Welcome Winter 2013!

Hi all and welcome to Winter Quarter 2013, BIM for Interior Design (ELDS 335/740).  This quarter we'll be exploring how we can effectively use the building information modeling tool, Revit, along with other design software to communicate a small, commercial interior design project.  Starting with ACAD as-built drawings, you'll learn about phasing, design options, linking file types, custom family creation, project deliverables, and rendering. 

As you'll see in the syllabus schedule, the pace of the class moves rather quickly, and each phase builds on the previous, so it would be in your best interest to keep up.  Look now for online resources, tutors, and classmates that you can turn to if you find yourself falling behind.  Ideally, prior to each class, you'd arrive familiar with the topics so that we can move beyond the basics and discuss unique strategies for using Revit and other design software as interior designers.  

Look to this blog for resources, project descriptions, demos, and examples.  I will occasionally be posting your work as examples as well.  If you have any information or questions that you'd like to share with the class feel free to post comments on the blog (where they are permitted).  My goal is to keep this site as an ongoing repository not only for the current students, but for future students as well.  To that end, feel free to suggest posts, comment, reference after the class has ended, and link to your own sites. And finally, if you would like to receive updates when new posts are available, I am going to try to provide notification via Google plus.  Look for me at +Cotter D. Christian.   

Here's to a productive quarter!

C. Christian