Saturday, May 06, 2006
DOE: High Performance Buildings - Design Approach
DOE: High Performance Buildings - Design Approach: "A high-performance commercial building is a building with energy, economic, and environmental performance that is substantially better than standard practice. It's energy efficient, so it saves money and natural resources. It's a healthy place to live and work for its occupants and has relatively low impact on the environment. All this is achieved through a process called whole-building design."
Renzo Piano Building Workshop Official Site - The New York Times Building, New York City (NY), USA
Renzo Piano Building Workshop Official Site - The New York Times Building, New York City (NY), USA
One of the hundreds of references to this innovative 'sustainable' building.
"How architects build brands". 'The golden Age of the Skyscraper" Articles byWitold Rybczynski
How architects build brands. By Witold Rybczynski: "How architects market themselves."
Check out also Slate's Slide Show related to Witold's article 'The golden Age of the Skyscraper"
Make for interesting reading.
optics.org
optics.org: "Light transmitting concrete is set to go on sale later this year."
Found this today. Date is 11 March 2004, and I don't see evidence for the widespread sale of this stuff yet - but who knows? I wonder what the optical properties are and how one might therefore model them?
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
BBSC 303 Digital Craft Lecture 7 - 2 May 2006
We watched an 18 minute 1995 video James Burke
. He described the problems of communication between Architecture and Building Science computer programs. He also described the beginning of what has become a programme of 10 years in length developing the Building Information Model (BIM). The pros and cons of the idea and what exactly the concept might lead to were the major themes of this presentation.
David Harrison then presented his paper that he presented in early April to the CAADRIA conference in Kumamoto in Japan. He described his research project and thus the background to Reasonate. He also showed how to use a number of the enhanced features of Reasonate, including a first introduction to how to use the new 'Web Page' feature to make and publish the web pages that will be a core part of the hand in of Assignment 1 and Assignment 2.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Planet PDF - Review: Adobe Acrobat 3D
Planet PDF - Review: Adobe Acrobat 3D: "With Acrobat 3D, its newest addition to the Acrobat family, Adobe pushed the envelope of PDF capabilities. Adobe Acrobat 3D expands next-generation PDF workflow into the 3D worlds of Manufacturing and AEC (architecture, engineering and construction)."
Now this looks like a logical and exciting extensions to the Right Hemisphere 3D pdf expoert options we already have ...
Thursday, April 27, 2006
Google SketchUp (free) SUD
Google SketchUp (free) SUD: "The person who says it can't be done shouldn't interrupt the person who is doing it."
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Daylighting for the 21st Century
Daylighting for the 21st Century
Two years ago, but not yet out-of-date. An article in 'Architectural Lighting' on the issues in daylighting. James points out that unlike Victoria, there are many schools in the USA who "... have faculty with genuine daylighting expertise; and even fewer have artificial skies, helidons, and other systems for scale modeling and measuring daylighting performance. There is a tenuous acceptance of computer analysis and an unfortunate scale-modeling-versus-computer-modeling controversy brewing." The work that is being done by the IEA is a step towards improving this situation.
3D Collaboration Spaces: What Future Ahead? - Online Collaboration and Web Conferencing Breaking News - Kolabora.com
3D Collaboration Spaces: What Future Ahead? - Online Collaboration and Web Conferencing Breaking News - Kolabora.com
"3D immersive virtual reality spaces in which people can meet, talk, present, and exchange documents and files have been around for over two years now." - Now, what about applications where architects, interior designers and buuilding scientists collaborate on modelling reality which is creative and challenging, not merely a decoration of the net environment?
Maturing Visualization Tools Make Ideas Look Real - Construction Industry, News Articles, Business Conditions
Maturing Visualization Tools Make Ideas Look Real - Construction Industry, News Articles, Business Conditions
Learn a little bit about what 4D might mean to people involved in construction...
CADwire.net - Articles > Avoiding Mistakes, Saving Money: The Case for Virtual Design and Construction
CADwire.net - Articles > Avoiding Mistakes, Saving Money: The Case for Virtual Design and Construction
A corporate AIA view of the things that can be done with true 3D models - 'virtual' or ebuildings.
Ellen’s Knowledge blog » Blog Archive » The Fish Story, or reduction of the nonessential
Ellen’s Knowledge blog » Blog Archive » The Fish Story, or reduction of the nonessential
Ellen Finkelstein has some really interesting things to say about effective communication. Here is a link of great use in the upcoming weeks as we get onto designing our own web pages - writing web pages that communicate well
Modern building rises in heart of ancient Rome - Yahoo! News
Modern building rises in heart of ancient Rome - Yahoo! News
"ROME (Reuters) - After years of controversy, Rome on Friday unveiled the first modern building to rise in its ancient centre since dictator Benito Mussolini ruled Italy more than half a century ago.
Renowned U.S. architect Richard Meier was on hand for the inauguration of the Ara Pacis museum, a steel, glass and marble structure that has fired Roman passions with one critic comparing it to a giant petrol station."
An article of interest for two reasons - another building for the list of buildings for future Digital Craft classes - and a description of the new buildings under construction or planned for Rome.
ArchitectureWeek - Tools - Digital Physical Mashup - 2006.0419
ArchitectureWeek - Tools - Digital Physical Mashup - 2006.0419
A digital design studio - not unlike the second year project we have been running at Victoria for the past 10 years or so -
Aura :: 601 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, California, United States :: Glass Steel and Stone
Aura :: 601 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, California, United States :: Glass Steel and Stone
Check this out for a lesson in how a very simple block can be dressed up with a 3D 'skin' that alters our perception of the blockiness... A far cry for Daniel Libeskind from the V&A spiral or the Denver art meseum addition...
New Orleans woman runs for mayor of Disneyland | The Register
New Orleans woman runs for mayor of Disneyland | The Register
Is this waht Baudrillard was writing about - the virtual becomes the reality in some sense? The article raises an interesting possibility that the 'restoration' of New Orleans will become a gentrification / ersatz 'safe' and 'cleaned up' version of what used to be there... And then is it any longer New Orleans?
Friday, April 14, 2006
Illuminated Tiles facilitate emergency egress., Steuler Fliesen GmbH
Check out this story at the Thomasnet 'Industrial Newsroom". A European company has developed a ceramic tile with embedded LED lighting. Now all you have to do is develop a use for them! They suggest there are 'endless opportunities for luxurious design...' I presume luxurious is the usual code word for expensive. Still, wonder where I can get the IES format file for including them in a render?
Illuminated Tiles facilitate emergency egress., Steuler Fliesen GmbH
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