Flow (SketchUp work)

Ok, so here they are... I used SketchUp Pro6 to help people understand our ideas in the design drawings. I was just going to do around the outside classroom.. but then I felt kinda sad because it was just white around it.. so I started drawing surrounding as well... then ended up to do everything. ha. lol I really like SketchUp... it is just a great tool to make our desing more realistic. (Well, I know physical model is good as well.. I like many different ways to express our ideas.) Anyway.. here are some graphics from SketchUp. Enjoy!











This is the bird-view image.. from south side.
White building is our studio building.













This is the view from BBQ social area towards to outside classroom/pond area.
Pathway is in the swale.. so feel like you are walking on water when it is rainning.











BBQ area/social area could be held party during summer time.
We are proposing glassroom garage door can be replaced to glass door.. so inside and outside will be connected more.











Outside classroom/pond from south-west side..













Outside classroom/pond from south-east side..
hmm I want to hang out there while it is rainning..
hearing rainning, water dripping and flowing into the pond..
That would be beautiful!!

Except it is over over way over budget design.. so it won't be built. lol

Click the link..
it is a video version of it.
Kinda low resolution but oh well.. it still took 2 hours to make a video from Sketchup!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=klZf-pEv5Kg

Endless process

Well.. I have been doing this for one and half day now..
I am still doing it, I know. :-(

SketchUp is kinda pain sometimes.. it is useful though..
I have hard time to fix something once I drew on the plan.

















Anyway.. tomorrow is a field trip day..
Going to Seattle for a day.

Leaving here at 7am, then spend half day there to check some design built parks, then come back by 9-10 pm.

My biggest plan is to go to Coldstone Ice.. hmmm I can't wait.
Oh, what is the purpose? Who knows.. I will take some pictures and upload here..

ugh, it is already 1am! Going to bed now..

LARC503 Design Built Project

Ok, here I am.. long time no see you guys. I know I know.

I have been slacking and lazy about this blog but I am going to restart it again.
This semester has been a bit crazy actually. As usual though, I stay at school longer than I stay at home..

Anyway.. here is what I am working on.
We have just finished 50% construction detail design last Friday (yes, I had only 3-4 hours sleep a couple of days before the due day.) We have a presentation next Monday after this reading break is over (which is like Spring Break).

We are allowed to do some extra work for it, so I am working on 3D modeling... I think not many people are doing it. Oh well.

Here are some pictures.













We (my partner and I) did design on Vectorworks (CAD software, not AutoCAD) first, so it is more accurate than hand drawing. Then I put that .png file on Sketchup (google's 3D model software) to start modeling. It is a plan view.. lovely, eh.














I started from a pond and outside classroom area, because that is what we are excited about for this project. I want to spend more time on it to make it prettier. :-)














Zooming in outside classroom. I know it has a crazy support and crazy beam sticking out..you will see how it goes. We have A PLAN for it. :-) For now, I can only say that.