introduction art gallery model | website development office-style | comparative cad exercise
 

bbsc303 2002 computer applications

 

project by

emily reich

 

This course explores the Craft of the Digital in Architecture and Building. It uses the internet to document and assist the process of two people collaborating in the construction of a 3D model of a significant recent daylit Art Gallery.

It explores the role of global illumination (photon mapping) in the development of a design understanding of the interplay of light and shade under daylight as well as electric light.

It uses the Art Gallery/Museum, "the modern day cathedral" (Mario Botta in the San Francisco Chronicle 1994) as a vehicle to develop this understanding.

 

 

The course consists of three projects:

the cad exercise which familiarises us with the cad and rendering programs
assignment one where we build and render the art gallery model, investigating one aspect of lighting in detail
assignment two where we record the development of the first two projects through a website, as would theoretically occur in an architectural office
   
  The course is run by Michael Donn at the Victoria University School of Architecture