we have a document due well prelimanry hand in is tomorw on the btech project of the semester : sustainable energy research centre. iam almost there but there are a few things that ineed to tackle and put into writing. the challenge for me is finding information that relates to the design, not always the case because when you design somthing its not always that one finds it from somewhere or can explain it rationally.. so putting everything and compiling it into a document including sketchplans, site analysis, precedents, the works, in such a time frame(even though we did get the brief way in advance) is a problem. especially because designing takes time, and you cant realy start on adocument once you have sufficient research..soo goodluck fellow classmates on tomrws handin..

help

can anyone help me try and find out or find information on how to generate energy passivly???

structues help

if anyone has problems with the calculations of structures 4.. well you are not the only one.. it seems like the span of the building that was given when we calculate the beams and slabe it comes to 1000 which is just imposibble to have a beam of 500 and slab of 500 for a double storey house.. really is rediculous either i did it completly wrong or .. he exaplained it not so well.. please help anyone!!!try figure this thing out.. but iam glad that we do have an exstension for the project the only problem is that it will intafeer with other handins and portfolios.. xoxo

animation on 3d max

my 3d animation for using 3d max for a cell phone kiosk is ready.. i tried my best..any tips on how i can improve it using movie maker will be great.. il have to work hard on my next video for a bigger project in the next week...

crunch time

just realised that we have less than 3 weeks to finish portfolio.. now there is so much to do i dont know which subject is more important to focus on. I think il have to divide my time and dedicate a day for finishing something off. and we still have to fix our previous handins. For computers my first interior on 3d max needs help, alot of help, for dsw i have to get my working drawings up to scratch, for construction i havnt really worked on it and neither have i fixed my previous work. so i think i should get that done this week .. its that time again sleeping 3 hours a day but i have to get it done.. good luck my fellow students

earth day!!

according to building green on saturday last week (may 1) marked the 40th aniversary of Earth Day. ithink it is a mildstone considering this point has been carrying on for so long and we too cooped up in our own worlds to realise this. its older than most of us and we still ignoring the impact and effects it has on the world. as candidates and future architects its important to realise this and incorporate what ever we design or conceptualise need to be sustainable, green, mainly becuase the 'choice' of materials we use or want to use wil affect the evironment.Our current projects are very much related and focused on sustainablity, cooling air, natural ventilation. so i do appreciate this day and i hope people get arround and do little things like saving water, electricity because we will regret it one day, maybe not now maybe next 40 years but its coming, coming veryyyy sooon!! So people have a little read on the article posted on buidinggreen.com, it may inspire you if not make you think alittle. happy belated earth day!

animation on 3ds max

3d max animation is not that difficult..its just the movement of individual objects to move wile creating the moving gets a bit tricky.but for the next project i think it wont take that long. it gets really interesting when one has to actually apply this technique to a real building.