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Aravena buildings in Sketchup / ORDOS 100

By David Basulto — Filed under: Houses , Software , , ,
 

A few days ago we featured an interview with Alejandro Aravena and his project for a villa in ORDOS 100, with more than 70 images. In order to further extend the possibilities of understanding this project, Alejandro shared with us a very detailed Sketchup model that is now availabe on Google Warehouse for you to download, explore, explode, modify, share back with us and all the possibilities that Google Sketchup offers.

Let us know what you think, what you found out by exploring this model, what you modified, etc. Next month we will feature the model for the new building at the Vitra Campus, and St Edwards later on.

 

14 comments »

Richie says:

Cool gesture.. more architects should do this!

 
# December 11, 2008 at 13:19
fb says:

blech.
sketch up is really bad.
the object snap engine is horrible
for a free program it’s ok…

 
# December 11, 2008 at 20:02
Henrik says:

kein blech. sketchup is really good. the snap engine is superb (best in the market in my opinion). just the high-poly support is suboptimal.

almost all of my projects were designed using sketchup.

 
# December 11, 2008 at 21:42
bald skull says:

haven used SketchUP, Rhino, Maya, Solidworks, for daily use and having the ability to make minor and often changes, Sketch up is pretty solid. being able to export (in the pro version) for rending in Maya or Vray can go along way w/ clients.

 
# December 11, 2008 at 23:41
Hamster says:

Downloading…..

 
# December 12, 2008 at 00:24
Jie says:

it’s sketchup 7….

 
# December 12, 2008 at 06:00
Richie says:

You can download a Sketchup 6 version also if you look at the options that come up when you click the ‘download model’ button in Google Warehouse.

Re: ‘Blech’ – sketchup is a great tool! It’s free, it’s intuitive and simple to learn, and you can use it as a design tool because you can make quick adjustments to objects and see the results of your manipulations right away.. Obviously for doing final \ pro-quality renders it’s lacking in comparison to the big 3D packages, though the plugins & export features are compensating for this more and more.

 
# December 12, 2008 at 06:08
cheese says:

i really hate sketchup.

 
# December 12, 2008 at 12:16
dermot says:

Why?..

 
# December 12, 2008 at 12:38
huyvu says:

sketchup is very good software for architecture

let visit my site http://ivas-workshop.com/

or my blog
http://ktshuyvu.blogspot.com/

 
# December 13, 2008 at 02:34

I think I downloaded this model from another arch website a few weeks ago, great idea and I wish more arch. practices would be willing to share their work like this.

The spaces inside the model are intriguing, if not slightly cramped; adjusting field of view helps counter this but it’s still not easy to imagine what occurs within. Some vital parts are also missing, like how the occupants access the upper room, not to mention context and what actually occurs within each space.

Looking forward to the next models…

 
# January 13, 2009 at 00:51
igregurec says:

it’s nice to have ability to walk trough the object but i’m not very thrilled with sketchUp.
can someone recommend me a software that allows real organic forms and is not to complicated to use?
tnx!

 
# January 13, 2009 at 14:08
Dillon says:

Commenting usually isnt my thing, but ive spent an hour on the site, so thanks for the info

 
# March 26, 2009 at 17:03

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