Project VVV (Virtual Visible Views)

[Michael]

Project V V View Makers having accepted an invite to V_V_V google group and confirmed running of AC 14 B3636 TW2, have received a password for VVV_Mithoff, our 1st V_V_V BIM

EDU users will receive passwords within 48 hours and Others instructions for participation, from 041311 1:00 AM GMT-4

[Michael]

Step Seven - Week Four for Project V V V (Virtual Visible Views) starts today, 051011, at 10:00 PM EST, GMT -4:00. - Update

CoDE Collaborative Design Environment a couple screenshots uploaded here

V V V Mithoff BIM_051011 update has been saved at the CoDE site in the project file cabinet at Project V V V Home for EDU/Start/Others Team.

Virtual Visible View Makers post your Views this week.

[Michael]

Step Eight - Week Five for Project V V V (Virtual Visible Views) starts today, 051711, at 10:00 PM EST, GMT -4:00. - Update, this is our half way point in the world wide experiment V_V_V.

Some views are beginning to appear in the BIM.
Some View Makers have written privately that personal issues that have naturally surfaced, have besieged their walks on Earth.....thus participation has not been up to expectations.

This writer has, until yesterday, had to contend with a retiring laptop....C, B, E, W keys on the keyboard not functioning, scrolling track pad out of control, graphics card diminishing. Accept my apologies for slow responses, mis-spelled words, additional unintentional letters in words, fading graphics card.

We have:

• posted AC 14 solo and archived files for those that can not access the V_V_V Mithoff BIM.
  AC 13 was also placed in View Maker Brian's drop-box today.
  View Maker Paul is doing his best to have EcoDesigner give us a report.
  View Maker Steve is in the process of loading the MEP library.
  Lots of give and take in the Markup discussions is happening, in real time.

Keep the Views flowing, they are our modern day drums, be they a plan, elevation, perspective, section, axonometric, schedule, statement, or layout. ArchiCAD makes it so very easy, don't you agree ?

Our beat is seen and heard in the syncopated Views, the result of prolific skills of View Makers !

Virtual Visible View Makers post a markup in the BIM this week.

[rob2218]

this is all fine and dandy folks...but it's highly "cryptic" what you are saying. Where's the "background information" on what the heck this thread is about? it's like someone is talking Archi-jibberish or something.

[Michael]

Step Nine - Week Six for Project V V V (Virtual Visible Views) starts today, 052411, at 10:00 PM EST, GMT -4:00. - Update, trounding the far corner world wide track and ArchiCAD BIM Server experiment V_V_V.

Our layout book is beginning to fill in V_V_V Mithoff BIM.

Our focus this week is to prepare the schedules, continue with the plan refinements, provide exterior ornamentation

Our roof schematic needs to have relocated those air handlers closer to chase.....and with a net zero energy consumption be as compact as possible.

View Makers are drawing the music ........chih chih te chih, chih chih te chih, chih chih te chih, chih chih te chih, chih chih te chih, chih chih te chih syncopated Views !

Virtual Visible View Makers make our vibrant, non-virulent, Roof Garden, in V V V Mithoff, one the World will emulate.

[rob2218]

Michael,
can you please explain in plain English what is this post about?
I'm having a hard time following what you are writing here.
It "appears" interesting enough, just don't write it in autobot computer generated responses.

What is this all about ?

[JaredBanks]

Rob2218,

Well said. I was really excited when someone wanted to do a global user based experiment like this. I thought it'd be a great thing to be a part of and some great promo for the community. But it's basically been impossible to decipher anything.

I've read every e-mail connected to this project and am still confused and a bit disappointed. The language used is really detrimental to the collaboration process and horribly obtuse. It's impossible to hold a conversation when someone is talking like that. Michael, please cut out all the goofy language and just explain to all of us in clean English how the project is going and what it's about. Many of us are excited to be involved and/or follow the project.

[Michael]

Our layout book is beginning to fill in V_V_V Mithoff BIM.

A layout book in ArchiCAD is a collection plans, sections, elevations, schedules, three dimensional visualizations, and other communicative forms of graphic and written expressions, collectively known as views.

"the layout book is filling in" translates as the Views are being populated into the BIM model, known to the View Makers as V_V_V Mithoff.

Our focus this week is to prepare the schedules, continue with the plan refinements, provide exterior ornamentation .

This week's directive step for the dozen active View Makers is to prepare the ArchiCAD database generated schedules, also continue with the plan refinements on any of the various eight levels of floor plates, mostly presented in colored zones, and finally to provide additional exterior ornamentation if deemed appropriate by individual designers.

This experiment has embraced self-directed individuals to take initiatives when communal contributions have been absent.
This approach is an intentional, non-conventional, heuristic strategy.
It is succeeding beyond expectations.

Our roof schematic needs to have relocated those air handlers closer to chase.....and with a net zero energy consumption be as compact as possible.

As one of the View Makers has RESERVED the layer with Air Handlers on the roof, clashing with the very beautiful, serene four story interior living wall element, he is being asked, outside the BIM, (as well as within the BIM) to relocate the air handlers nearer the seven story shaft of the building. Sometimes a user may not log in to the BIM and it is necessary to communicate by direct email, or for demonstration purposes in this thread you are reading.

The following quote may help some non-intiated individuals (taken from this blog site http://goo.gl/Ku5Tu) :

a net-zero energy building is defined as one that produces at least as much energy as it uses on an annual basis, there are times — peak demand times, for instance — when even the best net-zero energy buildings may be drawing from the grid. As soon as they draw a single electron from the grid, they cease to be carbon neutral, even if they make up that energy later in low-demand times with a surplus of renewable energy.

One of the initial goals of the experiment is the development of a virtual net zero energy building.

View Makers are drawing the music ........chih chih te chih, chih chih te chih, chih chih te chih, chih chih te chih, chih chih te chih, chih chih te chih syncopated Views !

The author of this post, often amends and augments the architecture with other various forms of ART, by the incorporation of music, dance and poetry into the sacred zoetic world's he creates.

The simple notation in the quote above is referenced to that desire, that all the buildings become what the are meant to be, and it begins with the leadership of design professionals, the View Makers of our time, emancipators to the built environs.

Virtual Visible View Makers make our vibrant, non-virulent, Roof Garden, in V V V Mithoff, one the World will emulate.

Imagine if you will, your client, and the the end users of its buildings knocking on your doors, because through your efforts, you have created with others a vibrant non-toxic roof garden, that uplift the soul that experiences its life forces at work.

Descending into La Guardia International Airport last week, I saw acres upon acres of prime roof area, awaiting our talents, dream-weaving visible real, healthy, nondestructive results.

Fokes, let's lift each other up in our dialogs and in doing so we lift the world. If there is need of more clarifications, at any time, we View Makers are happy to oblige.

[rob2218]

Great...maybe I "shouldn't" have asked to clarify your comments Michael. I'm more confused now than I was before.....too many multi-sylabic words dude.

I'm a simple man dude...I just need explanations so a third grader can understand. Sorry dude but I'm "IN" the profession. I'm a designer. I've designed numerous buildings and if I, who is in the profession, cannot understand what you are trying to convey, then how can a client, who knows nothing about our profession other than he needs a building to fulfill his needs.....sorry man but I'm saying it as simply as I can.

Anyway you can condense all your rhetoric so we (I) the common lowly designer can understand?

Is there a "visual" website where all this jargon may be seen???

[Michael]

Step Ten - Week Seven for Project V V V (Virtual Visible Views) starts today, 053111, at 10:00 PM EST, GMT -4:00. - Update, ArchiCAD BIM Server experiment V_V_V.

* There is a Roof Garden Schematic in V_V_V Mithoff BIM now.
* Regarding net zero energy consumption and its inactivity about the dispassionate populace a one might want to gander this link from the Gaurdian UK: http://goo.gl/Na6Vz
o excerpt:
+ "Such warming would disrupt the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people across the planet, leading to widespread mass migration and conflict. That is a risk any sane person would seek to drastically reduce."

Our focus this week is a continuation of last week's preparation of schedules, continued plan refinements, provisions for exterior ornamentation .....

View Makers that have been unable to participate, now is the time, be the passionate professional you want to be, by teaching, leading, and reasoning with those about you......we are........
Virtual Visible View Makers..... countering climate change with concern, providing remedies in the built environs.

[Michael]

Step Eleven - Week Eight for Project V V V (Virtual Visible Views) starts today, 060711, at 10:00 PM EST, GMT -4:00. - Update, ArchiCAD BIM Server™ experiment V_V_V. This is our final week.

Four requests are put forth here for View Makers :

1. View Makers sign into the BIM model and in the Master Layouts on the 30 x 42 sheet, and place your name and the time zone you work while making your contributions. If you have not been able to gain access to the model, and want to see your name included in the follow-up publications, go to item 3 below, so you will be recognized for your participation.

2. View Makers take a few minutes and complete Step 4, this is an important task.

3. View Makers send your observations, comments, exceptions, and analysis for the experimental project to michael@scarmack.com.

4. Virtual Visible View Makers.....add more views !