Frog Up or Down

 The Weather Engine If your detailing on any of the external Fascades, then you need to understand the weather. But be warned its not simple, its dan complex, but the weather in you major battle front. Keeping the weather out not just from the internal living space, but the detail itself. and I hope this will be covered in later posts. But for now lets look at the weather, in all its glory. I have written a short overview in the form of a ePub Electronic digital book. There are a couple of reasons for this, first its cheap, I write the narative and send it to Dropbx as an ePub, second I can update it easily, third, and parhaps most important, it allows you to make notes, ask questions and research your own knowledge base. I so hate marking up any paper book, but an electronic book is made to add notes to, and if your using almost any reader, to open the book, it will allow you to mark a word, sentence, or paragraph and add your own thoughts, these you can copy and paist into your K...

This week, I shall take some of my students to the top of a carpark roof to view a construction site below, its the ideal way to watch a site in daily operation, see the way the site is laid out and where and why construction is started. We take with us the gantt chart and look for items that should be completed and whats just started. I wanted to add a time lapse video, but it just got messy, so the photo is all I can do, except it will be the same photo spot and on each Friday, so given enough photos I can make a nice time lape video. There is so much to be learned by just sitting and watching, shadow, rain its worth the time to observe, and see how it interacts with your details. I like to touch and feel, old details, even on the surface there is still things to learn, drip details, overhangs, change of material, and in an old city ike Birmingham, there are detail example that have been working well for over 100 years. So often details are the result of committees, groups...

OK, it's raining, and going out dog training, looks increasingly a bad option, the coffee shop and pastry, looks like a much better option. In one of those office conversations, I had the idea for overcoming the problem of ceating sections, in Vectorworks where the wall has no detail, no brick coursing or for that matter material heights, I'm trying to work it out, so the moleskin is going to get a bashing today as I sketch and pull idea together. I had an Architect mate of mine make contact with a new job, so it looks like I shall be busy for a few weeks creating two house types and a site plan, plus all the usual details. I have had my paper for ICAT accepted, so its a race to get the paper written, well finished, I have had about 10 pages fleshed out with notes and research needed, so its just a case of head down. I have an appointment with one of the professors who lectures in big data at Birmingham City Uni, next week, so questions pilling up. The CIAT AGM is...