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
- The longest bridge in the world gets the go ahead. 38km between Hong Kong and Macau http://bit.ly/5CXExN 2009-12-17
- architectureguardian.co.uk - Reviews the decade for the world of architecture: http://bit.ly/7xOaUM 2009-12-08
- RT @ArupGroup: Arup is at COP15. And blogging. Join in at http://bit.ly/552Caa. #ArupCOP15 2009-12-07
- RT @inengineering: WSP Lincolne Scott, Brookfield Multiplex and ARUP, win national Australian Engineering Excelle.. http://bit.ly/92L28G 2009-12-07
- More updates...
What we're reading
- Taxman in dogged pursuit; Google tax avoidance
- Smart data meters pose privacy threat
- Sydney: grid networks for gridless cities [Human Transit]
- New media and transit complaints [Human Transit]
- James Hansen: Looking for real solutions after Copenhagen [The Monthly]
- Safety experts urge cyclists to sit up and take notice [SMH]
- US housing expert has some home truths [SMH]