StudioNOA, the office I worked during summer 2006. One of their single family residence that I was involved got built at last. In Japan, as Thomas Daniell from FOBA mentioned in SCI-Arc lecture, city code of setback restriction is maniac. I heard many foreign architects who are not used to the code in Japan feel they can't do anything interesting especially in a city. This house came out great within the restriction.
Field trip to San Francisco to visit SFMoMA and walked around the city for chinese dumplings. And following Tuesday, someone from Morphosis came to BIM class for lecture. The content happened to be the Usage of BIM software in construction of San Francisco Federal Building that I just saw. They even showed us yet-built competition wining scheme and scripting knowledge behind the project.
Those lectures are priceless. Without them we'll end up just a-little-bit-smarter CAD monkeys (draft persons in a office). But some people take advantage of the BIM class in a way that they think they get better at CATIA or REVIT just showing up on class. If someone just wants to learn the usage and concept of those softwares (maybe those who are interested in project management or something), that's fine, but if s/he wants to get better at them on top, class meetings and lectures are different from lab hours.
Here is a random model I made in CATIA using excel spread sheet. Whenever I do this sort of field condition geometry, somebody asks me whether each parameter is linked to each cell of spread sheet. No, I'm not even sure if CATIA allows that. It is that I'm just organized enough to instantiate PowerCopy in order so that I use excel's single column to do the field condition.
Since I started using CATIA, my geometry controlling skill has gotten freakier and freakier. Even making random curve in Illustrator, the results look like as if I did them via scripting. No, seriously I do things manually but I'm still a control freak.
Since the end of summer nothing had really happened. I had been waiting for grad thesis people to graduate so that my studio can take over thesis pit (of my dream).
Roxanne, Dylan were in town. Sky is back from Kyoto. Roommates reunion for a moment before going back to each responsible academic life. Being young, cannot stay in a comfortable spot no matter how I like it. I miss them and Holliston ...but I know at least I get to keep one of them for now.