Towards a Non-descriptive BIM Geometry: A Teaching Experience

Abstract

This paper presents the teaching methodology designed for a Master’s Degree optional course as an emergency measure to prevent newly graduated students from entering the construction labor market without having acquired a minimum of skills in the BIM environment. The previous training of these students–Architecture or Technical Architecture graduates–, enabled to develop a methodology similar to one that could be used to teach a course to professionals in an architecture studio. In this particular case, teaching was based on the creation of families and the definition of parameters that would meet the necessary requirements to formalize the documentation of a basic project and an executive project. This approach avoids the use of families of construction elements predicted by BIM modeling software, so that, from the very beginning, the learner must decide and model the information, and graphic representation of all the elements of the virtual building. © 2020, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.