290 Mulbery is project designed by Shop architects in NY, the first of its kind by Shop exploring fully the parametric modeling and BIM.
The post in http://designreform.net/2008/05/24/shop-architects-290-mulberry-project/
aptly summarizes the work. Some of the programs used were ( as it appeared in the article)
"Through out SD and DD various modeling packages were used 3ds Max, Rhino, Generative Components, Digital Project, and Revit (a some good old fashion Autocad). 3ds Max was used early to experiment with the affect of the brick, then again much later in the process to create photo real marketing imagery; Rhino has been used though out the process for explicit modeling as well as scripting the placement of the bricks in the model (this would have been tough without RhinoScript); Generative Components and Digital Project where used to explore the patterning of the brick; Revit was used to model the building (including the panels) and critical part of the MEP systems."
Whats interesting is that the facade panels were prefabricated and fixed to the facade onsite. Though not an ideal project for prefabrication, pretty cool example of combining parametric modeling to generate interesting prefab components which are not drab/dull as the historic forms.....
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Prefab!!
Lifes being extremely boring wen u hav to work on research and write in a book for thesis committee...So i did just that recently and though its still 60% of its entirety I am feeling as if I have written for PHD.....aah
So something new I shud look into besides the thesis...I listed a couple of topics and one of them was Prefab....this is the first of my excursions in prefab...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WHdFVHfXOQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecofriend.org%2Fentry%2Feco-architecture-bizarre-prefab-constructed-in-just-seven-days%2F&feature=player_embedded
This site has a cool video featuring a house made in just a week...isnt that fabulous????? Its a house by Antón García-Abril called Hemeroscopium house..
wait for more, coz i think i am onto something
So something new I shud look into besides the thesis...I listed a couple of topics and one of them was Prefab....this is the first of my excursions in prefab...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WHdFVHfXOQ&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ecofriend.org%2Fentry%2Feco-architecture-bizarre-prefab-constructed-in-just-seven-days%2F&feature=player_embedded
This site has a cool video featuring a house made in just a week...isnt that fabulous????? Its a house by Antón García-Abril called Hemeroscopium house..
wait for more, coz i think i am onto something
Thursday, March 19, 2009
The 'viRus'
This post is not about computer virus nor about pathological ones.....so doctors n computer geeks, hope this ones not a waste of time fr u!!...
well we all have friends in life, some r cute ones (girls), some r jus friends we smile when we cross them in corridors, etc, some are the ones we like very much (can b girls or guys) but they dont reciprocate, while some r ones who r mean and selfish (so its reversal of the above padigm).....but then there r some who r real close ones to make mess out of ur life for good....I call them viRus....n I have one such friend....haha
well, its like u go around life daily till this viRus attacks u.....then suddenly u start to see new pathological conditions, appreciate some hate some.....but essentially they r conditions u wudnt usually have seen if u wouldnt hav got infected.....u evolve during that span of time, u learn how to fight, u learn how to build hope, see light.....n then one day u realize...u r now used to it...the viRus becomes a part of ur life..
on a funny note...this viRus can screw ur life, but on a senti note...it can show u how to see things differently, how to rise from every sickness, how to appreciate health and how to become one like him... :)
so thats all for now....another unrelated, un-intelligent post, neverthless its dedicated to the viRus i got infected with a few years back!!
well we all have friends in life, some r cute ones (girls), some r jus friends we smile when we cross them in corridors, etc, some are the ones we like very much (can b girls or guys) but they dont reciprocate, while some r ones who r mean and selfish (so its reversal of the above padigm).....but then there r some who r real close ones to make mess out of ur life for good....I call them viRus....n I have one such friend....haha
well, its like u go around life daily till this viRus attacks u.....then suddenly u start to see new pathological conditions, appreciate some hate some.....but essentially they r conditions u wudnt usually have seen if u wouldnt hav got infected.....u evolve during that span of time, u learn how to fight, u learn how to build hope, see light.....n then one day u realize...u r now used to it...the viRus becomes a part of ur life..
on a funny note...this viRus can screw ur life, but on a senti note...it can show u how to see things differently, how to rise from every sickness, how to appreciate health and how to become one like him... :)
so thats all for now....another unrelated, un-intelligent post, neverthless its dedicated to the viRus i got infected with a few years back!!
Monday, March 16, 2009
Digital Ima'gining'
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/ted-digital-six.html
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
This was an interesting post I found out jus a couple of dayz back... the way people interact with information has alwayz being the forefront of research, with the rising of database, pattern recognition and 3G networks....The video features work at MIT Media Lab by Fluid Research group . . Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry.
some other interesting concepts -
SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on GRAPHICS Interactive Tehnology)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1p783HOcCA&feature=related
microsofts surface (codename Milan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ
This clip shows a product similar to surface by Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel at Ted conference in 2006. Pretty similar technology as it appears, though it has some differences . .
Some interesting fact about multitouch are - the research began since 1982 at University of Toronto and Bell Labs. The product idea for Microsoft surface was first conceived in 2001 by Steven Bathiche and Andy Wilson at Microft, the product idea presented to Gates in 2003, surface unveiled to industry in May 2007 by Steve Ballmer at 'Wall Street Journals' 'D" All things digital conference and the first surface deployed to AT&T in April 17th 2008...
Deskrama
This is a research technology by Digitarama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJSYJU2TdZk
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
This was an interesting post I found out jus a couple of dayz back... the way people interact with information has alwayz being the forefront of research, with the rising of database, pattern recognition and 3G networks....The video features work at MIT Media Lab by Fluid Research group . . Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry.
some other interesting concepts -
SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on GRAPHICS Interactive Tehnology)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1p783HOcCA&feature=related
microsofts surface (codename Milan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh1Rv0PlOQ
This clip shows a product similar to surface by Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel at Ted conference in 2006. Pretty similar technology as it appears, though it has some differences . .
Some interesting fact about multitouch are - the research began since 1982 at University of Toronto and Bell Labs. The product idea for Microsoft surface was first conceived in 2001 by Steven Bathiche and Andy Wilson at Microft, the product idea presented to Gates in 2003, surface unveiled to industry in May 2007 by Steve Ballmer at 'Wall Street Journals' 'D" All things digital conference and the first surface deployed to AT&T in April 17th 2008...
Deskrama
This is a research technology by Digitarama.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJSYJU2TdZk
Forer Effect
Amazing as grad life can be, a integral part is watchin online series like Friends (too old now), Lost, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Life on Mars, The Family guy (though i still have to watch the last two) . . . and then movies..
I recently was taking to friend of mine who stayed in the same colony back home as mine.....and we did had a good interaction before comming to US...but eventually as dumb ass as i can be, I hardly called him...he surprisingly called up during the spring break one day and we spoke as if we had just left for US yesterday...
Now hes a very organized and orderly person (unlike me), so I thought that he must be busy doin exams and other x-curricular academic activities (which he actually is doin)...but then he lamented about the time he wastes some times a week watching all those above serials....when i told him, I too-like other normal grad beings watch these....n he was relieved to hear that, as if a supereme court judge pardoned him off a crime after being accused by all the base courts had accused him of murder!!
Comming back to my purpose of this post, the recent one I am watchin is the Big Bang Theory . . and as hilarious it can be with prodigies like Sheldon and Leonard quibbling over 'banal and trite situations' using erudite vocabluary, they do shell out many thoroughly researched (thanks to the Dr David Saltzberg a UCLA physics and astronomy professor who actually checks the scripts for veracity and producers Lorre/Prady) topics and concepts.
One such concept struct me intriguing was the 'Forer effect'. Now it almost made me stop the episode and google 'forer effect'. I was surprised to see my fundamentals shocked.........
Now the Forer effect goes like this:
The Forer effect (also called personal validation fallacy or the Barnum effect after P. T. Barnum's observation that 'we've got something for everyone') is the observation that individuals will give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. The Forer effect can provide a partial explanation for the widespread acceptance of some pseudosciences such as astrology and fortune telling, as well as many types of personality tests.
I am a strong follower of astrology and the signs descriptions...(almost addicted to check them every day and hate fr doin that...) but then its a good way to remember birthdays too...which many people do aggree. . .
But the Forer effect has been statistically proved correct (statistically significant) even when the experiment has been repeated 100's of times but the result has alwayz been the same.....putting a big realization on me about the complacency we seek through astrology and daily forcasts....
GOSH!!!!!
I recently was taking to friend of mine who stayed in the same colony back home as mine.....and we did had a good interaction before comming to US...but eventually as dumb ass as i can be, I hardly called him...he surprisingly called up during the spring break one day and we spoke as if we had just left for US yesterday...
Now hes a very organized and orderly person (unlike me), so I thought that he must be busy doin exams and other x-curricular academic activities (which he actually is doin)...but then he lamented about the time he wastes some times a week watching all those above serials....when i told him, I too-like other normal grad beings watch these....n he was relieved to hear that, as if a supereme court judge pardoned him off a crime after being accused by all the base courts had accused him of murder!!
Comming back to my purpose of this post, the recent one I am watchin is the Big Bang Theory . . and as hilarious it can be with prodigies like Sheldon and Leonard quibbling over 'banal and trite situations' using erudite vocabluary, they do shell out many thoroughly researched (thanks to the Dr David Saltzberg a UCLA physics and astronomy professor who actually checks the scripts for veracity and producers Lorre/Prady) topics and concepts.
One such concept struct me intriguing was the 'Forer effect'. Now it almost made me stop the episode and google 'forer effect'. I was surprised to see my fundamentals shocked.........
Now the Forer effect goes like this:
The Forer effect (also called personal validation fallacy or the Barnum effect after P. T. Barnum's observation that 'we've got something for everyone') is the observation that individuals will give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. The Forer effect can provide a partial explanation for the widespread acceptance of some pseudosciences such as astrology and fortune telling, as well as many types of personality tests.
I am a strong follower of astrology and the signs descriptions...(almost addicted to check them every day and hate fr doin that...) but then its a good way to remember birthdays too...which many people do aggree. . .
But the Forer effect has been statistically proved correct (statistically significant) even when the experiment has been repeated 100's of times but the result has alwayz been the same.....putting a big realization on me about the complacency we seek through astrology and daily forcasts....
GOSH!!!!!
Let Go
by Fion Lim
Letting go is one of the hardest lessons in life,
Yet over changing seasons and passing time,
You will have to learn to let go of certain
People, relationships, situations and things,
That fall way beyond your control.
Tenacity and the attitude of not giving up,
Work wonders on many occasions but not all,
As some things just are not meant to be,
No matter how hard you fight and cling to them,
And forcing your will upon things just repel them further.
There will always be people,
Who will turn out in ways you never expected,
And it dawns on you that you have to let them go,
So that they can fulfill their destinies,
While you go on to fulfill your own life path.
As life likes to dish out surprises and challenges,
Sometimes it is only through letting go,
When your heart cries in anguish,
That in the agonizing process that you realize,
What is truly worth holding onto.
Letting go does not signify weakness,
As it might take more courage to let go than holding on,
Like the big, inflexible tree that snaps in the storm,
While tiny blades of grasses yield and live on,
Revealing the strength of letting go.
Copyright © 2006 Fion Lim. All rights reserved.
I first signed in fr this blogspot space in Aug 2007... after i landed in the land of opportunities named USA at Penn State School of Architecture . . after 4 years of work..filled with hope, progress, determination, purpose, fun and friends . . little did i realize the web i will be tied in to after i land here..
I spend many a good times at this place and its almost near 2 years now... found many friends..lost heart to a few...became friends with many...
n now standing at the crossroads of life near graduation, i think of how much did i actually gain in terms of opportunities, love, progress, education, vision and dreams... i read an interesting post by Bikram Snehi about conversation with Bombay...and in a way, it provoked me to start using this space which i first rendered fruitless like many other startups (not company's) . . to actually use this and start geting to kno myself better thru this . . .
so heres a nice poem by Fion Lim . . i dont kno why i chose this poem, but i realize one thing after many a years spent . . that sometimes we fall in love with a place, a person, a thing, a dream or anything in general, thinking that this is gonna get us ahead when only at the end we see back and figure out that the time has moved ahead but not 'we' . . this is when u say 'let go'.
I spend many a good times at this place and its almost near 2 years now... found many friends..lost heart to a few...became friends with many...
n now standing at the crossroads of life near graduation, i think of how much did i actually gain in terms of opportunities, love, progress, education, vision and dreams... i read an interesting post by Bikram Snehi about conversation with Bombay...and in a way, it provoked me to start using this space which i first rendered fruitless like many other startups (not company's) . . to actually use this and start geting to kno myself better thru this . . .
so heres a nice poem by Fion Lim . . i dont kno why i chose this poem, but i realize one thing after many a years spent . . that sometimes we fall in love with a place, a person, a thing, a dream or anything in general, thinking that this is gonna get us ahead when only at the end we see back and figure out that the time has moved ahead but not 'we' . . this is when u say 'let go'.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
M A N O J rocks !!! :P. . . . .
Well, this is my first post and the one of the many many memorable incidents i am posting...
Settings: Outing with friends...jus guyz nite out....
Background: All grad students...some masters and some PHD's...but wen it comes to fun all r kids...notorious ones...
Occassion: Spring break... but who cares, we never need one...
So here how it goes....
We all drank, and were in good spirits, when we thought tht the first bar where we sit is kinda boring...so we go to another bar with blazing rock music and Ted Mcklowsky playing in full enthu....
all fun till now...the scene starts when me and close frind vic...we go n appreciate the drummer...saying 'U f*** rock!' and thats wen the drummer asks us...so wat r u drinking....n we make the mistake of saying - beer and 'carbomb' (its an irish drink i think so http://www.drinknation.com/drink/Irish-Car-Bomb) and then the drummer sayz... 2 fr u on me....
we think hes high too, but bloddy he comes in 10 min with 2 car boms... i already had 4 rum shots, 2 beer pitchers in previous bar and one pitcher and one car bomb in the new one (PHYRST)....so here he comes all generous with 2 car bombs.... n then i lose it all...
the drinks make me hiiiigh...n i become the new manoj....
its a typical story there after....bcoz of some personal reasons and coz i had really behaved mean with another close frnd of mine fr past few months, n i did realize how ass tht was... the alcohol sets the stage n i start to apologize to this guy (luckily after we left pub sanely)...so this all happens in the car while vics is taking care of me....n another dud - another close friend - venks....he starts to go crazy with all BS u cannot even imagine how it can pop up in smbdys mind... n he was the one who christined 'MANOJ" . . . hahaha
i dont know how i will leave these ppl n live without them...vic, sam, venks...all r testimony to MANOJ...
n crazy venks...puts his staus msg... MANOJ rocks followed by vics n sam..... i was famous (fr stupidity) within a morning...all askin ''' whos manoj!!!
hahaha,
so thts fun fr today
Settings: Outing with friends...jus guyz nite out....
Background: All grad students...some masters and some PHD's...but wen it comes to fun all r kids...notorious ones...
Occassion: Spring break... but who cares, we never need one...
So here how it goes....
We all drank, and were in good spirits, when we thought tht the first bar where we sit is kinda boring...so we go to another bar with blazing rock music and Ted Mcklowsky playing in full enthu....
all fun till now...the scene starts when me and close frind vic...we go n appreciate the drummer...saying 'U f*** rock!' and thats wen the drummer asks us...so wat r u drinking....n we make the mistake of saying - beer and 'carbomb' (its an irish drink i think so http://www.drinknation.com/drink/Irish-Car-Bomb) and then the drummer sayz... 2 fr u on me....
we think hes high too, but bloddy he comes in 10 min with 2 car boms... i already had 4 rum shots, 2 beer pitchers in previous bar and one pitcher and one car bomb in the new one (PHYRST)....so here he comes all generous with 2 car bombs.... n then i lose it all...
the drinks make me hiiiigh...n i become the new manoj....
its a typical story there after....bcoz of some personal reasons and coz i had really behaved mean with another close frnd of mine fr past few months, n i did realize how ass tht was... the alcohol sets the stage n i start to apologize to this guy (luckily after we left pub sanely)...so this all happens in the car while vics is taking care of me....n another dud - another close friend - venks....he starts to go crazy with all BS u cannot even imagine how it can pop up in smbdys mind... n he was the one who christined 'MANOJ" . . . hahaha
i dont know how i will leave these ppl n live without them...vic, sam, venks...all r testimony to MANOJ...
n crazy venks...puts his staus msg... MANOJ rocks followed by vics n sam..... i was famous (fr stupidity) within a morning...all askin ''' whos manoj!!!
hahaha,
so thts fun fr today
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