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Originally posted by ro_G
nowt special to be honest
Not the underneath bit, but the fact alone, that the overhead bit can become a real public area, instead of just being a flat roof area.
I don’t know why UCD campus hasn’t adopted more semi-subterranean links to unify buildings together, while still allowing more people to walk around ontop.
Michael Warren eh? I lilke the one iln Kilmainham and a couple he did in South America, but I must look out for the new position of that one.
AOE would be axonometric I think in architecture speak. I think, but that might have advanced with most recent editions. Whereas the total war formula is based upon landscape models the likes of which you might normally see in a Flight simulator game.
The little people are only 2D card board cut outs, and perform very limited repetitive 5 frame sequence actions like throw spears or riding horses etc. But there is so many of them on the screen at once, that things have to be made pretty simple.
Aside from that, each type of unit or brigade behaves a little differently, some get scared and run off quicker etc. There was a series on the BBC where they televised people re-enacting great battles – was great fun.
The LOTR battles for middle earth were created using a similar idea. The problem that they found using AI warriors in LOTRs was, that if the soldier or ORK couldn’t find an opponent in the melee, he simply would just run off into the landscape and never return. But you don’t notice it in the film.
Here are lots more images.
http://mysite.freeserve.com/lordkrazy/
http://www.totalwar.com/community/vikingsp1.htm
http://www.totalwar.org/mongol/screenshots.shtmlA couple of more ones I happen to love;
http://www.totalwar.org/mongol/images/screenshots/shogun_screen003.jpg
http://www.totalwar.org/mongol/images/screenshots/shogun_screen002.jpg
http://www.totalwar.org/mongol/images/screenshots/shogun_screen001.jpg
http://www.totalwar.org/mongol/images/screenshots/pczone_001.jpg
http://www.totalwar.org/mongol/images/screenshots/pczone_003.jpg
http://www.totalwar.org/mongol/images/screenshots/pczone_002.jpg
http://www.totalwar.org/mongol/images/screenshots/010116-fl-b2.jpg
http://www.totalwar.org/mongol/images/screenshots/010116-fl-b4.jpg
http://www.totalwar.org/mongol/images/screenshots/010116-fl-b7.jpg
http://www.totalwar.org/mongol/images/screenshots/Seaside.jpg
http://www.totalwar.com/community/vikingsp4.htm
http://www.totalwar.com/community/vikingsp5.htm
http://www.totalwar.com/community/vikingsp6.htm
http://www.totalwar.com/community/vikingsp8.htm
http://www.totalwar.com/community/vikingsp1.htm
http://www.totalwar.com/community/vikingsp2.htm
http://www.totalwar.org/screenshots.shtml
http://www.totalwar.org/screenshots_2.shtmllots more.
http://www.totalwar.com/community/bat4.htm
http://www.totalwar.com/community/bat7.htm
http://www.totalwar.com/community/bat8.htmA whole load of Rome ones here;
http://www.totalwar.com/community/rp4.htm
Couple of medieval ones here.
http://www.totalwar.org/medieval/screenshots.shtml
More Shogun
http://www.totalwar.com/community/shogal/epkedit4.htm
Battle scenes from Shogun.
I will just link a couple of good images here;
http://www.totalwar.com/community/shogal/epkedit5.htm
Sort of the inspiration for something I am doing at the moment.
what i am just trying to get to, is what did places like Terenure and Glasnevin look like, when some of the Georgian terraces were originally conceived, but man’s major means of transport was a personally or borrowed old nag?
Something similar to the urban cowboys today? 🙂
http://www.totalwar.com/community/bat8.htm
There is a project in Fluid Spaces publication for a horse centre in Tallaght actually.
can’t resist linking this, for the shere attempt at creating an old city.
http://www.totalwar.com/community/rp12.htm
Possibly covered in rubbish modern development now.
Who called these lot for their dinner? 🙂
I like this image too for some reason. Dunno, this Total War stuff is beginning to do something for me. 🙂
Sort of a clash of very modern and old going on here. Any opinions?
http://www.cgarchitect.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=000456
Can be a hard thing to do with a visual – to suggest something new and old together. I think the artist made a good stab at it.
Post a link I will have a look.
BTW, on my line of thought in relation to wide open spaces, public space and generally things like convention centres, I think this thread here at CGA, goes some distance to showing up my point again – that notion of how people exist within a much wider exterior open spatial environment with nature and building coming together somewhat.
Examples of architects who have dealt with it, Alto in Finland, or even Jefferson in USA.
http://www.cgarchitect.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=next_topic;f=4;t=000123;go=newer
Another nice image here, I thought you may like.
http://www.cgarchitect.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=000460
dunno. 🙂
A couple of the American newspapers allow you to visit the article once, and then you come up against a notice saying you have to subscribe. Which is a great idea I think, since you can still access any new articles once, and copy/paste or something, if you don’t want to pay.
It would work economically from the newspapers point of view, since it dramatically cuts down the broadband bandwidth bills they would have to pay from people continually accessing articles, but at the same time allow customers to read/browse an article at least once.
Ever think we will see developments like this one in Australia, going up in our leafy suburbs guys. Some examples by design strategies, urban projects etc. But they are still rather thin on the ground me thinks.
Not a bad idea for a thread actually, just thought I would include this link about Dutch Suburban architecture.
http://www.planetizen.com/news/item.php?id=11868
You have to register at NYT.
Well I am a big fan of Trinity in general, and how it fits in with the city really well in parts, or not so well in others. I think O’Donnell and Tuomey have some master plan up around the Beckett.
What I would be interested in inexperiencing though, is the underground walking link between the Berkley and the new building. You can normally only look down through the sky lights and see the people underneath moving about.
Before anyone really makes a full judgement on this building though, it is essential to see it from the cricket pavilion and that general direction at nightime – as it really does form a definite edge or boundary to what was once a less defined edge to the cricket grounds.
Anyone remember that old lump of timber sculpture that used to be there? Ahhhh, the days…. 🙂
Naw, my best guess is that the guys in the AAI are still grappling with information technology, as we all still are to some degree or another. I just am glad of the service the AAI now provide online. Thumbs up guys.
I remember my old professors in Bolton Street kicking my arse over things like MDRDV, FOA, Florien Biegel and what not. The older I become and more of architecture I try to look at and understand, the more some of those old ideas – incomprehensible to me back then – are actually cropping up again and again and again.
So have faith all you young people out there. Of course, this kind of way of looking at the world, will never be everyone’s cup of tea – I obsess over trying to explain things – some people are happier without long explanations.
Judging from some of the articles I have read, people I have spoken to etc, the IT infrastructure behind running a place like Las Vegas is pretty phenomenal.
The IT guys there size the system required around the job it is doing, and not the other way around. Normally you have people who just order something from the Dell catalogue and then try to make it fit.
It doesn’t work that way with a Conference centre etc. Even the power supply requirements of such a venue on its own would be huge, to actually host all those systems and machines buzzing away for all the awe-struck visitors to drool all over.
We aren’t too bad in Ireland as regards power though. But things like good Wi-Fi connectivity and plenty of power points for people to re-charge devices, that is all part of this global tech-show band wagon nowadays. Because you practically are having the tech show reported live through various web sites all over the galaxy, as it happens so to speak! 🙂
In Las Vegas, this is all par for the course and you have all the guys you need to make this happen. That is the hardest part here in this country – hiring the expertise. My best guess, is that you are talking about hiring in short term contractors from London at the nearest to provide that necessary connectivity to make things like this actually happen at all.
yeah, when you consider the airport, the hotels, the catering etc, etc. It would certainly one hell of a techie ploughing match! 🙂
This looks to be the future possibilities of computational power, moving down onto desktop systems:
While ‘image processing’ is historically a classic example of a 32-bit operation and ideal when optimized for the AltiVec unit, 64-bit code is commonly associated with ‘computational fluid dynamics’ (CFD) which includes weather modeling, airflow studies as applied to aircraft design, fluids and particles in motion as with high energy plasmas, nuclear reactions, and hydraulics.
That is just a quote from a NASA project to assess the possibilities of using Apple G5 systems for that kind of task load.
In our situation, with architecture the particles are the people moving around the building itself. They are already using that kind of technology to render the photorealism you see in the Shay Cleary render of a tall building. But I think the uses for technology could be a lot more for architects too. Given time, i.e. not my generation. 🙂
2000-5000 people eh?
Bearing in mind that 90% of this kind of trade in the states is being done at Las Vegas. What better excuse to sample Las Vegas, than go to some business conference. Ahemm!
🙂
But the whole backup system keeping Las Vegas going, well, well, well. . .
2000-5000 people, I will have to play around with my Land scraper Wal Mart templates in CAD to see what kind of sense that makes, in terms of areas.
Listoonvarna in Dublin, Ploughing match in Dublin, I remember going to the ‘Spring Show’ in Dublin years ago. Those kinds of events went out for a generation or so, but if you go back a bit, they were absolutely huge, long before anything like a conference centre was ever invented.
I am really aware of the importance of these big shows nowadays from taking an active interest in the IT world. These events are huge in that sphere. There is one coming up soon in Dublin at Croke Park called NITES:
http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/ebusiness/news-events-details.asp?eventid=3
Description of Event
N.I.T.E.S is the National IT and e-Security Summit organised by The Sunday Business Post. Now in its third year, the 2004 forum has a line-up of national and international speakers sure to keep you up-to-date on all emerging issues and trends. The summit runs workshops and has presentations by experts who will share their knowledge and experiences on topics such as: privacy, building trust, fraud and digital evidence, SPAM, network security management and more.I remember when that famous painting by Caravaggio was found, there was quite a large seminar in Dublin which I attended a long time ago. It was very well attended and that really large room in the National Gallery really did get used for once. Now that the whole centre of gravity has shifted over to Nassau street, the importance of that great room has been very much diminished I think, in one’s overall experience of the NGI.
But to take up your point, I guess that Merrion Square is a very fitting arrival point for such a seminar – which City West would find difficult to match. In fact, what really good public spaces are there in Dublin now that could work like that. College Green does the same thing for Trinity. There really is a sense of arrival when you attend something at Trinity, before you ever even get there.
I still think that digital design applications used nowadays are still far too obsessed with things like steel beams, concrete slabs and so on. Yeah, those are certainly the nuts n’ bolts of any good design, and so forth. But I also think the nuts and bolts of any good design, are the dynamics of the people using it.
How does that get represented in current computer design systems? Is that a stupid question?
Basically, while a lot of computer software out there claims to be very suitable for architects because it draws/models doors and windows instead of lines and arcs – I believe that software will only be really useful for architects when it finally becomes to model or draw the kinds of things which architects think in terms of – that is numbers of people who are going to use the eventual structure and get around the institution.
If it is possible to control armies of these little guys running around the screne, then why can’t that notion be applied to architectural design software? Stupid idea, stupid question – but I think now that computers are reaching maturity, it is time for some refreshing and new ideas. Because people seem to have written them off basically at this stage, and people seem to feel a heck of a lot more comfortable now that ‘computers have failed’ to help the way that architects design anything.
Oh well, it just means a few less billion for AutoDesk I guess! 🙂
