Fire Rating Automation

Munich, Germany | 2019 - 2020

Work performed during tenure at a+p Architekten.

Faced with the task of assigning fire safety ratings to over 3,000 doors in the planned renovation of Europe's largest cultural center, the existing data and elements already present in the model were used to programmatically designate these ratings. This would not only avoid human error, but would save dozens hours of time, and could be further utilized on other projects.

A series of logic was developed in the form of a flow chart to work through a range of boolean tests based on the fire safety rating of the doors' hosting walls and proximity to rooms that may also be significant to fire safety and egress.

This logic was then recreated in Dynamo. Based on a door's location and host, the proper parameter value would be determined and assigned in Revit.