Project 04 :
The Kestrel
SAIT's Architectural Technologies
Semester 4 Capstone Project
The "Open Option" Capstone
January 2020 - April 2020
In the open option capstone, students made all of the decisions that lead to their final product. They started by choosing a team of up to 4 people, or choosing to work individually. Once the teams were decided, they chose to either create working drawings for a pre-designed project or start from scratch and design their own project. There were no regulations on site, type of building, size of building, or anything else. The scale of the project depended on how many people were working on it. An individual student was not required to submit a project on the same scale as a team of four. With that being said, the evaluation was not bias.
In previous semesters, the students had exposure to a single-family residential home from part 9 of the Building Code, a mixed-use building from either part 9 or part 3 of the Building Code, and a fully commercial building from part 3 of the Building Code. The initial submission requirements were a set of architectural drawings that satisfied a development permit, as well as presentation boards, building code reviews, and project binders. As they progressed through the program, they dove deeper into a set of drawings that satisfied the building permit. The ultimate goal of the open option capstone was to create a set of drawings that could be approved by the City of Calgary and end up being built.
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Meet the Team :
TBM Architects
TBM Architects
Logo - designed by Virginie Tran
Patricia Arduo
Project Manager/BIM Coordinator/Technologist
Virginie Tran
Designer/Technologist
Sarah Afolayan
Researcher/Technologist
Project Description
Building Type
The Kestrel is a mid-rise multi-residential building. It features two levels of underground parking, two-storey townhouses, four levels of basic condo suites, one level of larger condo suites, one level of penthouse suites, and a public, wheelchair accessible, rooftop patio.
Location
The Kestrel is located at 327 9A Street NW Calgary.
Software
The construction drawings were created using Revit, the renderings and videos were done in Lumion by importing the Revit files, and the presentation board was done in Photoshop.
Key Skills
Project Management
During this project, Patricia took the position of the project manager. She was in charge of creating the Gantt chart, delegating tasks, hosting weekly team meetings to ensure the team was on track and handling all submissions. This role was tough when working with friends because it can be difficult to find the personal and professional balance.
BIM Coordination
Patricia also took the lead on managing the BIM files. She created the Revit template and title block, set up the work sets for collaboration and managed the BIM 360 folders. Throughout the semester, she was constantly verifying that files were being put in the proper place and that Revit elements were being created on the proper work set. She was accountable for the drawings standards, making sure they matched with SAIT's drawing standards or typical industry standards, if applicable. She was also in charge of doing drawing set revisions, so she kept a PDF copy of the current progress at the end of every week.
Collaboration
Of course during this project they had to use Revit's collaboration feature. Although there were many hiccups, they worked well enough to get through the semester. It was tricky, owning work sets are relinquishing them seemed simple, but sometimes they would struggle with gaining or giving access to other team members.