The Designers 3D CAD Challenge 2001
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The Designers 3D CAD Challenge 2001 |
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The Rules for the 6th Challenge of the Architectural CADD Cup
Preliminary Images Due October 31, 2001
Live Presentations by Teams in World Trade Center Boston Amphitheater November 14, 2001
The Teams
Architects and designers world wide are permitted to challenge.
There will be several Team categories :
Design Firm Teams, Sole Practitioner Teams, Student Teams, Faculty Teams, User group Teams, and Software Developer Teams
Teams of 1 may participate. Individuals outside Massachusetts may wish to ask a local advocate to team with them to present their work.
The Task
The Teams must complete the required drawings and images listed below before Nov.14 (submitting at least 6 images by Oct.31), they then present not only their design in front of an audience but also show us how they did it with their software, by showing selected screencaptured movies.
Any design should be ADA compliant, with stairs, ramps, elevators, and possibly escallators as necessary
Required Drawings and Images :
A. Coordinated Plans, Sections, Elevations
As gif/jpg files ready for Web - These 7 drawings are conceptual and schematic drawings.
B. 12 Perspectives
As gif/jpg files ready for Web. They may be hidden line, greyscale, or color. They should represent typical fast study images for design.
C. The Best Two Renderings They Can Manage (not duplicating any
previous views)
As gif/jpg files ready for Web. They must be in at least 8 bit color, printed out in greyscale or color. They should represent the best rendering their system is capable of within allotted time.
D. Virtual Reality Model for the Web - A Massing Model only, of their
Entire Building
File in vrml/qtvr/3dmf/o2c ready for Web dynmamic visualization. Teams may use 3rd party software if this ability is not directly in their CADD software but must identify their need to do so. We are accepting QuickTimeVR and 3DMF as essentially the same for these purposes. Due to the current technological limitations of VRML, etc. we assume this would be a simplified portion of your model.
E. A 2D Detail Section
As gif/jpg files ready for Web. We will ask that you take a small portion of your building and turn it into a proper 2D construction drawing, with dimensions.
F. An Animation Sequence
Displayed in means of their choice, during their final 10 minute presentation. The length, quality, and size are at the descretion of the team. We will be putting this sequence later (after the event) onto videotape.
G. DXF file and DWG file Versions or Translations of the Project
Since collaboration and compatibility are critical issues - we will check to see how well these programs can transfer information to other designers and engineers. These are handed in immediatly following the charrette
H. Digital Screen Recordings
At least 20 minutes worth of screen captured recordings, to show us How you did various aspects of your design. See the section on Digital Screen Recordings, for more detail on this.
I. A Presentation on the Team's Design
Each Team will present their design solution, presenting the required drawings/images in the order listed above - Perspectives, Plans, Sections, Elevations, 2D Detail, Renderings, VRML/QTVR, Animation, and then show selected digital screen recordings of how they did the design as requested by the jury. They may discus their conceptual parti for the design and show concept sketches during their presentation.
We will provide a standard Web template for each Team to drag and drop their images into while they are working.
Please print out the files at high resolution at your office after the competition and send them to us for publication.
We will collect the gif/jpeg images the day of the challenge, via zips or CD-R.
Deliverables, after the Presentation : (via Zip or CD-R)
1. All the 22 still images listed above as gif or jpeg files ready (or already) for publishing to the Web.
2. The animation and VRML/QTVR files
3. DXF and or DWG file versions or translations of the project
4. Any ScreenCam or QuickTime movie files used in the special Team presentations
Questions and Answers
Questions on the Event and the Project
Questions about the Digital Screen Recordings