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TOOL> TRELLIGENCE AFFINITY: EXTENDING BIM TO SPACE PROGRAMMING AND PLANNING

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Trelligence is a Houston-based software company founded in early 2002 that is focused on enhancing the design process through tools for architectural programming, space planning and early conceptual and schematic design. Affinity is available as a stand-alone application or with plug-ins to the latest versions of Revit Architecture, ArchiCAD, and SketchUp.

TUTORIAL> SPACE PLANNING 

Frank Brault

A video part series covering the basic features of the Space Planning suite in Vectorworks 2013.

Part 1 demonstrated creating Spaces with the Space tool, and creating Spaces from polygon objects using the Create Objects from Shapes menu command.

Part 2 demonstrates creating Spaces with Text files using the Import Adjacency Matrix command.

Part 3 demonstrates creating design layers to accommodate a space plan that occupied multiple floors or levels.

Part 5 demonstrates creating walls automatically from the completed Space object layout using the Create Walls from Spaces command.

TUTORIAL> SYNTACTIC DESIGN

Pirouz Nourian

Syntactic Design* (Designing with Space Syntax) for Grasshopper. A plugin for configurative architectural design designed and made by Pirouz Nourian and Samaneh Rezvani.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

* a Grasshopper plugin (download)

Guide>EGAN SPACE PLANNING 

Peter Egan

The app is intended to help the user work in an intuitive and graphic way during early design. It allows for multiple rapid, lightweight iterations and reduces repetition and tedium in plan development. Helps keep track of program spaces during the design process and provides constant, graphic display of program reconciliation. The app also provides a rudimentary bubble diagram at each step along the way. The app will import a user defined space program in CSV format. Changes to the program can easily be made and re-imported.

* a Revit  add-on (download)