rvb Scripting

On the right is a script I wrote to scale down a curve to fit in certain area. The original is CurveToFitLength in Rhino scripting tutorial.

Knowing both INPUTs
Rhino.CurveLength (strObject)
Rhino.CurveArea (strObject)

were available in Scripting Method, I thought it would be easy to write the same script but Area-based scaling instead of Length-based scaling. But I just realized Scripting Method also requires me to refer OUTPUTs. Unfortunately, CurveLength has dbl OUTPUT while CurveArea has arr OUTPUT. Checkout the difference in above jpg.

Scripting、学校では教えてくれないですが使えると仕事に有利かと思い独学中。Sky が手伝ってくれて本当に助かります。私みたいな初心者が何人寄っても何も出てこないのは明白だし、クラスがあったとしても自分のペースでできない上に無駄に課題が多いと厄介です。自分で書いてみて行き詰まったら彼に聞いています。

Studio NOA

杉並の家
/StudioNOA


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.

建ちましたよ～！去年の夏にお手伝いしていた StudioNOA の杉並の家が完成しました :)　StudioNOA では二人で回しているとは信じられないくらいの件数が同時進行されていて、その上あの雑誌を見ました、とか○○町の○○邸を見て、など次々にクライアントから電話がかかってきて大忙しでした。建築事務所では同時進行といっても建設現場を８つも9つも掛け持つわけではなく、何件かはデザイン、もう何件かはクライアントとの話し合い、何件かは市の許可を申請中。そしてもう何件かは着工。という具合に進めていきます。その色々な段階がある中で、杉並の家は私がいた頃にデザインが始まり、着工を除いたほとんどの段階でチラチラと覗かせてもらい、おまけにコンペに応募するところまでやらせてもらったので完成の写真を心待ちにしていました。

家が一軒建つのは感動です。結晶です。小学生の頃手先が器用なので友達から折り紙の注文をとっていました。他にも中学でバレーボールを始めるまでは、シャドーボックス、キルト、フェルト、ペーパークラフト、切り絵、刺繍、ちりめん、押し花、焼き菓子、ビーズ、版画、水彩画、などなど手を出しましたがいつも完成した作品を持て余してしまいました。作るのが楽しいのです。建築はクライアントの物を作れるわけです。楽しみです。

San Francisco

San Francisco Federal Building/ Morphosis















De Young museum/ Herzog & de Meuron

















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.

Geometry Freak

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.

Graduate Thesis

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).








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