Design is defined as a sketch or plan. With every plan, unexpected things will happen. Yet, these unexpected things are what makes the design great.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
This concrete looks ordinary enough but it’s actually bioconcrete - a new variation developed by the Delft Technical University which uses bacteria to repair itself.
My sister wanted a colorful painting for her new office so i did 3 :)
I’ve been messing with rendering and then applying some aesthetics afterwards in Photoshop. Here is a simple massing model I did, I think it cam out quite well! If you’re interested in how to do this, just message me and I’ll send you the tutorial!
For our final project, we were given a site in Pittsburgh, PA. This site was a parking lot that was inbetween the market and business districts, so our porject was to design a building to house a marketplace and an office building. So what better way to learn about your site and how it engages its environment then going down to it!
Our entire junior studio drove the four hours from Buffalo, NY to Pittsburgh, PA to see and document the site. This was an extremely fun trip and we were able to walk not only around the market district but also downtown. The culture Pittsburgh has is amazing and I would love to go back!
Its been a long time coming!
It was been a very long time since I’ve posted any of my work for school, about 6 months to be exact! However, I am going to get back to it and finish posting stuff from my fall semester of junior year, then show everyone what I did this past semester! But first things first, I need to tag all my past posts so people can search them :P It might take a while but it will be worth it getting my work out there!
Hope to post new stuff soon!
Final Thoughts on ARC 411: AutoCAD
Even though I only posted two of the four projects that we did in ARC 411, I believe they were the two most important projects. The rendering and parametric project some very important skills that will help me through my career. The rendering project was especially helpful because up to this point, I had never rendered! I used photoshop and pictures of my models, which isn’t a bad way to do it, but they look much more professional when rendered. If you ever take a class like this, take it seriously! Don’t just do the minimum amount of work to get by because this is the time and the opportunity to learn and get the help you need to excel! Overall, this class was extremely educational and has had a great impact on my overall skills as an architect.
This is the link to our classes website that has tutorials and other very helpful information. Feel free to ask me for help as well!
Our second project in ARC 411: AutoCAD was to write a script in Grasshopper to create an architectural feature inspired by our precedent building or a piece of our studio work.So, I continued to work with the O-14 Tower. Grasshopper is a parametric software, which allows for a lot of experimentation once a model is built. However, getting a model to work is another story. I was able to get a nice, working model after several iterations. What the script does is make the unique filleted polygon holes that are in the O-14 facade. The script lays out the shapes on a triangular grid, then extrudes, caps, and booleans the shape from a mass. The script works great! The photo doesn’t show any detail but if anyone is interested in the files, I’d gladly share them with you!
In ARC 411: AutdoCAD, these are the final rendering of the O-14 Tower. The model was made in Rhino, rendering in 3DS Max, and finalized in Photoshop. The night time photo is my favorite!
To understand how light is truly interacting with my wall design, I was assigned to make a 3D model of it and use a program called Radiance to see how light, on March 21, at 12:00 PM, comes into the building. Overall, I think the lighting is pretty consistent and well lit throughout the level. Radiance is a very finicky software, so if anyone needs help or has questions, feel free to ask!
This is the final product for the building facade project. I really like this 2nd iteration of this wall for several reasons. First, the corner condition of the wall actually works. Second, the voids have a purpose now, be it for letting in light and certain times of the day, or framing certain views of the outside. Finally, my favorite part is the larger voids and holes. The look very nice and just seem to work better than the smaller voids. These larger voids will continue to grow into my final project.
For my second iteration of the building facade, I took a different approach at making the walls. Instead of pours 2 very large, very heavy pieces, I made 6 thinner, smaller panels. This is the process I went through to make the panels. After using plaster for most of this semester, I have become pretty good at using it. So if anyone has any questions about plaster, feel free to ask!
I am an architecture student from the University of Buffalo!
Gathering the architecture community on Tumblr.
Reblog this, so that we can see who’s who.
After a week or two, I’ll post every single blog that has an architect/architecture student behind it, or any blog that has something to do with architecture.
It will be a nice promo for everyone
Here is the O-14 building I have been modeling in my AutoCAD class. I constructed it in Rhino 3D then exported it as a .3ds into 3DS Max to render. You can not see the interior in these rendering, but I put in all the stairs, elevators, and even some furniture! If anyone has questions on how I made it, feel free to ask!
This is the building we had to create an exterior skin for. This is the Occidental Chemical Building located in Niagara Falls, NY. It has great view on the southwest facade of Niagara Falls, which I would like to capture. I am going to modify the voids and opening to not only capture views, but also to focus light at certain time of the year depending on the sun’s position.
This is our review for our second project. We had to take our first object and try to apply it as an external facade of a building. These are all the “building facades” on the our mock up “building.” Next we will get a specific building and program to change our walls to. I’ll post pictures of my own individual model next!
