Rendering at Best

Views in Revit

Revit Renderings - Studio Loft

Process for attempting to render in Revit rather than in Podium via Sketch-up. When playing with the settings I find that I rather like Revit's method of rendering because I can choose to turn lights on the interior on and off, just use sunlight, choose the season for the sunlight, choose the location of the designed space (NC, SC, or even CA), and the various qualities of the renderings.

I chose the settings of Summer solstice and Interior: Artificial Lighting and Natural Lighting.

Medium attempt with barely any materials assigned to the structure:



Setting on high with more materials specified as well as furniture being present:


More to come as I get better at rendering materials properly and make changes before the final due date.

Revit Tutorial Images

Just a look into my first assignment in Revit, follow the directions of a tutorial to learn about all the tools and settings of the program. Aside from some hang ups every once in a while I rather like this program.

Revit Tutorial

The first glance of what I can do in Revit, and AutoDesk program that can utilize 3D and 2D in order to create a visualization of the space for the designer and for the client.

Summary on "Computing in Architectural Design"

"Computing in Architectural Design" is an article about the beginning of design in architecture from the time of the Renaissance to the beginning of the computing age where designers started utilizing technology in order to portray a point of view.

As an art history minor, I found in really interesting how this article went back even farther than the beginning of computers by comparing tools of design that were precedents for the computing age like the golden section and the idea of humans being the center of the universe. (And therefore design is important to create a human factor in which humans are the center of everything, like in Palladio's Villa Rotunda.)

Having just being introduced to the idea of computer generated design with programs like Sketch-up and AutoCAD the concept of the whole thing is very new to me since I was always so comfortable rendering and drafting by hand. Reading this article I realize that this concept of design technology is rather new compared to the historic standards done with straight-edge and triangle. The first computers being used even wasn't even really used for the design of a project but more for computing and "number crunching". The interest in using computers for design purposes wasn't even as much a first interest for architects as it was for the people in the academic circles.

While the development of computer aided design was going on, designers and engineers alike had many different ideas about how this whole process should work. From reading the article there were so many different precedents to the current AutoCAD and AutoDesk softwares in order to get to this proficiency in designers being able to generate their work for their own visualizations and the visualizations of their clients. Will computers ultimately take over the work of architects? I don't see it happening, while computers are great with number crunching and calculating of dimensions I don't see them replacing the designer in the design portion, I think technology will always just be a tool for a human's use. Experiences we have as designers and individual thought processes are what give us these designs and ideas, computers cannot so this.