This page contains the dairy of assignment one plus how our office is organised.

The Bottom of the page contains office procedures

Diary over the term

Week 1

April 2-8th
  • Choose partner, building (Museum fur Kunsthandwerk by Richard Meier) and program to model in (AutoCAD)
  • Spent time ensuring enough information could be found on building.
  • Notify Mike Donn (course co-ordinator)via e-mail of building choice and group.

Week 2+3

April 9-22nd
  • Holidays

Week 4

April 23-29th
  • Decided on parts of building we each wanted to model.
  • Decided on starting point-traced scanned raster image of plan in AutoCAD.
  • Kent changes statring point to grid of angled pathway.
  • Change to hand measurement instead of using raster image.
  • Decided on joining point- big wall that runs N/S through both parts of museum.
  • Started modelling first walls. download model

Week 5

April 30-May 6th
  • Continued modelling separately.
  • Put buildings together using xref in AutoCAD to see how they fitted-make sure there were no overlaps etc. download model

Week 6

May 7-13th
  • Separate modelling.
  • Combining of models-modifying floor heights main joining wall and other irregularities due to measurement inconsistencies.
  • Do AutoCAD renderings for interim hand-in (May 10th). download model

Week 7

May 14-20th
  • Modelling.
  • Tried FTP system unsuccessfully. Reverted to using temp drive. download model

Week 8

May 21-27th
  • Experimentation in lightscape.
  • Tidying up of drawing, addition of finer detail. download model

Week 9

May 28-June 3rd

 

 

Office organisation

Outlined below are the guidelines as to how our office is run this will allow for any person to take over a team members position in the case of an absence with minimal upheaval. It should also set a precedent should we need to collaborate with people not in the same physical location as us. Please Note: In the case below when stating 'the building' I referring to the Museum fur Kunsthanwerk by Richard Meier.

Initial modeling portion Here I will outline how the building was initially divided out to the beginning team members, Kent Thomas and Nigel Butt. The team divided the building into parts with the intention of joining them via a common piece. In this case this is the North/South wall that cuts through the building this is illustrated in the drawing.

File Naming and location For cad; First name the drawing a standard name that will be a part of all updated file saves. Secondly state the number in the order of number/daydate. Thirdly all file titles are to be in small caps only. Nigel and Kent are working on this system with the following standard names.

Nigel - museumnumber_day.dwg

Kent - plannumber_day.dwg

It is important that if you are going to contribute to the model that you inform the other team members of your standard file name so it can be recorded here

Files are at first saved on to your local drive. Secondly files are backed up on to a zip disk at least once a week on a Thursday. These back up files are saved in a folder called museum_backup on the zip disk. There is a maximum of three versions stored on zip disk so endless zip disks are not needed. Also on the Thursday the latest file is saved on the directory that is accessible via the internet. Personal contributions will be available via the web page of the team member.

Further Details

  • All images are to be saved as jpg
  • All drawings are to be saved as dwg

Standards in AutoCAD In order to download the model you will need to know how the basic layer system works. There are slight differences between team members however in general the layers below are followed. Angle_path_grid (the objects on this layer are used to help referencing the parts and make sure thay are all in the right place)

Layer name Colour
angle_path_grid (the objects on this layer are used to help referencing the parts and make sure thay are all in the right place) White
Beams 242
big_window 80
columns 20
curved_windows(rounded window frames) 200
doors 91
fence 240
first_floor 41
glass 11
groundflloor 12
ground 128
construction(not to be imported into render program) 130
handrail 110
ramp 234
raster_image(not to imported into render program) white
roof 21
wall_1(with name suggesting area this layer is used) 82
wall_2 90
wall_3 172
west_court_joining_wall (this is also used for referencing when collaborating)  

Communication

Communication is to be in the form of three mediums

  • Email, these addresses are contained on our web pages
  • Direct meetings (between people in the same place
  • telephone

Team members are to collaborate and join model at least once a week to eusure progress on the model is aligned.

Note: Materials used will be accessable via the assignment 1b page

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We put images down below so we could accsess them without finding the library book