It is generally true that with the advent of new technology, business relationships change. Sometimes, that is disruptive of old patterns, and new business patterns emerge that challenge existing ways of doing business, and traditional risk allocations. Such is the case with the electronic drawings – Auto- CAD, and BIM or Building Information Modeling – a fancy, now almost out of date acronym for using 3 dimensional, electronic drawings and models as plans and specs.
For architect and educator Nick Dunn, author of “Digital Fabrication in Architecture”, architectural models ultimately ”enable the designer to investigate, revise and further refine ideas in increasing detail until such a point that the project’s design is sufficiently consolidated to be constructed.” Ok, fair enough, that allows Charles Garry to build the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa with curved glass shapes. But piling – that does not need fancy models, it’s all still build the same way, right? Who needs models, fancy electronic plans, when in the end, it’s a hammer and a geotech saying “it’s good”?
It is generally true that with the advent of new technology, business relationships change. Sometimes, that is disruptive of old patterns, and new business patterns emerge that challenge existing ways of doing business, and traditional risk allocations. Such is the case with the electronic drawings – Auto- CAD, and BIM or Building Information Modeling – a fancy, now almost out of date acronym for using 3 dimensional, electronic drawings and models as plans and specs.
For architect and educator Nick Dunn, author of “Digital Fabrication in Architecture”, architectural models ultimately ”enable the designer to investigate, revise and further refine ideas in increasing detail until such a point that the project’s design is sufficiently consolidated to be constructed.” Ok, fair enough, that allows Charles Garry to build the Guggenheim Museum in Bilboa with curved glass shapes. But piling – that does not need fancy models, it’s all still build the same way, right? Who needs models, fancy electronic plans, when in the end, it’s a hammer and a geotech saying “it’s good”?
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