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Info on the Building Design - the Main Charrette Problem for the Design Shootout
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for Vignettes C, D, E, F
TheVignette Examples will be thematic interviews while the Team is working on their building design charrette. The spokesman for the Team is free to show us examples within the following themes whatever way they wish, though live demonstration or ScreenCams are preferred.
A. Large Multi-Office Projects - 4 minutes (live or avi/scn)
- sample major project emphasizing multi-discipline collaboration
- file transferability (to engineers, i.e. DWG, DXF, IFC)
- how many people can be coordinated with this particular CADD - enterprise solution
- Teams using software with small office orientation would tell us this and show sample CD's
- Also displayed on poster boards in the entrance hall to A/E/C SYSTEMS for the whole show
B. Special Features - 3 minutes (live or avi/scn)
- This is a PR opportunity to show off special abilities and unique features of the software
- i.e. links to FM, cost analysis, energy analysis, structural analysis, space planning,
- log wall construction, special drawing viewers, special web formats/links, etc.
C. Architectural Parametrics - Walls, Windows, and Doors - 2 minutes (live)
- This is a comparison of the two major paradymes in our industry - one of which uses smart macros to plunk down lines/3D blocks, and the other which uses inserted architectural components which have intelligent internal intelligence
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D. Symbol Libraries and Smart Symbols - Insert a Given Symbol - 2 minutes (live)
- We will provide you a specific 3D DXF element, and want to see it in your custom library
- Demonstrate what symbols come with your software, how you retrieve, organize, and add to them
- What other abilities do symbols in the software have
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E. Stairs, Ramps, and Elevators - 2 minutes (live)
- How does the software handle stair design, not just in 3D but 2D plans, sections, details
- In 1998 no one showed us any ramps or elevators, even these are required in almost every building. Architects want to see how your software can help them here.
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F. Roof Design - 2 minutes (live)
- Show examples of all the nifty things they can do with roofs
- How are roof intersections and dormers handled
- How are roofs modified
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Changes to the Vignette Interviews from 1998
Our first mission was to greatly shorten the amount of time for any Vignettes (if any) to show the audience more of the actual design process. As you know also, the results will not be announced until the next day - this gives us more time for the presentations (to make you all look good), and, with an overnight to compile and, as Mark says, judiciously go over checklists of required elements in the submissions, allows us to be more comprehensive and fair in the evaluations (which again, make you all look good). Another change, as Brad mentioned, is our "Enterprise Vignette" - which we have renamed as "Vignette Example A - Sample of Large Multi-Office Project" which partially addresses the concerns of Huw and Bentley and the issue that there is much more to architecture than just our little 3 hour building. Another thing you probably all guessed is that our 85,000 sf building last year stretched the high end limit of what our contest should be covering (although we are glad we did it) and that the project for 1999 would obviously be a much smaller building.
There is the strong possibility of a major printer/plotter manufacturer sponsor (which will for the moment remain nameless, but rest assured that all of you already have direct output for) which could give us the possibility of having color plots of your Vignette A (for instance a big RTKL shopping mall complex) on display boards in the entrance hall of A/E/C SYSTEMS for the whole show.
more freedom
With respect to the "Vignette Interview Mini-Problems", we have had a lot of discussions. In addition to having fewer, taking up less time, we felt strongly that the presenters should have much more freedom to show off their software features in whatever way helps them make their point. There is a need to go Team to Team with interviews in a "theme" to help the audience understand the comparative things about the software (which certainly worked better than the "skip us now" and blank screens we ran into in the years before the Vignettes). What we have come up with so far with the vignettes (and that is the way you spell it in the Architectural Dictionary) is not so much of a specific "mini-problem" where we ask for a specific stair or window or roof, but a chance for the Team spokesman to speak (and show) about their software's features in the theme topic - for instance the Roof Design Vignette would allow a presenter to show examples of all the nifty things they can do with roofs. Also, in contrast to Mark's comment that all the demos be live, we think that Lotus ScreenCams are perfect for this application, and Huw's suggestion that all those ScreenCams be then available on the Design Shootout web site is wonderful.
Certainly, a Team could make a strong point if they then also demonstrated a particularly easy and fast feature live on their systems, but, in general, if everyone kept to short ScreenCam type presentations, and then went on to talk about their current design progress - possibly mentioning how (or demonstrating) that particular theme is/was applied - then the audience will get the pattern.
There are some technical issues, obviously, as "ScreenCam" is a Win95 or NT specific solution, but we could entertain other proposals (i.e. QuickTime) just as we did to expand the VRML requirement to include 3DMF, QTVR and so on. We are pretty sure this should be an on the computer thing, as opposed to a talking, videotape, overhead projector, or slideshow type thing.
Thus, because these during-charrette interview presentations are not "mini-problems" but thematic examples and samples where you are free to do whatever PR you can about that area of abilities, we are calling them "Vignette Examples", and have reduced them in number from 8 to six and modified them somewhat. Site 3D contours, Space Planning, and ADA, are now just part of the main building design, and and interoperability becomes part of Vignette A. Above is the proposed order as well. Thus, the audience will see big flashy finished projects in the early Vignettes and know they are samples, while there is still not much on the screen of their building charrette.
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