sw101
Forum Replies Created
- Posts
what an illiterate. surely he means posts to a discussion forum, or entries, or opinions expressed. e-mail? thats so 2002 man.
dont mind advice paul, go kick his editorial ass
what are you talking about? hack it down to a paragraph at a time and ppl might actual read it and reply. i’m too goddam busy to read a 1000 word rant. what are you trying to ask? or are you just telling us what you think and to hell with it?
you start off fine, but then. . . . . .
moving to grangegorman will probably not take place til we see halleys comet again
why should we be so concerned about the function of the urbanist? architects are clever, but are apt to outsource to relevant third parties when specialisation is needed. its like saying we should be able to do engineering. we get what engineering is, but we get an engineer to do it. we can relate to them and their work, but dont spend all our time on sewerage systems. i know about urban form and stuff, but its not my job to obsess about it.
your arguement isnt holding much water. an architect isnt defined as (s)he who knows all and can do all and can be all. an architect is someone who can choreograph great works, with an understanding of where to go to get the right players at the right time.
“why should my brush lie to you, just because my eyes lie to me”
when it comes to it, a building is a series of 2d drawings, legible and decipherable to constructors, who then construct. youze are all fancy pants.
brian, where did you go this year? your theatre was cool
i heard there was to be a pedestrian calatrava bridge in the area to mirror the one up the liffey. any truth in that?
damn architecture, making me so bitter. and i’m o so young
on reflection i’d highly recommend the green building in temple bar as a landmark building. raising awareness and acceptability of sustainable design. tis a bit of a flop what with all its fancy bits broken but it was experimental and temperamental technology at the time.
also, the bookend building by arthur gibney and partners is nice, not entirely to my taste but does make a positive impact in that area of temple bar. may have been 2000 though.
the gate cinema in cork(derek tynan), and also the opera house are worth a mention.
the museum of modern art addition by shay cleary, isoldes tower maybe, the gallery of photography by group 91 and someone i cant think of.
a bunch of building in ucd, ucc, dcu and other colleges around the country. i’d ask the riai and the aai for info and recommendations
tearing down the floozy in da jacuzzi. that was a landmark i’m fond of. might have been early this millenium though. all in all the 90’s was a bit of a disappointment.
depends on the zoning. theres a1 a2 and a3, all designated as agricultural land. would have to check but i think to get planning on a3 i think you or your family must have been farming the land for a certain period. for a2 its if you have lived within 7 miles for at least three years, and a1 has special dispensation and is considered on a case by case basis. i could be wrong and anyone pls feel free tro correct me
p.s
i just paid 150 quid to get the development plan for cork city and environs, there should be something similar to cover any part of the country and should give you an idea of where you can and cant buildwhose assertion?
in my experience it is most benificial to develop a project in sketch, model, 3d viz, and 2d cad, with constast disaassembly and reassessment to fully explore the project.
what qualifications do these visualists have? or are they architects who concentrate their efforts on visualisation? i’m not sure i like the idea of offloading my work to a seperate department to conjure up a model and present it. i’d rather do it myself, with full control and the possibiliy of development while the model is being generated. i would say that an architect owes it to his client to be able to create a fully realised working model of the building before ground is broken on the site. with colleges now offering full training in 3d work, every qualifying architect should have these skills. very quickly, most practices will adopt these standards when it stops being a special skill amongst their staff, and everyone uses it
i think cad was conceived as computer aided drawing rather than design. its not ideal to run off a dozen copies of nearly identical images for scrutiny. surely a cad literate boss who had the capacity to examine designs on computer screens would be saving his business a lot of money, paper, ink etcetera by making full use of his i.t, not just having it for the benefit of his staff, and insisting on old skool techniques like squiggles and unclear notes on printed sheets. anyone work in an office where hardcopy is purely for planning/client/competition purposes?
i have “never” used viz. “i swear it”. “bad” things like (de)”pro”motion happen to people who do bad things. “”..”
my dad cant use a mobile phone. how can i expect an old fart like my boss to comprehend uvw maps, othrographic ucs’, and radiosity meshing parameters. they dont appreciate the effort and co-ordination that goes into producing a full internal and external model. as far as they are concerned you draw 4 elevations and a plan and the damn thing gets built. visualisation will make great headway once people who were trained with it, as a necassary tool rather than a scary thing that younguns use, get into positions whereby they control what happens in a practice.
i’m against people starting a design in cad and finishing in cad. no sketching, no modelling, no visualisation other than 2d representations means that the project has not been tested, explored, or developed properly. when a certain level of competence has been achieved, its possible to design and publish a building using only viz and maybe indesign. obviously not construction drawings but at least competition or client presentations.
i’d still like to build physical models, doodle, tap my toes, and do everything else i can to give the design its due attention
thats pretty cool. i was in a sushi bar in montpellier last year and they had a little river that flowed around the chefs in a big rectangle and the sushi went by bobbing up and down on little boats. aya didnt look so smart after that. damn good sushi though
ooh.sorry for the generalisation.friends of yours?
i dont mean to get all personal or derogatory on this matter. i’m as annoyed as anyone about this. i’ve hd to live in central dublin for years and i’ve gone through the same rubbish. but its primarily a social matter and i’m not sure these developments are well conceived if these problems cant be solved at design stage. i’m involved in a similar projects now of 200 units, on a larger site, and i’m factorring in these issues, i’ve got a 15 to 20% social housing element to deal with. i dont intend to segregate absolutely but i hope to give due consideration to all tenants and owners.
pls understand my comment was only a response to the accusation “that residents from the other blocks have ordered their children to play elsewhere. they were told to go over to Sheriff Street playground. The traffic on the roads is dangerous and our kids are both under five”. this seems a little unreasonable if it is true with regard such young children.
on a minor rant, it occurred to me that a huge disparity in peoples approaches to life in these highdensity developments comes from their personal view of their situation. young singles and couples look on these units as stop offs on the road to success and suburbia to raise their sprogs surrounded by trees and private gardens, not overlooked by anything. but social tenants were brought up in these kinds of communities, where attitudes developed which might not be too kind to property or blessed silence. they’re forced to bring up their kids in this same situation, with little hope of much better, and they can probably envision their grandchildren in the exact same situation. not too much analysis on my part, i wont pretend to understand a mindset i cant associate with , but it may just be a factor, and these contributory factors are what need to be examined if these issues are to be resolved
