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SmartPlan Rainwater Model

By Ken Goulding posted on Tue, 2010-10-05 15:08 , 319 reads, 0 comments

Different landscape choices handle water in different ways. Any landscape will release runoff if enough water falls, however greener landscapes and pervious paving options do a much better job of absorbing and containing water before runoff occurs.

Flash SWF File:

SmartPlanStormWater_controller.swf

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New wind turbine design could provide greater efficiency and much smaller footprint

By Ken Goulding posted on Tue, 2010-01-26 10:42 , 1224 reads, 0 comments

http://cleantechnica.com/2010/01/26/wind-turbines-...

A new wind turbine design out of Wilbraham, MA promises to provide more durability, better efficiency and (importantly for planning purposes) much reduced spacing requirements.

Have a look at the video below. In addition to being an impressive piece of engineering, I think the video itself is an excellent example of selling a design concept using 3D computer models.

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Knowledge Cartography

By Stephen Gray posted on Thu, 2009-12-03 23:58 , 319 reads, 0 comments

http://www.knowledgecartography.org/

"The aim of the research is to extend the cartographic metaphor beyond visual analogy, and to expose it as a narrative model and tool to intervene in complex, heterogeneous, dynamic realities, just like those of human geography. The map, in this context, is not only a passive representation of reality but a tool for the production of meaning. The map is thus a communication device: a mature representation artefact, aware of its own language and its own rhetoric, equipped with it its own tools, languages, techniques and supports."

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Google Earth now has detailed facades from Street View (select cities only)

By Ken Goulding posted on Fri, 2009-11-20 16:12 , 344 reads, 1 comment

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/11/buildin...

Google has used imagery from Street View to add high-res facades to buildings in five California cities: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Franciso, Berkeley and Stockton. This kind of facade mapping works best for solid street walls without much articulation. The mapping is not always perfect, but the results are still impressive (and provide a good sense of the quality of the urban fabric).

You can browse these cities in Google Earth or check out the video below:

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Sasaki's Greenbuild presentation by Jason Hellendrung, "How BRT is Enabling the Renaissance of One of America's Grandest Avenues"

By Jason Hellendrung posted on Fri, 2009-11-06 11:35 , 922 reads, 0 comments

Attachments:

BL04 J.HELLENDRUNG_IDEAS POST.pdf

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A Sasaki GreenBuild Presentation: "Regenerative Landscapes in China: Social, Cultural, and Ecological Stewardship in the World's Fastest Urbanizing Society"

By Steve Benz posted on Wed, 2009-11-04 08:04 , 800 reads, 0 comments

Attachments:

PL04 M.Grove_.pdf

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Design Inspirations: The Creative Process

By Steven Wilson posted on Thu, 2009-10-29 11:11 , 1063 reads, 0 comments

The third in the fall Design Dialogue series, this presentation challenges our current design process and conventions. The hour long discussion was led by a panel representing architecture, interiors, urban design, and landscape architecture.read more

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Design Dialouge_Oct_FINAL-with notes.ppt

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Google Building Maker

By Ken Goulding posted on Thu, 2009-10-15 17:17 , 195 reads, 0 comments

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwh/buildingmaker.html

An impressive new web tool from Google lets you map oblique photos to simple geometries. The results are fairly convincing from afar and would make great context buildings for our 3D models - especially when used in Google Earth.

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"Fitting In" - a Sasaki discussion on contextualism

By Steven Wilson posted on Fri, 2009-10-09 16:43 , 3341 reads, 0 comments

This in-house Sasaki discussion/debate looked at contextualism from perspective of the individual architectural intervention (the tree), and the perspective of the district and the city (the forest). Brie Hensold and Caitlyn Clauson led the first discussion on the forces shaping form and context including program, economics, taste and memory.read more

Attachments:

fitting in-part 1.ppt

fitting in_ part 2.ppt

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Finally - Google Street View on a College Campus!

By Ken Goulding posted on Thu, 2009-08-20 14:36 , 575 reads, 3 comments

http://tinyurl.com/nknalz

Google Street View gives us an unprecedented ability to understand what spaces feel like on the ground (while providing the context of a map). Until now, college campuses have appeared as large holes in the Street View data. Over the past few months, Google bikes have been spotted traversing a number of college campus, and just this week, Google finally added their first campus to Street View: San Diego State University (SDSU).

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