About this asset

This Revit family provides a concrete quadripod coastal defence unit, designed for civil engineering site and landscape modelling. The quadripod unit features a distinct four-legged geometry designed for interlocking stability in coastal wave-attenuation applications. It consists of four tapered, cylindrical arms radiating from a central core, creating a robust, multifaceted form that effectively dissipates hydraulic energy. The geometry is clean and simplified, suitable for mass-array placement in site plans or large-scale coastal infrastructure visualisations. Its monolithic concrete appearance is rendered with a neutral grey finish, maintaining a standard industrial aesthetic typical of heavy marine civil works, and it is built as a single, solid Revit family component.

The download is a 420 KB file containing a Revit family (.rfa). Load it into a project from the Insert tab with Load Family, then place it like any other component of its category; it schedules and tags with the rest of your model.

Users can load this RFA file directly into a Revit project environment, placing the unit as a standard family component within site plan views or 3D site models. Because these elements are typically used in large quantities, it is recommended to manage them through a linked site model or as a nested group to maintain project performance. Materials can be assigned to the concrete surface via the family parameters to allow for custom texture mapping or visual style adjustments.

This asset is intended for civil engineers, coastal planners, and landscape architects working on shoreline protection, harbour infrastructure, and breakwater design projects. It is essential for representing large-scale coastal defence systems in site analysis, environmental impact studies, and masterplanning documentation. Professionals searching for this component will typically use terms like sea wall, breakwater unit, coastal protection, marine civil works, and site infrastructure to locate the file within their BIM library for accurate site massing and environmental context modelling.