If you're looking to take your SketchUp skills to the next level, learning how to render animations can be a great way to showcase your designs. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a professional animation using SketchUp and the photorealistic rendering plugin V-Ray. Our first step will be to create a simple camera animation and then animate the sunlight changing throughout the day. After that, we'll animate the clouds to make a time-lapse sky and learn how to share our final rendered clips with others.
Construction practices across the world, as well as the types and uses of building materials, have been identified as key factors that impact global warming. Studies have shown that the building sector will play a central role in achieving the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) CO2 emissions reduction targets for 2030 and net zero CO2 emissions by 2050.
The construction sector's support for the achievement of these targets must focus on sustainable construction, which entails environmentally-friendly structures that consume less energy and have smaller or even net zero carbon footprints.
Green buildings are structures that, in their design, construction or operation, reduce or eliminate negative impacts on our climate and natural environment. They preserve precious natural resources and improve quality of life.
The Architecture Foundation, in association with the Barbican, presents Architecture on Stage – a programme of talks by the world's leading architects.
We are pleased to announce the launchment of Critic|all V International Conference on Architectural Design & Criticism, organized by the Architectural Design Department of Madrid School of Architecture and Department of Architecture of TU Delft, to be held from 10 to 11 October 2023.
The 28th UIA World Congress of Architects will take place in Copenhagen, July 2-6, 2023. With the theme “Sustainable Futures – Leave No One Behind”, the congress will shed light on architecture’s potential to shape better societies and contribute to a sustainable future. The invited keynote speakers include leading global voices from the worlds of architecture, politics, science and business.
We are delighted to announce the release of CLOU’s third book Social Space! Over 500 pages of project history show CLOU’s thoughts and practice of pushing the boundaries of architecture in the face of social change, new lifestyles, and technological innovations, as well as its unchanging mission: to design the best social spaces in the world. Through four main chapters of Team, Studios, Calendar, and Work, the book takes you through the development of CLOU’s philosophy.
Windows are usually one of the most striking elements on a building and can be completely transformed depending on how they are detailed and installed. However, with the increased consciousness on thermal insulation, the detailing of windows and their installation has become progressively more complicated.
Below we will explore a typical masonry cavity wall, the different elements required to install a modern window and how these all come together on site.
Don't miss out on the opportunity to download the comprehensive Window Detailing Guide PDF complete with full CAD details from the Detail Library.
Daring Cities 2022 is the first and only global, free virtual forum that furthers the exchange of knowledge, builds capacity, and elevates the voices of diverse stakeholders to accelerate multilevel action on the climate emergency.
Join The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture for a lecture with J. Meejin Yoon and Eric Höweler, Höweler + Yoon, on Monday, October 3rd at 5:00 p.m. The event will be in person at the Jessen Auditorium.
Site analysis is a crucial first step in creating a viable building design. Considering site location, topography, zoning regulations, traffic conditions, and climate allows a designer to maximize opportunities and anticipate potential issues. The following four factors are crucial in getting the most value out of site analysis.
To celebrate the third edition of Ioanna Theocharopoulou’s book Builders, Housewives and the Construction of Modern Athens (Onassis, 2022), the Onassis Foundation is hosting a wide-ranging discussion about the relevance of this modern city, its architecture, and ancient history.
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Jacques Tati, tombé de la Lune (Jean-Baptiste Péretié, 2021) - AFFR Campaign Image
The Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, the world’s biggest film festival about urban affairs and the built environment, will take place for the fourteenth time in Rotterdam, the city of architecture. From 5 to 9 October 2022, Theater Zuidplein and LantarenVenster are the places to be for everybody who wants to be carried away by the best documentaries, the most exciting feature films and the most fascinating shorts about the city and architecture. In a programme full of premieres and previously undiscovered films, filmmakers answer all your questions, experts offer illuminating introductions, and people involved discuss the big issues. Also included are masterclasses, a VR lounge, shorts programmes and film classics. For those who cannot choose, there is a Best of AFFR on Sunday.
'Surfaces define our visual experience of space,' say Space Popular, 'which is an enormous part of our experience of places.' Join Architonic for Surface Design Week, as we deep-dive with the Swedish-Spanish design duo, as well as catching up with In Out Studio, m-i-r-a, and João Tiago Aguiar Arquitectos.
Vastukul (Government of India recognized startup is an innovative platform for architecture, design, and planning education, targeted at learners globally) is organizing a lecture with MVRDV World's Most Innovative Company in Architecture & Design and numerous International award Winners MVRDV based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
