According to the previous speaker’s terminology I will not tell about “baga-boos” and “biddies”,
but will show one “thing” to you.
Are there many people working with architecture, building or design here?
The speech will be about modeling modules made for
architectural, educational or design purposes and how they are used in education.
From the first presentation you know that virtual reality might be used in different spheres.
And I would tell you about one of the ways.
But first I would like to tell a few words about evolution of a model.
You all must know that there are 2D drafts, because we all had drafting at school.
Now we have drafting imitation software where you draw lines on paper.
But in 3D modeling used in Russia and abroad you can coordinate different parts of the building.
And you can add information to different parts of 3D model.
Then you can apply to any section and get data about it:
what kind of wall it is, what kind of bulk etc.
And in the building industry there is another 4D modeling
where you have time as the measure - each geometrical section needs time to be developed.
Here you can see a Baltimore project, it’s totally animated.
Before staring the development of the building you can try all the variants.
And other attributes can be added, like material, cost, so on and so forth.
Thus you have informational model of a building.
Now about video media of the information.
If you print 3D model it is still 2D.
But in the computer model you can turn and shift the objects.
You all know big cinemas with stereo screen when you can be inside of the image.
The same way you can upload the model into mini IMAX Theater and walk around the building,
see what is where and other things in a house which is not built yet.
Now engineers can escape great number of problems —
the reality can be simulated before building.
Evolution of prototype making is very similar to the video media evolution.
In architecture, especially applied to nuclear energy or mechanical engineering,
prototypes are much in use.
Physical prototype is usually made of plastic or wood.
Virtual models are 2D or Immersive Environment Labs or a cave,
when you can go deeply into the virtual model, and touch, feel objects and so on.
Here can see so called augmented reality — when virtual world is laid upon the real one.
You all saw movies when a hero puts on a helmet
and gets information about the real surrounding objects.
In Michigan University there are investigations, when people put on costumes with GPS navigation
and they can get information precisely from the observed objects.
You can walk around the street and see buildings which are only planned to be built.
Now I will speak about educational purposes,
about educational modules created for engineers in architecture.
You can see the system of a building as one whole thing
with all the components and show them to students who haven’t seen them in real.
And you have all the parts visualized, it is done both for educational and for industrial purposes.
Virtual laboratory is an architectural engineering lab with three screens.
A small IMAX theatre with three screens, two projectors behind each screen are set to get the stereo effect
reached having from different pictures in the right and the left eyes.
It is not hard to organize such a lab — you just need to buy projectors and video card
and you can work in a team or individually with these educational or industrial modules.
Here you can see that people are analyzing one of the buildings.
When one company realized that they were about to appear beyond deadlines,
they asked the university to make analytics.
We combined the timetable and the model and found the area
to be reduced for improving the efficiency
and we saved 1.5 month and they escaped huge fines.
This technology is called Building Information Modules (BIM).
Let’s see the slides quickly.
BIM. It is when information attributes to sections and other info
about kinds of armature or form used can be added.
3D is coordination. 4D is planning.
5D is estimation.
Here you can see a stadium where many drafts are laid
one on another and you can practice on 3D models.
This is when many components are combined into one model
where you can find a conflict and solve it.
Here you can see the analyses of a hospital development
with a helicopter landing ground, Northern California.
The ground was to be able to accept patients from accidents.
In 20 minutes the building company had to stop work
in order helicopters could land with no trouble.
It was analyzed and planned in 3D and 4D with timetable and in also in 5D modeling
when you can pull out a segment of a building and take all the information and then make analysis.
You can also add cost here.