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Architecture Gone Wrong!

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Carl Douglas (agfa8x)

What cracks me up is the grassless patch which quite clearly follows the path of the focussed beam!

Aug 14, 07 2:17 am  · 
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eastcoastarch03

don't you mean, "landscaping gone wrong"?

Aug 14, 07 12:09 pm  · 
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lletdownl

what is that even a picture of

Aug 14, 07 12:19 pm  · 
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postal

yeah, wow...

they should throw some solar energy collection element right there...

Aug 14, 07 12:51 pm  · 
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Carl Douglas (agfa8x)

It's what happens when you make a parabolic facade out of mirror glass and point it towards the sun.

Aug 14, 07 3:50 pm  · 
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PerCorell

Do you say that the dark spot in the lawn are burned by reflected light center of the architecture?

Aug 14, 07 4:07 pm  · 
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garpike

They should make jerky on the lawn.

Aug 14, 07 4:08 pm  · 
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eastcoastarch03

hell yeah, caribbean jerk would go well with them palm trees

Aug 14, 07 4:10 pm  · 
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PerCorell

--- I would made the design so the sun would burn my name across the lawn during each day, by altering the faces of the volumes to do just that. But them architects can't use computers I guess,,,,,, othervise they Would have done just that.

Aug 14, 07 4:22 pm  · 
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Ms Beary

i'm just glad it isn't one of our projects...

Aug 14, 07 5:43 pm  · 
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That's a great picture, I had to look at it for a while to figure out what was going on there.

Aug 14, 07 6:58 pm  · 
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mdler

they need a sculpture of some really big ants and a smoke machine

Aug 14, 07 8:54 pm  · 
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ff33º

Parabolic BBQ pit would also work....


I've used shadow study functions of softwares , but this thing needed a Solar Radiation Study.

Great Picture!

Aug 15, 07 12:45 am  · 
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shaner

Amoroso do you have a photo of the exterior of the bldg?

Aug 18, 07 2:45 pm  · 
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archMONSTER

Sorry I don’t... I found the picture online and thought you guys would find it humorous!

Aug 18, 07 8:15 pm  · 
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shaner

its effin hilarious! thanks

i was just hopin to see the exterior thats all.. but no worries

Aug 19, 07 1:21 pm  · 
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some person

I did a search for the original image and found this link on another message board:

Google Maps

Click on the person icon for a 360 panoramic view.

Aug 19, 07 1:39 pm  · 
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some person

Or type in the address to

Live Search


55 S Almaden Blvd, San Jose, Santa Clara, California 95113, United States

Aug 19, 07 1:43 pm  · 
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huh. i would NOT have guessed that it faces northeast.

Aug 19, 07 1:58 pm  · 
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PerCorell

How difficult can it be, calculate the area ,store the data from direction vector, change the rotten color there, where these hit some of the same area stored already how difficult can it be ?

Aug 19, 07 2:23 pm  · 
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