Stacked Walls: Alternative Uses

Stacked walls are often one of the lesser used functions in Revit. It does have its own pro's and con's, but in this entry, we will look at what one can achieve using stacked walls. This is not necessarily a how-to post, it is more of a "what can we do with stacked walls"  post.

None the less, let's get started

The basic composition of this stacked wall is 9 Generic 600mm walls with a height of 250mm. Stacked walls does however require at least 1 section of variable wall, which forms the 10th piece of wall.

I quite like the fact that due to a stacked wall being just that: a wall, the normal wall editing functionality still applies. Selecting the stacked walls and pressing space bar will flip the walls' orientation.

Editing wall joins only affects the variable layer of the stacked wall.

Wall profile edits will allow you to edit the top and bottom of the stacked wall - Think base and top constraint. Any closed profile sketched inside of the outer profile boundaries will create a cut out.

Attaching the top of the stacked wall to a floor and roof also works. Note that the variable layer only attaches to the roof.

A wall is a wall and thus the typical architectural and structural column behaviour still applies when adding those "through" the wall.

Wall sweeps and reveals can also be added to the stacked wall.

When I tested the updating of the stacked wall to a conceptual mass, I noticed something interesting: The "Update to face" icon in the ribbon wasn't there anymore. Seeing that I was using Revit 2019 for this entry, I noticed that the latter has been replaced with a "Remake" icon in the options bar.

Using stacked walls, we can still host elements on the faces of the wall itself, like wall-based or face-based lighting fixtures.

Have a great week, folks!