The Fourth Contribution # Conclusion

Too much time has passed, the first semester's is almost finished and I'd like to sum up some general events and tasks we had during last month.
Firstly I didn't expect that the weather in Dessau would be so warm. I still can take notice of greens around and the only snow I saw here - morning frost. Actually it's the only reason of my homesick - I've missed snow.
Secondly, our studio's going well and pretty productively, we'll have the final presentation in the end of January that's why we have enough time to complete it. Honestly it's pretty difficult to be concentrated on only one project during a few months - it's getting boring and monotonous after a long period of working and drafting, changing ideas and concepts. But it promises to be accomplished by the end of the first stage of my studying here.
Thirdly - I've got a lot of tasks and notices about Grasshopper and other plugins. It'll be easier to publish here some works and surfaces + information and useful links I figured out while searching for a suitable decisions and scripts definitions.

The surface which was created with the help of LunchBox plugin

Example of surface that inspired me.

The Third Contribution: Grasshopper

I couldn't think that I'd be so impressed by Grasshopper. After 3 days of intensive classes we learnt a lot of about algorithms and commands and the structure of plugin is so far from routine modeling and enforces to think deeply and logically. For these days we created parametric surface|attraction points, learnt more about lists properties and its function, trees etc.
Some examples of created schemes:

   

International sharing

Indian brick architecture.
The international studying helps to see incredible and charming details in architecture of country you've never known before...

Rhino. Beginning.

So, my the biggest hope - that I'll able to use Rhino as a BIM tool soon. Unfortunately, it's pretty difficult to discuss about this type of advantages with others. In general, only students who're from USA|Canada are in BIM. Some guys even told me, that a person who's good in Revit is much more appreciated than others with basic 3D knowledges as an employee.
The first goal I set - to be involved in this kind of software for Rhino, at least at the level of acquaintance.

http://blog.visualarq.com/

The Second Contribution: First Impressions

The second month in Dessau came pretty fast. It seems to me, Friday goes after Monday and Sunday doesn't exist at all. This day all of necessary shops are closed and you try to seek consolation in dealing with people. By the way, people're amazing.
Studying reminds me... Nothing. I wanna say, this is absolutely new and unknown atmosphere of self-working, which is suitable and comfortable for me.
We're in process of doing Rhino task now - modeling of one of Dessau quarter. Honestly I feel confused when I'm forced to think about ways of making forms in Rhino which I can make in Revit for 5 min. I grew out of a habit of modeling in other 3D programms apart from Revit and other BIM tools so much, that can't imagine how much time one or another forms will take for me.
Of course, Rhino has a lot of adds I anticipate to learn. About one of added software I'll write the next time.

The gold autumn in Dessau...

The First Contribution

The First Contribution.. about myself, because it's also a part of endowment. We introduce ourselves to society and people learn about us. And people's a part of history we learn. That's why each of us is a small contribution to the World Heritage :)

So, my name's Anastasia, I got the Bachelor degree of Architecture in Moscow and continue my studying in Germany, Dessau, DIA now. I'm going to include my notices about Architecture, Construction Managment, BIM, Computational Design and Life in this blog.   

Anyway, the structure of this blog will enclose the idea of my contributions to this publicity according to knowledge I gain. I want to apologize for mistakes or disorganized sentences in my English in advance, cause I'm in process of its improving :)

It hasn't passed too much time from my arrival in Dessau, therefore I'll publish during next days what I've gained for these 2-3 weeks of Autumn for clear post's organisation.