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nice rant. good to have space to rant. dams are bad. dreaming is bad..? dream on!

@ TJ

It is nice to have someone drinking coffee instead of Kool-Aide. Well said and well grounded.

Stef,

In what I have seen with Landscape Architecture and trying to create things in Revit, it is not a very smooth transition. I worked for a firm for three years and the topic of bringing in Revit never even surfaced. It has great rendering capabilities and can do many nice things but as of right now I see it really as only an Architecture &…[Read more]

Our firm has for the most part switched to REVIT. We are primarily an architecture firm, so that is why we did it. It is difficult to have an accurate 3-d site fully graded out, but in plan view the program works great and Construction Documents are easier and faster. Automatic schedules and counts are a real plus. Curbs, parking, and planting are…[Read more]

Stefanie, As all BIM applications are continuing to evolve, the ability to work through open source BIM will likely prevail. As architecture or planning projects form that require BIM, and realizing that there are more than one BIM application out there, the ability to communicate with most or all BIM applications will be the ultimate goal. The…[Read more]

Stefanie,

I work in a firm where we do all our design work in Revit. As far as schematic design Revit works well for conveying your design ideas for both the architectural and landscape architectural design. And, we use it’s 3 d capabilities to give our clients a lot of quick working images of our design. These working images are crude from a…[Read more]

Very well written Tom.

Thank you, I appreciate the feedback.

I still think it will be some time (at least 1 to 2 years) before Revit becomes even an optional CAD program in most mid to large sized LA offices. If any office wants to integrate well and work in the same BIM environment most architecture firms are now (or on the brink of doing) the astute thing to do would be to start getting training in the…[Read more]

That’s an interesting design competition. Similar to what we did in Urban Design Studio in school… I think our school project was more rooted in reality though. I’m growing increasingly weary of these super abstract entries that appear to be the result of a hallucination that wishes to impose itself on the world, rather than a true, thoughtful…[Read more]

What scale? Dried plant material that resembles the larger product is a good way to make it look natural. For example, I often use dried yarrow to represent deciduous trees. The scale of the model and the plants in question are important to consider.

nice! Love the thistles!

Thanks for sharing this! You may want to post it to the events page, as well…

Thanks again,
Andrew

Its too bad you cant save your money and time and use Sketchup. You will 99% never have to build a model in an office. Good luck~!

A cool thing you could do is find a place that does CNC work and have them cut your boards (based on cad drawings) for contours or buildings.

Here are a couple of school projects. The first one uses dried thistles as trees. For the second one I stripped wire for trees, spread the wires and the insulated section becomes the trunk. I cut foam for hedges and evergreens and spray painted it all black… Please disregard the title block…. Part of making vegetation is having your own style.…[Read more]