Organic forms and what we make of it

How do we model something this is extremly above our level? How do you accomplishment what you dream about or what will make you the best. First of all do you enjoy what your doing and secondly, do you really care about and look forward to gaining new knowledge that will make you. Dont do it to impress others you will not make it. You need to believe in yourself and push forward and you need to fail in order to gain valuable lessons.
My first Organic structure was not what I thought and I hit the cross roads and needed ot be honest with me and my boss. From then I understood after how to model and render it.

Shangri-la is Flying

Picture taken by mark belcastro. Construction fly forming at Shangri-La Hotel in Toronto.

Using fly forming is a quick and efficient way to cast in place concrete floors without using post tensioning procedures and hollow core concrete slab plates. A complicated procedure using slip forms and concrete has a schedule in place for optimized scheduling. Your gant charts will be full. At this stage core drilling holes will be taking effect for Mechanical, electrical and plumbing. Xrays for steel rebar will be a tricky one. At Adamson I had 200 core drilling holes to be approved and using the BIM model was key for SI approvals to contractor. Make sure you cross your t's and dot your i's or else you will have swiss cheese.

Oakville Hospital

With the Town Council meetings and the RFP there are busy designers staying up late and coming up with a plan for the Oakville Hospital. I guess it is time to see what these 3 companies can offer the citizens of oakville. Time to get out your rendering computers and time to press a lot of buttons on the keyboard. Remember that the most efficient 3D modelers with benefit from this P3 project with saving time and money. A government project is a tricky one especially one in oakville. The citizens will be paying for this hospital in taxes so it is best to win the vote of the inside committee. How many Volunteers at Oakville hospital? Enough that take public transportation.
Keep up on your rendering techniques and let the judges decide who will take on this beast.

The building code render

It is important while modeling to cut sections through your building to show components during design stage's. Try modeling accuratley to avoid more work down the road

F R E S H

It is a fact what goes up must come down. In my 3rd year of Biochemistry at Laurier before I switched into Communications I learned many things including thermodynamics. The chemical structure and bonding of electrons and the orbital ring is what everything is made up from. When the chemistry is being created and withholding it will do 2 things. Dr Kominar and Dr Kretch still teach the same principals. 'LEO THE LION SAYS GER'. Loss of electrons is a oxidation. Gain of electrons is a reduction. What happens when a metal interacts with another metal? What the chemcial equation for this? What is the chemical equation for a great team?
The speed of light as it hits the double glazed argon filled unit and refracts is another.

The Swimming Pool SocietyTeam

Some much as happened and all so good. I had to explain a stepping stone jump or lilly pad hop advancement in my Industry. Changing platforms. At first the Project manager was hesitant and scared, I would be. Its the way you say it and the proffesional support and experience you need to have to increase confidence in one's self. They have to feel confident and take a dearing leap. My team leader showed me how this is done and my President as well.
Its 40 degress outside and I said" Imagine standing there sweating hot without water and on the edge of a swimming pool. You touch the water and its really really cold. You know how much of a shock it will be jumping in and you say HELL NO!, and wait and wait until you make that first big leap. The water will feel cold and you will not like it but it will warm up and you will then enjoy your refreshing swim". My project manager smiled after and othrs around that listened to me did too.
I have made my leap, have you?
Mark B

Rendering

How far have we come in rendering this decade? Extremly far especially with plug-ins like 'Podium' for sketch-up and plug ins for 3D Max which is the elite rendering software with maya for complex modeling. The trick is to start modeling in revit then export to 3dmax for high resolution renders. When you use free sketch-up and model the doors and wondows will not import and you will have to model them in 3dmax. Thats the disadvantage with sketch-up. Great to to start DD but bad when not switching over. Try getting your team to start modeling in Revit then xport to sketch up if 3D Max is to complicated.
The following is a 15 minute render using revit then exporting to 3dmax. A 1 hour render with this scene is 10 times better. Just imagine a 3 hour render set-up