ARCHITECTURAL DIGITAL TOOLS

Those days of paper and pencil are long gone, but we all knew this.  I wasn't required to pick up a pencil since my first year in Architecture school, and that was just a means of breaking us down, and filtering out the meek. Now in fourth year, we find our selves working strictly with digital tools such as; the 3D modelling prototype, and the laser cutter. With this you can see in a few years there will be no need to present projects on paper, just digital projections, or even holograms.  

The image above is a project done for one of my digital tools classes, created in AutoCad, 3DMax, and Rhino. It was then loaded into Ryerson University's new laser cutter (apart of the new digital fabrication lab) and then cut out of 3mm thick blue plexi-glass. The image is actually only a rendering of the final product. Believe me the final product did not look any different from this. The project was to create a lamp shade using only the laser cutter, and a Ikea lamp cord needed to me incorporated into the assembly.