Category: Architecture
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Prairie Style Architecture
Dwight Percy Bently is an architect from La Crosse WI. His work is heavily inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright. I have modeled some of his houses in Revit, which I have yet to add to this site. One house I have added here is Helgaland (Not a prairie style). The website linked above is a…
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Jacob Schunk Farmhouse
In my recent pursuit to model every building in the registry of historic buildings, I found that there are two located in my hometown of Germantown Wisconsin. One is surprisingly close to the house that I grew up in, that being the Jacob Schunk farmhouse. It was built in 1858 for German dairy farmer Jacob…
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Vertical Log Walls in Revit
In my recent study of Helgaland, I ran into a dilemma. What is the best way to model vertical log walls in Revit? The first thing I tried was using a bump map texture of vertical lines to approximate the log shadows. This didn’t work nearly well enough and I realized I needed to find…
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Helgaland a.k.a. the Gundersen House
Perhaps the coolest house in La Crosse Wisconsin is, in my opinion, Helgaland. Helgaland was the summer residence of Mr. A Gundersen and his wife, Helga. Dr. Gundersen is known as the founder of Gundersen Health System. The home was designed by Bentley and Merman Architects in the year 1918. It is located smack dab…
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House Design Ensuites 24.08.05
Over the past weekend, I wanted to design a house. I like creating houses that I think I’d realistically enjoy living in. Given the rising cost of construction and property, a smaller house that uses the space efficiently would be ideal. I would also like for the house that I design to be the one…
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Improved Honeybee Model
I started by cleaning up some previous code. I realize now how important keeping a consistent data structure can be. I want to organize my groups using some sort of color code. Yellow for user input, Green for user output, red for calculations or something like that. I’ve seen something like that online before but…
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Honeybee Energy Calculations
There is a very powerful tool for Grasshopper within Rhino 3D. The Ladybug Tools collection includes many add-ons that allow for energy calculations, lighting calculations, air flow calculations, and much more. Building detailed models for energy and light simulations has never been simpler using Rhino’s speedy modeling tools. I find the visual programming workflow that…
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I74 Bridge through Bettendorf
The general dimensions for the model of this bridge were found in an issue of Civil Engineering by ASCE. Page 41 in the November 2022 magazine show these images depicting a general scale of the bridge. Model Images
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Residental House Model
An interesting application for 3D printing is in the presentation of architectural models, either to show multiple proposed options, or as an intuitive way to present a design so the viewer can get a sense of scale and overall feel of the building. To show this I modeled the floors of a residental suburban house…