Metaverse.+CAD+and+BIM+design.

== ABOUT METAVERSE... ==




 In the selected image we can see a restricted colour gamma. We see colours like grays, browns, beiges, and greens. They give calm and a natural feeling to the environment in the photo. The image resembles a vacation environment like those in hotels or in lodgings. The image reflects the structural size. It is seen like a medium house in a terrain which length is extensive. That terrain contains a lot of desert vegetation in mass besides the structure. Near the house, there are other similar buildings, built for the same purpose of the central structure. The house in the image has a common shape maked with wood and glasses. That is the reason it looks like a country building. It has two levels in height and the first one is more wide than second. All of this characteristics are indicatives for the perspective and they give to the spectator an idea about how is the structural problem of the image.


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 Metaverse article.
 The article “From atelier to e-telier : virtual design studios” written by Jerry Laiserin, exposes the subject of virtual dimensions of studio experience. Laiserin talks about VDS (virtual design studios) and he explains that it is a new way to provide architect students tools to comunicate with other students and designers in the world.

Nowadays the virtual technology allows the people to be connected while they do an activity at the same time in different enviroments. That is the principle of The VDS: Architects and designers will be able to comunicate themselves doing a project by an electronic studio. From 1980s students of harvard and MIT of Boston can communicate among with an “eclectronic Red Line”. In 1990’s a group of former students invented rules for electronically studios and then happen an academy evolution with the Virtual design. In Mary Lou Maher, Simeon Simoff, and Anna Cicognani monograph apear a lot of advantage about the use of The VDS. They say: “ the location of designers is irrelevant … because the workspace of the studio is distributed across the net. Designers are able to enter the studio for interactive and noninteractive sessions connecting to the World Wide Web, multimedia mailers, and/or connecting to a video conferencing session.” By the VDS, architects can design, give their opinios about the design problem and resolve their questions with proffesional help from another universities and locations. Laiserin also explains important concepts related to the VDS like the single or multiple- task collaboration and the synchronous or asynchronous communication. In all of each cases, VDS represent a good way to design by the virtual technology and it give to the future architects a mountain of knowledge about cultures and societies. The VDS have conection in universities of Sydney, Tasmania, and Queensland in Australia; University of British Columbia (UBC); Hong Kong (UHK), Kumamoto, and Kyoto universities in Japan; MIT; the National University of Singapore; Washington University in St. Louis; and the Technical University (ETH) of Zurich, among others. This virtual design is a tool wich can resolve the distance problem in the architecture, but I think is important to keep designing in the real space because architects can reach ageement easily.  




 In my opinion, Metaverse would be a grate tool for designers and architects. With the virtual reality they can show to the public an imagery of their designs by the use of the technology before a building construction. With the Metaverse, architects will engage in the structural problem with more careful without spending time in drawing the building perspective. It is an advantage in the work area, but I think topical architects lack drawing skills,because they never practice drawing plans. That is why I recommend to keep a balance between the use of Metaverse and the drawing.


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 Comparision and contrast paragraph.
 In the design world tehnology has been a need. I refer to the ultimates computer softwares produced for the design market. There are many of this computer programs, but the most popular between architects are CAD and BIM. CAD means “ Computer Aided Design” and it deal with the design and build of 2D layouts and 3D objects with tools wich are especialized to do this works more easy than in reality. In the other hand BIM means “ Building information modeling” and it is the process to create and analyze not only the shape’s design for the structure,it also resolves the structural problems related to the ligth, geography, materials propieties and the spacial relationship. Both Softwares are capable to show a preview of the design in 3D. But BIM offers more advantages than CAD because it would give to the people an idea about the terrain and the enviroment where the building will be built. When architects use CAD, they have to prepare to do handly the design in 2D and then 3D will be an extension of the 2D. In contrast about this, BIM makes this process directly on the computer system, including important issues like ligth and space analisys. However CAD and also BIM show the geometry of the design and the interiors of the building. Then, both programs would save a lot of time and the money spent on the projects materials.


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**Contrast Images: CAD VS BIM. **

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**<span style="color: #27ce83; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 110%;">BIM model. **