SOHO Architects Research Notes

Sunday, 24 May 2020

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About a century ago, the modernist architect and theorist Adolf Loos declared that applied ornament was a retrograde, even criminal, waste o...

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It is all too easy, when looking at a finished project, product, or building, to forget that it took a massive effort to reach that point of...
Wednesday, 7 November 2018

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“We are teaching performance but no competence to produce meaning. Parametric design today offers infinite options, but contemporary archite...
Tuesday, 24 October 2017

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NEC3 contracts NEC was first published in 1993 as the New Engineering Contract. It is a suite of construction contracts intended to promot...

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JCT contracts The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) was formed by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) In 1931 when the first JCT...
Monday, 20 February 2017

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Many building processes still involve sub-standard working conditions and are not compellingly sustainable. Current research on the integrat...
Thursday, 8 December 2016

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[CAD Note]  AEC (UK) BIM Protocol Implementing UK BIM Standards for the Architectural, Engineering and  Construction industry. Version ...

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[CAD Note]  BIM levels Level 0 BIM Unmanaged computer aided design (CAD) including 2D drawings, and text with paper-based or electronic ...
Saturday, 7 February 2015

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[CAD Note] According to Laiserin and others, the first implementation of BIM was under the Virtual Building concept by Graphisoft's Ar...
Sunday, 16 June 2013

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Departures from basic geometries in architecture have historically often coincided with the development of new materials. This correlation i...
Saturday, 23 March 2013

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The practice of architecture is and will remain primarily an information system, but architecture within this given phase of modern process ...
Monday, 18 February 2013

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[CAM Note] Additive Manufacturing. With Additive Manufacturing parts are built by melting thin layers of powder. Material is added instead o...
Monday, 28 January 2013

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[CAM note] Optimization in Paneling Architectural Freeform Surfaces. The emergence of large-scale freeform shapes in architecture poses big...

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The Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques is an international non-profi...
Monday, 21 January 2013

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We live in the world of a sad separation that began some five hundred years ago when art and science split apart. Scientists and technicians...
Monday, 17 December 2012

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[CAM note]  " 3D printers shape up to lead the next technology gold rush. A number of young companies are racing to corner the burgeo...
Thursday, 22 November 2012

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"Viewed against the backdrop of epochal changes registered in industrial technology, architectural technology, since late modernism, ...
Thursday, 4 October 2012

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[CAM-CAD note] "SHoP designed the exterior of the building in CATIA, which allowed them to deconstruct the model into its fabrication...
Tuesday, 18 September 2012

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Typically two critical concerns are voiced regarding the research presented by SAI. The first concern relates to the manufacturing and assem...
Thursday, 9 August 2012

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In design, architecture and many other disciplines, Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) fabrication equipment has given designers unprece...
Wednesday, 8 August 2012

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[CAM Note] From 3D formwork drawings to CNC milling. The specifications and two-dimensional drawings normally employed in construction of b...
Saturday, 21 July 2012

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[CAD note] Computational design lends itself to an integral design approach as it enables employing complex behaviour rather than just mod...

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"The relationship between biology and building is now in need of clarification due to real and practical exigencies. The problem of env...
Saturday, 23 June 2012

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[CAD/CAM organisational issues] The advanced descriptive, analytical and communicative capabilities of digital tools are encouraging their...
Sunday, 8 April 2012

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[CAM Note] Shaping the glazing unit. Gravitational bending. This manufacturing technique is generally based on the production of a mould t...
Tuesday, 28 February 2012

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Technical Visualisations and Animations – which constitute a communication platform between architects and the other project participants ...
Wednesday, 1 February 2012

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  [CAD Note] Structure as set of data. A basic tenet of engineering holds that before acting, one should always integrate a more fundament...
Sunday, 15 January 2012

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Interesting note about Standards: - The British Engineering Standards Association was founded in 1902, - The German national equivalent wa...
Monday, 26 December 2011

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Once, as "master builders" architect both designed and built structures. However, architects relinquished their direct role in the...
Monday, 28 November 2011

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[CAD Note] BIM issues. Inherent to BIM is parametric design software tied to data contained in spreadsheets. Changes made to either the di...
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