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
- We are mapping people's cone of vision in 3D http://t.co/5zCUTQvh
- Huge datasets on projects? Submerge is our new 3D analysis visualisation environment http://t.co/G3ZfFUnU #BIM
- RT @ArupThoughts: Philip Dilley, @ArupGroup Chairman, reflects on the positive impacts #engineers + #designers have had in 2011 http://t ...
- Arup wins national sustainability award for improving office energy efficiency. Our Realtime tool plays a starring role http://t.co/Nuuu3UPt
- Great buildings should be beautiful, inspiring and draw people to create a great city - at Zunz #Arup
What we're reading
- LDF 2011: Textile Field by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec [Design Milk]
- Number of Female Cyclists Lags in New York, With Safety as a Concern [NYTimes.com]
- A net-zero-impact urban farm system called Polydome [Change Observer: Design Observer]
- At a Co-op Fabrication Shop, L.A. Makers Build Furniture and ...
- China may grow old before it grows rich [guardian.co.uk]
- Canadian traffic in psychological gridlock [THE GLOBE AND MAIL]
- Tracking Your Wi-Fi Trail at the Airport - [NYTimes.com]