Measured survey and Revit model of an 83 m² two-story terraced house in Monkstown, Dublin, on a rear garden that falls away from the house. A residential design firm needed the property drawn for an initial feasibility study. GeoMaus produced a scan-to-BIM Revit model, plans, elevations, a section, a tour, and raw scan data from 73 scan points.
Monkstown, Dublin
83 m²
Luxury Residential
A residential design firm was appointed to look at options for this terraced house and needed it measured before any sketches started. The study had to work with the house, its attic, and the garden behind it, so the firm wanted all three recorded together on one base. Early design studies for terraced homes are typical of our residential survey work.
From the street the house is a modest two-story terrace, but the plot is far from level. Levels fall by about 1.3 m from the ground floor to the lower garden, with steps between terraces and two sheds at the rear, so every outdoor level needed recording as carefully as the rooms.
Inside, the capture covered the entrance, living room, office, utility room, bathroom, and kitchen and dining room on the ground floor, then the landing, two bedrooms, and bathroom above. The attic under the pitched roof was included, and outside it took in both sheds and the stepped rear garden.
What the firm needed most was the relationship between the house and the falling garden, because most options for a small terrace grow to the rear. Drawings in PDF with a section through the house and garden would show that change in level clearly, and a Revit model plus a Matterport 3D tour would let the team check any corner of the plot without another visit.
GeoMaus captured the property in 73 scan points with Matterport capture, room by room through both floors and the attic, then down the garden steps to the sheds. Each scan point was registered into a single point cloud, so the house and the lower garden share one set of levels for measured building survey drawings.
Modeling the garden terraces and sheds in the same Revit file as the house meant the 1.3 m fall to the lower garden sits in one set of levels with the rooms. Any rear addition the firm sketched could be checked against real steps and ground heights, not a level site that does not exist.
The handover gave the firm a PDF drawing set, a Revit file, and the virtual tour, plus raw scan data from all 73 positions. The section carries the house through to the lower garden, so the change in level behind the house is drawn rather than estimated.
The firm could then test layouts and any rear additions against the measured house and the real fall of the garden. Should the study lead to a fuller design stage, the same existing drawings remain the starting point. More of our Dublin house surveys cover similar homes.
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