WALKING WINDOWS

 

Same walk, same Revit window but different approach.

 On the walk I took a shortcut through the Community Orchard, not to save time, just for the variation. Plums, pears, apples of different varieties. They won't ripen for a couple of months yet I think. Will I get a chance to sample a few straight off the tree?

Watch this space. 🤣🤣🤣

 

After my walk I worked on a Detail Item family to provide a basic parametric setting out for the round Window from yesterday. This is important because it you are seeing it out from scratch and changing the overall size, it's very easy to make a mistake in alignment that compounds itself.

I started by trying to do it all in one family, but quickly got in a bit of a mess. Then I realised there is a repeating geometry that could be treated as a nested family. I think this is workable now. Just one master radius parameter to control the whole array.

I don't intend to make the solid geometry parametric, but if I nest this detail item I as a background, that should give me a solid reference as I scale elements up or down to suit the context. (manual resizing of the family)

Let's see.

 

 

Further progress on the round window at St Leonards, Sherfield on Loddon. I nested the Detail Item from yesterday into a Generic 3d template and proceeded to create sweeps.

It may seem counter-intuitive to use sweeps where extrusions would do, but a sweep is more stable. It doesn't have the tell-tale push-pull arrows which are so useful sometimes, but when nested into a parametric family... Apples can turn pear shaped.

I had to adjust the size and position of the smaller circles slightly. Easily done by changing the divisors that relate everything back to a master radius. Just starting to work on the outer surround. More tomorrow perhaps.

I took my walk very early while it was still cool. Bought some milk at the end and then back home up Jacob's Alley. Next to one of the money laundering /people trafficking businesses that have become so popular on our high streets. My apologies if this one is 100% legit.

I think of them as a modern-day version of the vikings.

 

Towards the end of my morning walk (clock wise for a change) I stopped at one of the new plastic benches and spotted this view down to the main gate of Goldings Park, now "War Memorial". Foreshortening compresses the distances. The glazing in the background is a good 15 minutes walk away. Not sure why the flag of Wokery has to be paraded at the commemoration of the fallen heroes of my father and grandfather's generation.

The world looks subtly different, when walking in the opposite direction. Glancing sunlight and reflected glare on the White Hart as I head down the old road to London. Easy to imagine it as a coaching inn. The blue plaque is from the previous day. Music is such a magical extension of the human experience. Curwen is just one of many who have tried to represent it on paper. For me to make progress as a young teenager I had to develop my own diagrams to represent the chords and scales I wanted to play on the guitar.

Back home, after the obligatory lie-down (I did set off at 6.30 am) I continued with my "Infill" family. Changed the category to Windows, added another extrusion-like sweep for the stepped external surround that completes the limestone framing that will be set in a flint-cobbled wall.

Baby steps.