ARCH1101 Design Studio 1

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Lumion through myAccess

Hi All,

I've just tested Lumion using UNSW myAccess ... which is essentially Lumion running on the cloud that you can run remotely using a Mac or PC.

It's quite a bit slower to react than if you were running Lumion on your local machine ... but I was able to import the UNSW model and my test "cross/circulation" model, add some trees and people all fine.

Follow this link to try it out (you may have to download the Citrix receiver).

Kind regards

Russell

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Instagram SustainableTall

Hi All,

Our Architecture program director, Dr Phil Oldfield, liked what he saw on the course blog yesterday and posted it to his Instagram feed @sustainabletall. Recent posts include UNSW student award winners and protecting historic huts with kevlar and foil wrap; take a look.

Instagram and your blogs are a great way to publicise your work and build your professional reputation.

Kind regards

Russell

Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Great Work from EXP1: Datum

Hi All,

Overall, the quality of submissions for EXP1 was really impressive, especially given the circumstances. As is always the case, a few projects really stood out, see a selection of the best work from EXP1: Datum below.

Regards

Russell

From Andrew Wallace's tutorial group:

Jaemin Park: https://jaemindesignstudioarch1101.blogspot.com/

and

Jeannie Chan: https://archstudjeannie.blogspot.com/

From Ben Allen's tutorial group:

Haoyuan Wu: https://www.haoyuanwu.com/

and

Sabrina Lee: https://vbnhgj.blogspot.com/

From Brad Inwood's tutorial group:

Renee Cheang: https://reneecheang.blogspot.com/

From Catherine Bakker's tutorial group:

Alan He: https://alanarch1101.blogspot.com/

and

Jatin Midha: https://jmidha.blogspot.com/

From Chris Freeburn's tutorial group:

Ada Mo: https://ada-architecturalstudies.blogspot.com/search/label/ARCH1101

and

David Ramos: https://davidpaulramos-arch1101.blogspot.com/

From Terrence Chau's tutorial group:

Priscilla Zhou: https://priscillazhou1101.blogspot.com/

From Tia Chim's tutorial group:

Monday, March 30, 2020

Two Point Perspectives

Hi All,

In the self-directed tutorial at the end of next week (in the course outline this is referred to as the online tutorial, but now everything is online I've given it a new name to differentiate it ... the key difference being that the self directed tutorial won't have Teams meetings scheduled; Teams meetings are just to support the regular Monday tutorial) you'll have the OPTION to do one of the two animations required in two point perspective.

In the video below I go through the process of drawing a two point perspective. I'm using Illustrator to demonstrate, but you'll be drawing yours by hand in your notebook. The process is exactly the same.

Let me know if you have any questions on the Q&A forum on the ARCH1101 Moodle page.

Regards

Russell

Lumion Student License

Hi All,

Another alternative, if you are having trouble downloading the Lumion files from UNSW, is to buy a student license of the software.

You can do that here: https://cad.com.au/software/lumion-educational/

One advantage over using the UNSW install files is that we have a limit of 200 users at any one time, so if there is a major hand in for several courses at once there might not be enough licenses to go around.

Kind regards

Russell

Sunday, March 29, 2020

Accessing Lumion Files Off Campus

Hi All,

A few of you weren't able to copy the Lumion files while you were on campus a few weeks ago.

Using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a way for your computer to think it's actually on campus and connected to our shared networks. The tutorial below goes through the setup required:

The folder you need access to is: \\coursefolders.fbe.unsw.edu.au\ARCH1101-ArchDes1\Resources\Lumion 10

And remember, if you need to provide a user account to map the coursefolders network drive it will be your zID@ad.unsw.edu.au

Kind regards,

Russell