Best practice of complex curved facade of different systems

[GiedreSkucaite]

Hi, we are moving to the detailed design of one project with reletevely complex facade system. We have to model the facade into 3 walls/parts - interior finishes, wooden panel elements inside and facade cladding. Besides that it is curved on some sides and has windows + curved clazing which has to be embed into curved walls. Also facade has minimum 6 different type of cladings and curtain walls top/bottom is in irregural shapes (on curved wall it is not possible to edit profile of the walls). We want to be flexible and easy to work with in detail design phase, but Revit has quite some limitations with curved walls..

We tried the different ways of working with it, but all seems to manual and difficult to work with - one way is building it as curtain wall in modules and adding customized panels with windows etc. but there are many problems with curved facade panels, also adding facade finish/cladding and cutting it. Another way of building it is with regural joined walls (but again curved wall makes problems to get curtain walls in, especialy with irregular bottom, top "profiles").

Any good ideas and best practices for such a facade? Note it needs to be for detailed for detail design phase.

[ToanDN]

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@GiedreSkucaite wrote:

Hi, we are moving to the detailed design of one project with reletevely complex facade system. We have to model the facade into 3 walls/parts - interior finishes, wooden panel elements inside and facade cladding. Besides that it is curved on some sides and has windows + curved clazing which has to be embed into curved walls. Also facade has minimum 6 different type of cladings and curtain walls top/bottom is in irregural shapes (on curved wall it is not possible to edit profile of the walls). We want to be flexible and easy to work with in detail design phase, but Revit has quite some limitations with curved walls..

Instead of Editing profile of a curved wall, create a mass of irregular shape, create roofs by faces, and attach the top and base of the curved wall to the roofs.  Alternately, you can create a curved wall by face from a mass with irregular top and base.

We tried the different ways of working with it, but all seems to manual and difficult to work with - one way is building it as curtain wall in modules and adding customized panels with windows etc. but there are many problems with curved facade panels, also adding facade finish/cladding and cutting it. Another way of building it is with regural joined walls (but again curved wall makes problems to get curtain walls in, especialy with irregular bottom, top "profiles").

Should you choose to use curtain walls, there is also no issue with curved panels (use basic wall types for panels, not loadable curtain panel families), and irregular profile (same approach as above).  

Any good ideas and best practices for such a facade? Note it needs to be for detailed for detail design phase.

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