In finalising my preparations for the BiLT Europe conference coming up in Denmark shortly, I opened up some of my old projects with Enscape3d active and saved a few screenshots. It's amazing what you can do in just half an hour with almost no editing at all, just selecting viewpoints and sliding the shadow angle around to different times of day.
There are other controls of course and I made some use of the white mode and the black outlines slider. Depth of field has some potential but I couldn't get it to do anything particularly interesting in this case.
The model is le Corbusier's famous chapel at the top of a hill of course. The roof is a hollow ferro-cement shell, inspired by aircraft wing construction techniques. There are blog posts from several years ago that go into these issues in a bit more depth, but I have never really got around to taking this work to a reasonable conclusion.
I do have a plan to follow up my Project Soane website with something more general which features analysis of a wide variety of buildings in the context of the societies that gave birth to them. It will be called "The Way We Build" and it's a project that's been at the back of my mind for at least 20 years. I thought it was going to be a book, but that never happened. A website is easier to start up in a small way and gradually enhance so let's hope I can find the time and energy to do it well.
I am open to collaboration of course. It would be wonderful if students of building /architecture /history, the old and the young, could work together to create an open resource of models and analytical diagrams, available over the internet.
I think this is one of the great missed opportunities of BIM: using the technology for education and research. There are lots of courses ABOUT BIM, but far too little use of BIM to actually DO education and research. Why aren't students and teachers of architecture bowled over by the incredible power of the BIM pencil to reveal how buildings work?
By the way, that last image shows the village church at the bottom of the hill in relation to the chapel of "Our Lady up top" Not the kind of image you normally expect to get from Revit (sadly) but as an architect, and a student of the history of buildings I do like to use my favourite "drawing tool" to convey these kinds of relationship. Ultimately it becomes boring to talk about technique all the time instead of just using BIM software as if it was a pencil, in a natural, uncomplicated way to explore and express ideas.
So this is just a tribute to Enscape3d, and another thankyou to the guys for letting me use it for educational purposes, plus a bit of a teaser for what I am planning to do, moving forward. I have modelled lots of interesting buildings over the past few years: Robey House, bits and pieces of Gaudi, Casa del Fascio, the Gherkin, Lever House, Newari houses of Kathmandu, Temple of Poseidon, Pantheon, Borromini, Soane of course, Hawksmoor churches, Palladio (the last 2 as urban design studies) I will try to generate some more Enscape images from these models and share them here.
Maybe you will get inspired to join my mission.
There are other controls of course and I made some use of the white mode and the black outlines slider. Depth of field has some potential but I couldn't get it to do anything particularly interesting in this case.
The model is le Corbusier's famous chapel at the top of a hill of course. The roof is a hollow ferro-cement shell, inspired by aircraft wing construction techniques. There are blog posts from several years ago that go into these issues in a bit more depth, but I have never really got around to taking this work to a reasonable conclusion.
I do have a plan to follow up my Project Soane website with something more general which features analysis of a wide variety of buildings in the context of the societies that gave birth to them. It will be called "The Way We Build" and it's a project that's been at the back of my mind for at least 20 years. I thought it was going to be a book, but that never happened. A website is easier to start up in a small way and gradually enhance so let's hope I can find the time and energy to do it well.
I am open to collaboration of course. It would be wonderful if students of building /architecture /history, the old and the young, could work together to create an open resource of models and analytical diagrams, available over the internet.
I think this is one of the great missed opportunities of BIM: using the technology for education and research. There are lots of courses ABOUT BIM, but far too little use of BIM to actually DO education and research. Why aren't students and teachers of architecture bowled over by the incredible power of the BIM pencil to reveal how buildings work?
By the way, that last image shows the village church at the bottom of the hill in relation to the chapel of "Our Lady up top" Not the kind of image you normally expect to get from Revit (sadly) but as an architect, and a student of the history of buildings I do like to use my favourite "drawing tool" to convey these kinds of relationship. Ultimately it becomes boring to talk about technique all the time instead of just using BIM software as if it was a pencil, in a natural, uncomplicated way to explore and express ideas.
So this is just a tribute to Enscape3d, and another thankyou to the guys for letting me use it for educational purposes, plus a bit of a teaser for what I am planning to do, moving forward. I have modelled lots of interesting buildings over the past few years: Robey House, bits and pieces of Gaudi, Casa del Fascio, the Gherkin, Lever House, Newari houses of Kathmandu, Temple of Poseidon, Pantheon, Borromini, Soane of course, Hawksmoor churches, Palladio (the last 2 as urban design studies) I will try to generate some more Enscape images from these models and share them here.
Maybe you will get inspired to join my mission.
Andy, another great post. Enscape has become an invaluable tool for everyday use. I found the outlined feature (set to 1% just does the trick) to create a nice edge just enough to get the graphic. Keep them coming. Thanks. Philip
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