Metaverse,+CAD+&+BIM+Design

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//This is the image of a city at night; the lights of the buildings are on, there is much traffic, many people are walking on the street, and the buildings have green areas. From the perspective of the image it seem to have been photographed from a building. //

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**// Sumary of Tech Briefs’s article //** //The “Tech Briefs's article” by Alan Joch is about the innovation of the digital modeling in the ////architecture field. In this article the author talks about a pilot project launched by the General Services Administration (GSA). This pilot project is about the design of Mississippi's courtroom, trough the virtual reality on 3D. //

//The pilot project was launched with the purpose of reconciling the decisions between the design team and the clients (the federal judges) before the implementation of the project. The design team normally spends between $ 50,000 to present projects in models and 2D planes, sometimes the customers are not satisfied, and the end is a large waste of money and time. //

//The author said that this project gives to the client the opportunity to see the complete 3D design before the construction. In the case of the courtroom at Mississippi the clients saw a representation of the project, observing from the judge’s bench and even the witness stand, and also they can hear the acoustic of the room. //

//The federal judges see the design trough 3d glasses in a special room named CAVE (Computer Automatic Vis ////ual Environment) that like the author says “has a wraparound //// screen that stereoscopically reproduced a life-size virtual model of the courtroom”. //

//A great advantage of this project is that when the clients are seeing the presentation and they want make any changes, the design team can do it simultaneously. And one limitation of this project is in its analysis of lighting, because the people can't see some shadows in the representation that, they can see in the real space. But this problem some day will be repaired, like other minor problems. // //I ////n conclusion, with this technological advance in the presentation of projects, the ////communication // //betw ////<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">een clien ////<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">t and ar ////<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">chitect is much better. Although this project has minor problems (which eventually will be solved) there are more advantages, economically also saves a lot of money and the design time is shorter. This pilot project is the base for the evolution in the way that the architects and the urban planners present their projects. Like the GSA said “We need to bring the technology to clients, not the clients to the technology.” In my opinion, digital modeling represents a technological breakthrough for the field of architecture and urbanism. I think that the digital modeling has many advantages and in the future, the urban planners, architects and designers work with it on all projects. //

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//<span style="color: #a56bcc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Opinion Paragraph: // //**<span style="color: #a56bcc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">THE METAVERSE **//

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This week I learned a lot about the metaverse, I think it is the ideal medium for the evolution of how to work as architects or urban planners, because the architects and urban planners from all over the world can work in the same project in this virtual environment. We can save a lot of money with the use of virtual representations, (money that is normally spent on the models and 2D drawings). The customers can have an ideal representation of how will be the building already built and may say about the changes they want to do before carrying out the project. The Material savings for the representation of a project contributes to environmental conservation. Also the digital modeling has some limitations; some people think that digital modeling could isolate the architects and urban planners in the sense of “importance of the place”, and also the virtual reality has some small technical problems as the lighting analysis., but these problems be solved eventually. The metaverse is the basis of a new stage in the evolution of architectural and urban field. //

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<span style="color: #a56bcc; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">COMPARISON BETWEEN CAD AND BIM

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">CAD, also known as computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) is used for the process of design and design-documentation; on the other hand, BIM (Building Information Modeling) is used for the process of generating and managing building data. CAD is used in the design of tools and machinery and in the drafting and design of all types of buildings; in contrast, BIM is used only for the design of buildings. CAD can be used to design two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional spaces (3D) while BIM can be used to design three-dimensional (3D). BIM is able to model representations of the actual parts and pieces being used to build a building unlike CAD. //

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">Both BIM and CADD are used for building design, CADD is easier and faster to learn that BIM, and CAD is also cheaper than BIM, //

//<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;"> but CADD in the design of buildings is good to represent only the plants while BIM is more specialized, it’s useful to represent the entire building project.The two programs are very good and the choice of either depends on user needs. //

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