those who actually come up with the preliminary design concept for a building project. by design architects, project architects, practice owners, practice principals, etc. GenesisĪs I emphasized in the above referenced article: “ Any tool in which you have to model walls, a floor, and a ceiling to create a space is NOT a conceptual building design tool.” This rules out the use of popular BIM applications like Revit, Archicad, Allplan, Vectorworks, etc. It is the new Spaces iPad app, developed by a startup company, Cerulean Labs. ![]() Well, it’s been 7 years, but we finally have the start of something like this. Is there nothing else we can do to make the process of conceptualizing a building smarter, more intuitive, more fun? Why can’t we simply be able to sketch out a building design - say a floor plan or a façade - and automatically get a fully detailed, structurally sound, constructable BIM without actually having to model every bit of it? Is this too much to ask for? ![]() As far back as in 2015 in the article, “ Why Isn't There a Smarter BIM Tool for Building Design, Yet?,” I had bemoaned the lack of a smart conceptual design tool for architecture, asking:
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