Mobilising a City-Wide Retrofit of Brisbane
Archive for June 2009
Playing the field
Exploration of a temperature field as a method for generative architecture. Playing with an idea proposed in the May/June edition of Architectural Design.
Visual Reports
Late last year, a colleague in Melbourne asked if I knew of a way to animate a Sankey diagram. A Sankey what? thought I
Building Physics at Arup
Overview of building physics and deriving value during the design process.
Meta-tooling
The DesignLink SDK can be used to build tools to solve interoperability problems as well as custom tools to use in the design process
Cut’n'paste Cities
A global call to action and an invitation to urban dwellers to describe through photography the places and things they love about their cities, and those that they could do without.
Introducing Stuart Bull
Where in the world is Stuart Bull, Arup’s Global BIM champion
MassMotion
MassMotion is software that we use to predict human behaviour within virtual built environments
GSA fly-by-wire
One of the most useful tools Juan Maier has recently developed is a strength based optimisation program that links with Arup’s in-house structural analysis software GSA through its API (COM interface).
What we're doing
- Want to see Integrated Design in practice? Have a look inside the big room http://bit.ly/9GMvnp #BIM 1 week ago
- Our latest data vis just went live. Best viewed in IE. http://bit.ly/9knkK0 Shows product demand created by 1200 buildings retrofit project 2010-08-03
- We're sharing the lessons learned from a year of #RevitMEP http://bit.ly/dAjm0N #Revit #BIM 2010-08-02
- Melbourne is open. Meet Russell Jessop, Gerard Healey and Andrew Potts at the Ice House this weekend http://moh.org.au 2010-07-22
- More updates...
What we're reading
- Spit, Glue and Maybe Even Chewing Gum - NYTimes.com
- Artists Make DIY Bike Lane Along Helsinki Thoroughfare - GOOD
- New Cultural District Takes Shape in Hong Kong « The Dirt
- The Suburban General Store | Metropolis Magazine
- ball nogues: cradle installation in santa monica [designboom]
- Looking for a Job on Social Networking Sites - NYTimes.com
- GE Will Try to Reduce Energy Use by 70 Percent in a Few Test Cities - GOOD Blog - GOOD