• April 14 - May 13, 2008 - Planning Period
• April 14 - May 31, 2008 - Ongoing Charrette
• May 14, 2008 - Live Charrrette in Boston and Virtually
• June, 2008 - Webinar Presentation of BIMStorm

The Plan for Boston. Several scenarios are emerging and will continue to evolve.

The Existing City Hall Building, BIMStorm Looms overhead...

• Project #1 - Boston City Hall - Retrofit and modernization to look at sustainable urban design solutions for the existing city hall. The "i" of this BIMStorm will be Boston City Hall. A controversial building that we feel can be a catalyst for an exploration of what is possible with an existing building. The study of this scheme will start during the Boston BIMStorm and continue on until fall of 2008.

• Tasks
  • Build existing Boston City Hall in BIM to be used as a baseline of current condition.
  • Create several schemes, based on studies that have been underway for over 10 years.
  • Compare schemes to identify optimal solution to be used as a case study at the AIA TAP Conference on May 14, 2008.
  • Identify audience members that will interact with the case study live.
  • Engage other BIMStorm veterans to interact with the case study by attaching comments and files to the selected scheme.
  • Create reports to analyze cost and energy use of scheme.
  • Analyze water runoff
  • Build alternate site for new Boston City Hall by the pier to compare with the renovation scheme.
  • Export schemes as IFC to BIM and continue work in other "bim" applications such as Revit, Archicad, VectorWorks^?, and SketchUp^?
  • Energy analysis in Ecotect, Green Buidling Studio and Onuma.

• Some of the issues to be addressed in this project:
  • Sustainable Urban Design
  • Open Space
  • Transportation
  • Green Roofs
  • Storm Water Management
  • Accessibility
  • Energy Savings
  • Healthy Interiors
  • Security
  • Transparent Government
  • and more...

Should the existing City Hall be renovated?

Should a new City Hall be built by the waterfront?

• References
  • Wikipedia Info on Boston City Hall
  • SketchUp Model of Boston City Hall
  • Green Renovation of Boston City Hall
  • Boston Globe Article - Council to investigate plan to move City Hall
  • Architecture Boston - Sep/Oct 2007, Issue -RE-Imagining City Hall

• Project #2 - Museum for Boston

• The National Capital Planning Commission team from Washington DC did a great job of jumping into the New Orleans BIMStorm at the last minute and designing a museum. A museum program was defined in Onuma and the team picked up that requirement and went through a process of exporting the IFC file to Revit and SketchUp and posting the results back to the BIMStorm site.
• We would like to see more of this type of a process in Boston.
• Using the two museum programs developed in Los Angeles and New Orleans, create a new version for Boston.

• Project #3 - US Coast Guard Building in Boston
• The US Coast Guard needs a new headquarters type building in Boston.
• Study existing buildings in Boston that can house the required programming area for the Coast Guard.

• Project #4 - Medical Center
• A new medical center for Boston.

• Project #5 - Fire Stations and Emergency Services
• Define new fire stations that will be required for the next 20 years in Boston.
• Locate them on Google Earth.

• Project #6 - Audience Participation, Build Boston II
• Using the format developed in BIMStorm Pasadena, have audience submit projects that will be created during the demonstration.
• Goal is to locate up to 40 buildings in Boston.
• Identify sustainability goals for these buildings.
• Create reports of energy use and cost
• Simulate 4D build up for 20 years.

• Submit Your Project