EXPERIMENT 2 EXTENSION!

Hi All,

Your student reps brought up the issue with workload at today's meeting. We resolved it as best we could by negotiating an extension for EXP2 to Sunday May 10th by 11:59pm.

The extension comes with one condition though; to get this extension you need to sign up to the eLearning repository located here ... http://situationalelearning.com/selar/  

This is the website I demonstrated in the lecture, it is free to sign up and contains loads of useful information regarding the construction of buildings that has been collated from 4 different Australian universities; you would do yourself a great favor by taking a look around (great prep for your construction courses!). It's funded by the Australian Office of Learning and Teaching, so it's free to download whatever you like.

Regards, and go hard!  

LUMION download

Hi All,

Good news!

Thanks to the Built Environment Computing Unit and people at Lumion we have a solution for you:

You can download the educational version (which lets you save your work and reload it later) of Lumion form the faculty server. There are two ways to do that ... visit the faculty labs in person and download it onto a hard drive from the S drive (from a folder called "studentsoftware") ... or, use a VPN to connect to our network from home.

To connect to the UNSW network via VPN go to http://vpn.unsw.edu.au and follow the setup. If you have trouble try another browser. Then copy and paste this file path  \\download.fbe.unsw.edu.au\fbe\studentsoftware\Lumion 4.5.1 into windows explorer.

IMPORTANT!!!!! when you run the educational version it connects to the Lumion servers and gets a temporary licence. When you close Lumion you need to be online so your machine can give the license back ... failing to do this will make that license unusable, and as we only have enough for the people in the class someone (possibly you!) will miss out if the licenses get used up. If the license is returned properly they can be reused over and over.

Regards

Russell

BUILDING SITE MODELS IN GROUPS

Hi All,

Some of you have been right in thinking that building a site model to situate your Marker would be useful, if not critical.

As the general site will be the same for most of you it would be worthwhile to get together and divide up the work; one student models an over bridge, another models the site contours, etc etc.

Keep in mind that each of you will have a different way that your Marker engages with the landscape surrounding it so the local surrounds will be unique.

Regards

Russell  

Blacktown International Sports Park Marker Project Files

Hi All,

The files supplied by Blacktown Architect Larry Adams are linked from the EXP2 brief page ... but you'll find them below also:

http://russelllowe.com/arch1101_2015/experiment2/reference/M7_Marker_LarryAdams.pdf

and

http://russelllowe.com/arch1101_2015/experiment2/reference/BlackTown_CAD_Drawing.zip

Regards

Attendence will be recorded at Thursdays lecture

Hi All,

As the title says, your attendance will be recorded at Thursdays lecture.

In addition to the lecture, Jeremy Harkins, Director at INENI realtime, will be giving a demo of his best tips and tricks for using SketchUp. Jeremy is an expert in SkethUp so this will be a valuable opportunity to learn from the best.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

Regards

Russell

Grasshopper Tutorials for CoDe students

Hi All,

The Code students in the studio might find these tutorials on learning Grasshopper useful; I did.

http://elsewarecollective.com/AIR/Tutorial%20Videos/AIR_TutorialVideoList.pdf 

The creators of the tutorials explain their approach as follows:

"The video tutorials that we have put together are intended to demonstrate the use of particular Grasshopper components or geometry and programming concepts in the most interesting and architecturally relevant ways as we can manage. In some cases this is done within larger definitions (that are not explained) or using more sophisticated data structuring (again, that is ignored in the demonstration). This is intentional and we hope, not too frustrating. At these points in the videos later tutorials are sometimes mentioned (for you to skip too if the frustration gets too much) or simply the technical topics which will shed more light on the subject.

Our experiences with developing content and delivering it a workshop or studio environment have taught us that without some of this compromise, initial exercises can be incredibly uninspiring and unexciting. To inject this inspiration into the introduction of the design environment we have taken some of the most inspiring and exciting design projects of late and ‘reverse-engineered’ them (although they are not perfect imitations)."

I think its a very sensible approach as it gets you creating interesting and useful things straight away.

If you haven't already found this page, it's also very useful (especially because it broadens the application to Jewelry, Furniture and Industrial Design):

http://www.rhino3d.com/tutorials#grasshopper

And finally, from Andrew Wallace's presentation last Thursday:

http://a-shape.com/ you'll find his top 10 tips by following the link on learning.

Regards

Tutorial lists

Hi All,

When you signed up for the course you would have put yourself down for a particular tutorial/studio group. This is just a procedural thing that the university wide enrollment system demands ... we reorder these groups to get the right mix of students (by program enrollment) in each studio.

You'll find your new group allocation here:  http://www.russelllowe.com/arch1101_2015/course_info/tutorial_groups.htm 

(hint: use ctrl+f if you are on a PC to search for your name).

I'm looking forward to seeing you all at the first lecture which starts at 12 today; it's at map reference G19 here and on the left in the photo below; you'll see it as you look up the main walkway.

Regards