Gadget – The Really Tiny Book Light

Ok, so you wake up in the middle of the night having caught that elusive design idea that’s been criss-crossing your head for the last couple of days (guilty!) – No rest for the wicked – and you reach for your sketchbook to jolt it down. But it’s dark. And you forgot to change the bulb in your bedside lamp. And your other sketchbook is out of power (guilty again!). Oh, the issues one faces nowadays. What now?

You remember you attached a Really Tiny Book Light to your sketchbook before you went to bed, that’s what.

I got this little baby at Modulor in Berlin, and besides looking extremely neat, it really fits awesomely well to, say, your Moleskine, saving you from the common situation of blind notes that are unreadable the day after (even if you tell yourself you’ll have no trouble remembering what you wrote, seeing it was such a great idea and all).

Here’s a pic of it in action:

Filed under: Gadgets, Tools

Impressions from Berlin

Facade of the Berlin Wall memorial park visitor’s centre

Question: How do you experience Berlin in two days?

Filed under: Excursions, Germany, Photos, Studies, Berlin, LAA215, memorial, park, urban development

Construction design – Pergolas

Rendering of SketchUp model, made in Lumion 2.

The third exercise task given in the construction design course concerns light structures of wood, and we were assigned to design a pergola based on examples given in the lectures.

Technical plan and elevations.

Filed under: Media, Studies, construction design, LAA215, Lumion, Pergola, SketchUp

Construction design – Steps and stairs

Designing steps and stairs is no joke!

In this task I used Google SketchUp exclusively to model my outdoor set of stairs, create the technical drawings needed and plot the layouts. The more I use this tool, the more I enjoy it – and for tasks such as these, there are simply no reason what so ever to use more technical tools such as AutoCAD.

 

Sketches from the design process

Filed under: Studies, construction design, LAA215, materials, sketches, SketchUp

Construction design, part 3

Google SketchUp mock-up model with some custom elements included. 

We have started our first excersise in the construction design course: pavings. On a given part of the project site we are to test out different materials and patterns, while facing issues such as surface runoff, pressure loads, dimensions and aesthetics.

The left-most sketch shows my design idea for the paving. Basically it’s a pattern of concrete elements arranged in a grid extruding from two points on opposite sides of the curved tram line.

Filed under: Studies, CAD, construction design, pavings, sketches, SketchUp