Since I am not in studio I found that I have much more time. With this light load that I have - I have been able to spend most of that free time studying for the LEED exam which I will be passing OCT31 - Yes that’s right passing. With so much free time (not really just feels like it) I have decided to keep myself busy. I am spending more and more time learning Ecotect. My employers are pushing to see how much I can get out of Ecotect. Ecotect seems to be mainly used for daylighting, but the firm where I am at has asked me to investigate the plug-ins that are available for ecotect such as Winair's CFD tool. Being a student this is becoming a great educational experience. One of the best features of Ecotect is that it gives a great visual feed back...Some of the images I am posting our similar to the ones that I have posted previously, but I think they are very cool.
Images (ecotect/radiance+experimenting w/cfd)
until next time
Fabian
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Ecotect seems like a nice time saver for the environmental impact and thorough site investigation for a design. I get a bit lost in your images above, though, after the interior perspectives. What are the images after that measuring?
l8rpeace
Those Images are showing a CFD anaylsis which is meaasuring airflow
those images are not good ones, as I was only experimenting with the software at the time.
CFD (computational fluid dynamics) is a usually used to measure air flow. so a good example would be using to see how air travels through a space- possibly for natural ventilation.
Fabian
Here are some sample images - where you can see how the air flow thru a space (experimental image)
Fabian -
Very cool, and I can see more clearly what you've been experimenting with. Can Ecotect do something like wind load/lateral force calculations?
l8rpeace
to be honest, I am not sure it can do that. I have not seen anything regarding wind load/lateral force calculations in the Ecotect help index, or export plugins.
I believe Revit Structure might be able to.
Fabian
either way, th images are pretty cool, and doubly so since they actually communicate important imformation. it's not like pretty fluff or anything, so it would be a really positive tool to communicate certain information to clients.
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