The Asharoken House is a 3 story, single-family home located in Northport, NY on Long Island. The site is located on a sand bar overlooking Northport Bay and the site's flat landscape is prone to flooding during severe weather conditions. The home is designed to fit within the fabric of the surrounding neighborhood, where most lots are long and narrow, and the building materials align with a coastal motif.
The project includes a comprehensive 3D BIM model with various elements, such as stories and site details like site modifiers, hardscapes, and other site-specific features, interior furnishings like furniture, countertops, cabinets, and light fixtures, organized by style. Traditional building objects, like walls, windows, doors, and more are organized by styles for consistency.
The Grotto is a penthouse/rooftop private club project.
Designed on a historic building in Chicago. It incorporates biophilia principles.
Chicago has 509 vegetated roofs with 5,564,000 square feet green roof coverage. Initiatives began in 2001 with their city hall green roof to reduce heat island effect and storm water management.
Dover Dam is a residential project located on an existing farm. The project is a 3D BIM model that includes stories, a site with modifiers, hardscapes, marionette objects, interior furnishings, and light fixtures in addition to traditional building objects organized by styles. The documentation makes use of viewport styles, smart markers, data tags, dimensions, callouts, 2D annotation tools, grid lines, elevation benchmarks, graphic legends, worksheets, title blocks, class overrides, and data visualizations specifically to modify and enhance drawings.
The Gallery 196 project is a great example of a BIM project which includes a full set of drawings, details, and Schedules. Several techniques such as Class overrides, Data Tags, and Styles are used throughout the project along with various rendering styles.
In addition, the file includes a site model, plant objects, landscape areas as well as hardscape elements. For 2023, the Gallery project gets several new reports in the form of door types and window types using the new Graphic Legend tool. There’s
also an updated version of the Elevation Benchmark shown on Design Layers as well as sections and elevation sheets. Spaces were updated to use Data Tags in both plan view and in section to show room names and numbers. A new site model that shows several
of the new site improvement features is also provided.
As a valued member of the Vectorworks Community, we would like to welcome you to this exploration file. We give an overview of the project objectives below, but to jump straight into exploring the project, we suggest running through the Saved
Views and Sheet Layers (in the Navigation Palette).
This Residential Kitchen exploration file illustrates how a project can be taken from conceptual stages to a fully rendered model with Vectorworks and the additional plugin Interiorcad (designed for custom joinery). Once the model has been
created, construction drawings, cutting lists and part layouts can be printed or exported directly from Vectorworks.
This project was completed in collaboration with our Vectorworks partner Interiorcad, you can view the webinar accompanying this file on the Vectorworks University (Residential Interior Drawings: Kitchen). The project
uses out of the box Vectorworks tools for the modeling of the building, the freeform conceptual modeling and layout phase and for standard cabinetry. The Interiorcad plug-in was used for generating cutting lists of the custom cabinetry including fixtures
and fittings, all with accurate construction joining details i.e. mitered joints and drawer handle profiles.
Please note that without Interiorcad installed, those cabinets created with the plug-in are not editable.
As targets for achieving Net Zero carbon in both construction and operation are set by governments and legislative bodies, the need to reduce embodied carbon emissions becomes more critical, as does the requirement for intelligent digital tools to assess
it. Embodied carbon represents the total sum of emissions required to produce goods (such as a building material) or activities (such as transporting those materials to the construction site), hence the emissions are considered to be ‘embodied’ in
the product.
Vectorworks Embodied Calculator (VECC) is the in-built tool for Embodied Carbon Calculation in Vectorworks that provides an integrated modelling and carbon assessment workflow, allowing designers to quickly measure the impact of their Material and Product
choices on the carbon footprint of their project.
For instruction on how to use VECC, read the User Guide contained in the download folder or open Vectorworks file in the same folder and read the User Guide in the Sheets using the Navigation palette.
The CUBE provides a BIM workflow demonstration, showing the process of modelling a generic, 4 storey office building using Vectorworks Architect. The focus rests firmly on the BIM process and explores the progress of the model through digital work stages and Level of Information Need, all the while referencing back to the UK BIM Framework and ISO19650 relevant standards.
Parametric tools, intelligent objects, data handling and creating associated views from the BIM model are demonstrated as best practice use, to streamline and optimise the design and modelling process while ensuring the maximum quality and consistency of delivery information.
The Silver Dog Café is an interiors project within an historic Greyhound Bus Terminal. The terminal was designed by William Arrasmith in the 1930s with streamlined horizontal banding and curved wrap-around facade epitomizing the Art Deco aesthetic popular at the time. A double-height space in the rear of the building presented an opportunity to design the café with outdoor seating. The project uses two reference files; one comprised of the shell building and the other a small exterior lighting element.
This is a renovation project of an existing structure that highlights Data Mapping and Data Visualization. The file organization can be used as a sample of a renovation workflow. The project uses two referenced files; one comprised of the site model and the other a sample of HVAC system using IFC file format.
The High Tor project is a modern suburb townhouse development project. The main strip of residences was detailed using a data-driven BIM workflow and incorporating a typical Vectorworks file organization of Layers, Stories, and Sheet Layers for the drawing set. This project utilizes coordinated drawing techniques such as data visualization, smart markers, data tags, title blocks, graphic legends, elevation benchmarks, and more. You will find developed interiors for all six units of this residential townhome complex. One PDF file of the entire drawing set is included.
As a valued member of the Vectorworks community we would like to welcome you to this exploration file, provided by Vectorworks. We provide an overview of the project's objectives below, but to jump straight into exploring the project, we suggest running
through the Saved Views and/or the Sheet Layers. The House Residential sample file consists of 3 files:
The first two, named House in Half an Hour, provide a simple and straightforward way to get to grips with modelling using parametric tools such as Walls, Slabs, Roofs, Windows and Doors. The first file is a template providing a blank slate with guides
and instructions for quick start modelling practice. The second file shows how the model should look like once finished. The third file is a developed stage model that provides an insight into some of the more advanced workflows in Vectorworks - particularly
model data processing. Materials have been used extensively, to provide both graphic attributes to objects and also as means to obtain quantity take offs, which in turn populate our Embodied Carbon Calculator and Bills of Quantities live worksheets.
Energos energy analysis project settings and results can also be explored using this model.
Project organisation in these files includes a generic Storey setup and Design Layers linked with Storey Levels. A Class structure is based on the UK's Uniclass2015. Resources such as Wall Styles which work with Storey Levels can be found in the Resource
Manager. This has been setup so you can immediately start modelling using those resources and project settings.
This multi-story, custom residential project highlights the challenges of designing and documenting a project on a steep slope. The project features the use of both architecture and landscape architecture design elements and tools.
