Arch Design 3 - Beta

My progress on designing an exhibition facility for a piece of modern art, is beginning to produce presentable results. On the following rendering the form of the construction acting as roof (for the frontal part of the building) is depicted.

The shadows created on this rendering are considered the worse possible, given the position (angle) of the sun. Thus the percentage of coverage is efficient (?). I think i am going to need some help from my tutor on this.

Shigeru Ban - Wall less house

My second exercise on Architectural Design was a reconstruction (in scale) and analysis of a medium house of a prominent modern architect of our choice. I choose Shigeru Ban's Wall less house in Nagano, Japan part of his Case Study Houses. Minimalistic and outrageously simple was the definite love at first sight for me.

So...the result of my exercise was

• 3 1/100 scale models (depicting the different arrangements of the furnitures)
• 1 1/50 cross-section of the building
• 1 1/50 scale model of the building (with surroundings)

Photos of them can be seen in a photo set here (Flickr)

Takis Zenetos - To strogilo

At last!
My first exercise as a student in Architecture... It's about a school in Agios Dimitrios (Athens) build by Takis Zenetos in '70s. I tried to depict the main volumes of the building and their connection.

The outcome was a plotter printed 50x70cm poster about the building.Here in electronic format (not original quality):
The programs used:

• AutoCAD 2008
• 3d Studio Max 2008
• Mental Ray
• Photoshop CS3

And many hours on them... :)

Radiation - Not harmfull for life (sort of life in fact)

"A colony of bacteria found 2.8 kilometers below the Earth's surface in a South African gold mine is able to sustain itself without energy from the Sun. While sub-surface colonies of microorganisms utilizing sulfur (mostly near deep sea hydrothermal vents) is not new, this particular colony is unusual. The colony does it by relying on radioactive uranium to split water into hydrogen gas. Thus, instead of solar energy and photosynthesis, this species relies on radioactive materials and sulfur/hydrogen to facilitate its energy needs."
With such bacterias in mind anyone could imagine another planet in space that can host life form like this...Such a remarkable discovery!...
After that some people must redifine the comment for the neutron nuclear bomb...("the neutron bomb destroyes every lifeform...")

Maya 8.0

After a long time using AutoCAD (near my father) I descided to fiddle with Maya 8.0, the famous cousin of AutoCAD...Just for educational reasons...
Autodesk Maya Product Information

C'mon baby light my....PC!

When you are bored...nothing to do...ideas come to your mind!Unfortunately for some PC you also decide to commit such actions!
Results : see the pictures ...
The idea for the "lighting" tower was from Haroulis(as always has the most kafrous ideas)

Gnome vs KDE

As a native Windows user from 1990 and a fan of *nix systems since 1997 I came to a point where my free time is pleanty enough to migrate to the NEW world!i 've used Linux(mandrake 10/KDE) before but now the time has come for advanced usage....And here is the question...."Gnome or KDE???"....after reading this one (http://www.illusionary.com/GNOMEvKDE.html) I would definatelly choose Gnome!But ,seriously, I choose Gnome for the really realistic approach on desktop handling.Ubuntu or Fedora was another question but i ended up to 2nd just because i dont like the preordering of ALL things in a OS....Today is my first real day with Linux...My first real day with PCs.

Eduardo Souto Moura

Yesterday i saw a really nice presentation of the works of Eduardo Souto Moura,the famous Portuguese architect,presented by himself.The way his mind is working on architectural projects is GREAT!He analyzed a stadium project.His presentation a real Must for every one in the world of architecture.
A link for his work....
http://www.cidadevirtual.pt/blau/moura.html

Nice Hacker Site...

Very nice essay about Hacker Culture.Maybe it is analyzing to much the other definitions but still is OK!
http://webzone.k3.mah.se/k3jolo/HackerCultures/index.htm

Watzaa!

This gonna be the official Blog of Papadeas Pierros....exposing his thoughts,hobbies,activities....Hope u enjoy it and post some nice comments...