Probe 9: Joint
Friday, August 9, 2013
Friday, August 2, 2013
Response to Renee Cheng's Report on Integrated Practice: Suggestions for an Integrative Education
Cheng's report focuses on how BIM should be incorporated into an architectural education. She emphasizes the importance of teaching the logic behind each tool and command so that students can utilize BIM as a design software.
I agree with Cheng's recommendation that beginning students should be exposed to a "stripped-down" version of BIM before moving on to more complicated 3D modeling capabilities. It would be helpful to introduce first-year architecture students to the concepts behind solid geometry and boolean logic so that they have a better understanding of how and why BIM operates the way it does. The sooner the concepts behind BIM are introduced to sooner, the more students can begin to utilize BIM the way it was intended.
Cheng's report focuses on how BIM should be incorporated into an architectural education. She emphasizes the importance of teaching the logic behind each tool and command so that students can utilize BIM as a design software.
I agree with Cheng's recommendation that beginning students should be exposed to a "stripped-down" version of BIM before moving on to more complicated 3D modeling capabilities. It would be helpful to introduce first-year architecture students to the concepts behind solid geometry and boolean logic so that they have a better understanding of how and why BIM operates the way it does. The sooner the concepts behind BIM are introduced to sooner, the more students can begin to utilize BIM the way it was intended.
Response to Jim Bedrick and Tony Rinella's AIA Report on Integrated Practice: Technology, Process, Improvement, and Cultural Change, and David Jordani's "BIM: A Healthy Disruption to a Fragmented and Broken Process"
Bedrick and Rinella's report on Integrated Practice highlights a key transformation within architectural curricula through the use of BIM software. According to the authors, "We continually hear and read that 'it's not about the technology, it's about the process.' Actually, it's about the results--in this case, the buildings. Neither a technology nor a process is worth the pixels it lights up unless it helps us design and/or build more effectively--to put it bluntly: better, faster, and/or cheaper." (3)
BIM is not intended to replace the design process--rather, it is a tool that has the ability to be utilized throughout the design process in a way that other mediums cannot. If the architectural model has truly shifted from a process-oriented endeavor to a result-driven one, then BIM is uniquely capable of bridging together the earliest design ideas and the completed building.
Bedrick and Rinella's report on Integrated Practice highlights a key transformation within architectural curricula through the use of BIM software. According to the authors, "We continually hear and read that 'it's not about the technology, it's about the process.' Actually, it's about the results--in this case, the buildings. Neither a technology nor a process is worth the pixels it lights up unless it helps us design and/or build more effectively--to put it bluntly: better, faster, and/or cheaper." (3)
BIM is not intended to replace the design process--rather, it is a tool that has the ability to be utilized throughout the design process in a way that other mediums cannot. If the architectural model has truly shifted from a process-oriented endeavor to a result-driven one, then BIM is uniquely capable of bridging together the earliest design ideas and the completed building.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Response to "Change or perish," by Thom Mayne and "University and industry research in support of BIM," by Chuck Eastman
The idea that "Anything that is possible is realizable" is a compelling one for the future of architecture. According to Mayne, BIM is beginning to close the gap between what our brains can imagine on a second to second basis and what we can actually test in the digital world. He calls this rapid-prototyping-model-making, and it enables the designer to cycle through hundreds of design ideas in a way that is not possible or practical with drawings. It also allows for more complicated, intricate designs and truly suggests that architecture is a "living" thing--much like the human body. Systems can be both understood independently through their specific functions as well as interdependently through how they relate to one another. Chuck Eastman notes this in his "University and industry research in support of BIM" when he says, "The parametric building objects encapsulate architectural knowledge and expertise. They are not defined singularly, but as systems, using other objects' rules in their own definition." Understanding these relationships early on in the design process is important to creating more sustainable, rational architecture.
The idea that "Anything that is possible is realizable" is a compelling one for the future of architecture. According to Mayne, BIM is beginning to close the gap between what our brains can imagine on a second to second basis and what we can actually test in the digital world. He calls this rapid-prototyping-model-making, and it enables the designer to cycle through hundreds of design ideas in a way that is not possible or practical with drawings. It also allows for more complicated, intricate designs and truly suggests that architecture is a "living" thing--much like the human body. Systems can be both understood independently through their specific functions as well as interdependently through how they relate to one another. Chuck Eastman notes this in his "University and industry research in support of BIM" when he says, "The parametric building objects encapsulate architectural knowledge and expertise. They are not defined singularly, but as systems, using other objects' rules in their own definition." Understanding these relationships early on in the design process is important to creating more sustainable, rational architecture.
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