DataCAD DBUG Meeting for "February"

at the Boston Society of Architects

Saturday ---- March 2, 2002 ------ 12 noon --- 3:00 pm

Host : Geoffrey Moore Langdon --- glangdon@suffolk.edu -------- Phone 617 - 305 - 1702

Where : 50 Milk St., Boston, MA (5th Floor) ------------------------- Mobile 617 -233 -2511

AGENDA
Free meeting open to all

Saturday March 2

.

11:30 am - 12:15 pm -- Reception, Food, Networking

12:15 pm - 12:35 pm -- Intros, Announcements, Jobs Available

12:35 - 2:30 -- Presentation by the Winning Team of the 2001 Designers 3D CAD Challenge and how they did it in DataCAD

DBUG MEETING

The BSA DBUG Group "February" meeting and the

2001 Designers 3D CAD Challenge

Special presentation of the winning design for

the Designers 3D CAD Challenge

by Jonathan Foster, AIA, of New York

This was a special year of firsts and exceptions for this annual 3D CADD competition. The "Shootout" moniker was dropped in favor of the term "Challenge", the Teams of designers did their design work at their home offices instead of live in front of the audience, recording their process with digital screen recordings, they had many weeks instead of only 3 hours, and, post Sept 11, the challenge transformed into a non-profit public service with the new design challenge of helping to determine what should be done with the former World Trade Center site.

Amid a huge outporing of emotion as well as volunteers (architects as well as non-designers) offering their help and design suggestions for the site (which still continue to come in every week, with the vast majority calling on architects to provide some kind of building), the work of Jonathan Foster and Jensen Vasil of New York stands out as inspirational and appropriate. At many levels, ranging from the photovoltaic facade that turns the whole project into an energy resource for the whole community, to the fine touches of the bridge over the memorial lake, to the well designed connections that pull together the neighborhoods on all four sides, to the dramatic form of the central buildings, their well thought out design truly does bring a sense of new hope to us all.

At this special presentation, not only will Jonathan and Jensen show us an in depth look at their designs, but also show us how they did it, and why their use of DataCAD was instrumental in enabling them to do it so quickly and comprehensively. They will show us numerous very colorful perspectives, walk through animations, virtual reality models, and even their digital movies that describe their design process and how they did it with DataCAD.

The presentation is free, and refreshments will be served.

DataCAD DBUG Feb 2002 Meeting Website - http://www.architecturalcadd.com/seminars/dbug0202.htm

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AGENDA	Free meeting open to all
Saturday March 2	.
11:30 am - 12:15 pm -- Reception, Food, Networking 12:15 pm - 12:35 pm -- Intros, Announcements, Jobs Available 12:35 - 2:30 -- Presentation by the Winning Team of the 2001 Designers 3D CAD Challenge and how they did it in DataCAD
DBUG MEETING
The BSA DBUG Group "February" meeting and the 2001 Designers 3D CAD Challenge Special presentation of the winning design for the Designers 3D CAD Challenge by Jonathan Foster, AIA, of New York This was a special year of firsts and exceptions for this annual 3D CADD competition. The "Shootout" moniker was dropped in favor of the term "Challenge", the Teams of designers did their design work at their home offices instead of live in front of the audience, recording their process with digital screen recordings, they had many weeks instead of only 3 hours, and, post Sept 11, the challenge transformed into a non-profit public service with the new design challenge of helping to determine what should be done with the former World Trade Center site. Amid a huge outporing of emotion as well as volunteers (architects as well as non-designers) offering their help and design suggestions for the site (which still continue to come in every week, with the vast majority calling on architects to provide some kind of building), the work of Jonathan Foster and Jensen Vasil of New York stands out as inspirational and appropriate. At many levels, ranging from the photovoltaic facade that turns the whole project into an energy resource for the whole community, to the fine touches of the bridge over the memorial lake, to the well designed connections that pull together the neighborhoods on all four sides, to the dramatic form of the central buildings, their well thought out design truly does bring a sense of new hope to us all.	At this special presentation, not only will Jonathan and Jensen show us an in depth look at their designs, but also show us how they did it, and why their use of DataCAD was instrumental in enabling them to do it so quickly and comprehensively. They will show us numerous very colorful perspectives, walk through animations, virtual reality models, and even their digital movies that describe their design process and how they did it with DataCAD. The presentation is free, and refreshments will be served.