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7/8/2013

The 4 Revit content pieces that can make a room.

When you are designing a living room, what do you think off, and how do you design? I often find myself asking these questions: 

  • How would the owner like to live in this living room?
  • Where would they like to sit, what would they want to view?
  • Where is the TV, where is the fireplace? 
  • How can I have a great view of the TV but not neglect the social atmosphere when there is company?

The answer to these questions may come in many forms. Should there be: a loveseat, a sectional, a sofa? How many individual seats are needed? How should they be orientated? How long should the sectional be? With almost limitless possibilities going back and forth between the content browser to find the right pieces can be a drag. Especially if you are experimenting with many different arrangements.

Introducing the 3 Revit Furniture pieces that will SAVE YOUR LIFE! (The fourth piece is further down!)
While these piece may not save your life, I would not recommend throwing your computer after you if you were drowning in water. They will save you time, thus helping you live more of your life! These pieces can be arranged in many different patterns to help you create the living room that your client needs.  Below are just a few of the possibilities you can make with these three furniture pieces.

By adding the fourth piece, the Albert Sierra Chair, you can create a complete living room with multiple arrangements that fill the space. 
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Revit Lounge Seat

4 Strategies for designing living rooms.

1) Mix sofas, sectionals with individual pieces.  
A great counter-piece to a large sectional is individual smaller sized armchairs.
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Revit Furniture Room Layout
2) Form a balanced relationship.
Don't forget about conversation, if a room will be heavily used to converse with company make sure that the furniture is appropriate for that use.

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Revit Furniture Livingroom Layout
3) Don't be afraid to stand alone.
Fit the furniture to your clients use, sometimes only one stand alone piece is needed or wanted.
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Revit Great room Layout
4) Face away from the TV/Fireplace
By placing ones back to the TV/Fireplace or wall you allow the user to have private space for reading, relaxing or enjoying conversation without the distraction of the TV.
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Revit TV room Layout
Don't forget to experiment or play. Sometimes solutions present themselves though your subconscious. A room might "click" by accident. 

If you would like to download these Revit furniture pieces, visit the Revit Families page to get our pro package.

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6 Comments
Zeny link
7/8/2013 05:57:21 pm

My first time visiting this blog, and your content here is very useful for me! thanks

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Alex Gore link
7/9/2013 02:34:08 am

Thanks Zeny! We try to be as helpful as we can!

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Seth
7/10/2013 06:03:12 am

Just fabulous ideas! Alex, you suprise me every day!!

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Ron
7/15/2013 04:31:40 am

What are the sizes of the furniture models? Do large BIM projects typically use full furniture models?

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Alex Gore link
7/15/2013 05:11:47 am

Hi Ron, the sizes of the models range from around 200 KB to over 2 MB. The average size ranges more towards the 200 KB. The larger files are the bigger furniture pieces made up of smaller sections.

As for your second question, that is an excellent questions. The answer depends on the firm and the BIM manager answering the question. If you asked around you would receive answers from "Hell NO!" to what I am going to explain next.

Other firms do put full models into large BIM projects, but they do it in such a way that minimizes the the amount of pieces in their model. What they do is that they will only put full furniture pieces into typical units (i.e. unit A,B,C, ect...) The rest of the units are left blank and just identified as unit A, B, or C, ect.

I hope that helped.

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William link
5/30/2016 11:30:04 pm

A nice post and so good Revit family content. Just in case, if the families need to be organized somehow, e.g. checking versions, sizes, time and images if many files at the same time, inspecting all parameters of a family in a single nice window, copying/moving/deleting in batch, opening families into Revit or loading them into Revit projects in batch, etc. the Revit Family Organizer can help.

http://netspiderstudio.com/help/RFO/index.html




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