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2006-10-07
08:23 PM
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02:37 PM
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Noemi Balogh
2006-10-07 09:44 PM
2006-10-09 06:24 PM
2006-10-09 07:58 PM
Hassanen wrote:It's becoming more common as some jurisdictions are now requiring shadow studies as part of their environmental impact standards.
I doubt this is something a lot of clients would ask for.
2006-10-09 08:45 PM
Matthew wrote:yes, in all Toronto high rise projects I've been involved with so far, it's been a requirement (along with wind studies, which we sent out to an engineering firm that does it using a physical model in a wind tunnel), it usually means simply running ArchCAD’s “Create Sun Study” , however the client in this case has asked specifically to show the shadows of our proposed building in two different heights with two different colours that are different than the colour of the surrounding buildings’ shadows, which does complicate things a bit!
It's becoming more common as some jurisdictions are now requiring shadow studies as part of their environmental impact standards.
2006-10-10 12:08 AM
Hassanen wrote:Please do write it up.
thanks Dwight, yeh I ended up with a compromise solution, I used two models one with the background buildings in shadow catcher material with red shadow colour, and another with normal materials but without my building, then overlaid them in Photoshop. of course this being a shadow study I had to do this for 30 different times of the year and day! But Photoshop Automated Actions made the process easier and less repetitive, if anybody ever gets a request for something like this I'll be happy to give more details into the process, I doubt this is something a lot of clients would ask for.
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