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Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Posted by Pan So 30 August 2013 10 comments
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is frequently used nowadays to transform building designs from 2D paper into 3D in a digital form. BIM is not just about geometry, it is also used to show the spatial relationships, analyse the light orientation, properties of building components,...

Autodesk 123D

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I came across this new software Autodesk which was not released long ago, only few months back. This software is divided in three applications: Catch, Design and Make. The Catch app allows you to insert multiple angle pictures of an object and the fotware will turn these pictures...

LiTraCon (Light Transmitting Concrete)

Posted by Pan So 22 August 2013 0 comments
One of my favorite materials that I would like to use in one of my future designs is the LiTraCon, a short name for Light Transmitting Concrete. It has been discovered by the Hungarian Architect, Áron Losonczi in 2001. It presents the phenomenon of light transmitting concrete in...

Green Roofing - Sustainable Construction Strategy

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A subject that really interests me is the Green Roofing. I've seen quite a few pictures searching the internet with gardens and trees on top of the houses and I always wondered how this worked. By that I mean, how is it possible for a roof to hold a garden and not be damaged from...

How to Take a Proper Site Investigation (mainly for the UK)

Posted by Pan So 15 August 2013 0 comments
Before I started my course at university I had a very wrong Idea of what a site investigation is. I thought it was just going at the site and taking pictures to see how big it is and write it in the report. Well, I couldn't be more wrong about it. There are two parts that make...

How to Present Work for your Portfolio/University Assignment

Posted by Pan So 8 August 2013 0 comments
I just finished my first year of my course of Architectural Technology. I started my course last year from a foundation degree called 'Extended Degree in the Built Environment'. As part of the course we had to design buildings for us to create a portfolio to present in the end of...

Casa Lude, Spain

Posted by Pan So 7 August 2013 0 comments
The way this house stands amazes me! I also found the information for this house while I was on the Architectural Review's website. It is a house that is built on top of an existing house in Spain with a budget of 120,000 Euros.  The first thing that I thought was...

MuCEM, Marseille, France

Posted by Pan So 5 August 2013 0 comments
I was reading the August issue of Architectural Review magazine the other day when I came accross to a spread about a museum that was recently built at Marseille in France. MuCEM has a fascinating cladding that could have easily achieved by using steel, but the architect,...

Welcome to Architectural Technology

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Welcome to my brand new blog about Architectural Technology.  According to the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT), Architectural Technology is the technical side of design - it can be about how things look but mainly it is about how buildings...

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