Here is a link to a write up on the pentagon memorial designed by KBAS Studio.   Head over to archdaily and check out the post. Congrats Keith & Julie. It looks amazing!!!

Project: 2010 Richmond Olympic Oval
Architect: Cannon Design
Engineering : StructureCraft
Construction: StructureCraft

So… there has been a great conversation on the DesignReform forum about the use of Revit and Inventor to further the direct to fabrication work flow.  The conversation started with Santiago from StructureCraft posting a few images of the 2010 Richmond Olympic Oval project.  Below is the text posted on the forum and some more images from the StructureCraft website.

Inventor screen capture for part of the Olympic Oval project

Follow along and /or contribute to the  Autodesk Inventor for architecture forum post here

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Here are some updated images from SHoP’s 290 Mulberry project. If you have not see the project you can see more images at http://290mulberry.com

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Since all the software conversation is really no fun unless we put it to use to build things. I figured I should post some of the latest images of the precast panels from the 290 Mulberry Project (Project description PDF) by SHoP Architects’ (just in case, that’s where i work).

The real reason this project is applicable on this site is the explorations done in parametric modeling and BIM. As i said in an earlier post this was SHoP Architects Revit pilot project. Even though SHoP has been 3d modeling their projects for a while now this was the first time the drawing sets were integrally tied to the 3d model. The building was modeled in Revit 9.0 (now in 2008), the model was used for DD and CD and is now being used full time for CA.

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