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
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