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Year 2010

Data Safety

We’re an office. We have stuff on hard drives. They go kaput every once in a while: count on it. Here’s the data protection overview.

Angry Birds

Glass is Air, Windows are Trees, Buildings are Sky

Every year millions of birds die by striking reflective or clear window glass in full flight.

National Geographic’s introductory video.

Building Materials Reuse

A useful link: brma.org

One-to-One Textures

Textures are typically understood to be a repeating module marching across the surface of an element. Which is why so many of them are so bad – it is not that easy to work out the edges of each texture image to seamlessly match up with itself on all sides.

Wall Cleanup Tip using Column Tool

Passing along a tip from onland.info.

Wall Typology

An enduring clot of inefficiency in our process involves establishing and managing schedules of partition and wall types in our construction documents. New features of the AC14 label tool might help. Discussion.

Vented Rain Screens

Water. The architect’s nemesis.

Shuttle Launch

Medieval, jaw-dropping technical geekery at gargantuan scale, invoking the technological sublime.

Terrain

We’ll expand on this later. Meanwhile:

Digtal Vision: comprehensive site modeling pdf.

Graphisoft help article on mesh techniques.

Bobrow’s exposition.

On Land: two excellent posts: one, two.

Fender Katsalidis

One of my favorite houses ever. Drive on over to projects/1991/St. Andrews for the house, then explore.