Architectural documents

Reproducing architectural documents moving forward slowly, the point is we have a very limited collection of drawings from the project and none of them has been created to give architectural information at first place. there are so many distortions in drawings and some of the illustrated features seems impossible structurally. so we do it based on a trial-error strategy. first we guess then we test it to see how it can fit all of the illustrations that we have.

on some parts, we also need to take a look at the other structures from that era to complete our drawings base on architectural style and structure method.

i think finally we may come up with different alternatives on some parts so we have to choose one of them, or maybe we can have all of the alternatives embodied in our model.

i think one think that we should do is to consult with as many scholars that we can do. basically in terms of research method it's a interpretative/historical research. in this method the more interpretation the more creditability of the research.

Articles and Sources on 18th-Century Gardens and Architecture

I spent most of the weekend going through 3Ds Max Tutorials to refresh my knowledge. i still need to put more time on going through these tutorials. today i started producing drawings based on illustrations that we have from Vauxhall, the PDF file "Articles and Sources on 18th-Century Gardens and Architecture" is a collection of fantastic illustrations that will help a lot. i started reeding the text and tomorrow i will focus on creating some Autocad drawings based on these existing illustrations.

Installing 3Ds Max

spent some time yesterday and today, to install the latest version of 3Ds Max, through my student account, i will spend some time today and tomorrow to update my knowledge and to figure out what has changed since the last time i used this software.

Should we add a design phase?

i have been trying to figure out more about the project for last 2 hours. Stephen's PDF presentation helped a lot! i also went through this website:

http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/

kind of similar projects. i have started to think that we may need to add a design phase to this project instead of just sketching whatever information that we have. seems like tehre are so many parts of that building that are missing now. so we probably need to provide different alternatives for each part and discuss them and chose one! i will talk about that with Stephen.

Found a similar project

I just ran into this paper when i was looking for some papers on sketch interpretation/recognition . i just read the abstract but seems kind of similar to our project, maybe we can use some of their methods and stuff..

http://code.arc.cmu.edu/dmgftp/publications/pdfs/ceren.pdf

First Meeting

This blog is gonna be a log where i will insert my notes on the recreation project that we are doing on a historical building, i am gonna call it Rotunda project in this blog.

today we had our first official meeting, this project involves two professors(Dr. Wei Yan and Dr. Stephen Caffey) and to graduate students( me and Matt Marshall)

i think it's a perfect group, we have all the essential skills that we need and the enthusiasm to learn whatever that we may need during the process.

we decided to start from creating sketches on what that building would be look like in terms of architectural drawings, meaning plans, elevations, sections, ...

Stephen emailed me and Matt the drawings and sketches that we have from that building and they are so limited. i know for sure that we cannot create architectural documents merely based

on these visual documents. although that's what i expected from the beginning and it's not a surprise. so in simple words, i will start going through the written documents that we have to see how i can recreate that building in my mind.

that's pretty much everything for now, i will try to keep this weblog updated as we go through the project.