | Family and Type | Level

Topography:
• Create a Toposurface around your site adding any extra feature required (i.e. trees, site equipment,
seating, swimming pool, etc.)
• Use subregion to create different regions for walkways, parking… etc.

Sections:
• Produce 2 Sections: Longitudinal Section and Cross Section (At least one shows the vertical
circulation) edit the visibility and graphics to show the cut walls with appropriate materials
hatching. (Concrete for floors and concrete CMU for walls)
• Produce 3D section showing the vertical circulation (color consistent style)

Rendering & Walkthrough: Save all rendered shots to the project only.
• Exterior Shots: Set 2 Cameras for exterior shots and render these shots to high quality.
• Interior Shots: Furnish the family living room, add ceiling and lights, and produce 2 renderings:
o Daylight Rendering
o Night Rendering (The lights should be on)
• Walkthrough: Create a walkthrough starting outside the project showing the exterior of the
project and going inside to show different spaces of GF floor then walking out to the swimming
pool and backyard garden.

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Sheets & Plotting:
Prepare the Sheets to have your name, ID, Project Name and section number. Do not forget to include
Sheets number (A01, A02, A03, …etc.) (Sheet size A0)
• A0 Sheet: Site Plan scale 1:100 + general 3D View
• A0 Sheet: Ground Floor and First Floor technical plans (1:100) + Presentation Plans (1:200)
• A0 Sheet: All 4 Elevations 1:100
• A0 Sheet: Longitudinal Section and Cross Section scale 1:50
• A0 Sheet: 4 rendered Exterior Shots, 2 rendered Interior Shots.
• A0 Sheet: 3D section and Schedules.

You can adjust some of the scales above for better fitting according to your design.
And add more sheets if needed.

All requirements in this document are MINIMUM, feel free to add more spaces or components if
applicable or necessary and to increase creativity. Any instructions that are not mentioned above
mean you can do your own if it’s logically correct. (ex. Level heights, Wall thickness etc.)

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