Revit Adaptive Components & Curved Facades (Panelling 2)

Analyze a double-curvature facade and model it in Revit using in-place massing, editing profiles, extruding forms, and dividing surfaces into panels for adaptive components.

Create a divided surface on a curved form using reference planes and control points, then refine the panel grid with a curtain system set to fixed distance or maximum spacing.

Explore how to reveal and control masses in views, adjust curtain system panels, and divide surfaces with maximum spacing and 45-degree grid rotation to create panels that follow curved geometry.

Describe curtain panel limitations: curvature requires at least three surface points, not possible with four-point patterns, and propose adaptive components without a grid line to achieve organic curves.

Create the panel frame by offsetting the outer frame and forming three to five profiles with a middle void, apply a frame-thickness formula tied to offsets, and test in place.

The lecture demonstrates designing glass-on-top panels by adjusting the frame height and thickness, creating adaptive profiles and applying glass thickness and negative height parameters for a curved curtain wall.

Invert panel parameters to flip orientation, turning total height, frame height, and thickness negative so panels face the correct direction in Revit, then proceed to create beams.

Create a curved beam with an adaptive component in Revit, set points on a reference plan, define a circular profile radius, and apply a repeater for panel placement.

Inspect and revise the beam to fix a leaning panel, rebuild with a new reference plan, and prevent profile flipping using negative offsets.

Edit the panel family to substitute the void-driven frame with a curved profile and new thickness offsets, then save as a new frame profile and load it into the panel.

Adjust number of panels to forty two in one direction and twenty four in the other, change the glass to bronze, and use a camera to evaluate the curved façade.

Finish the model by adding flat triangular panels at the edges using curtain panels or adaptive components, then explore curved panels and edge orientation challenges.

Explore curved triangular panels that follow surface curvature, using seven points and lofted profiles to create tapered, multi-surface forms beyond flat triangles.

Create the surrounding geometry around a surface by copying levels, forming a void from a rectangle, and using massing and curtain walls in Revit panelling 2.