Another discovery by Scot Bathgate:
In 1986, CIVITAS (in New York City) initiated a study, No More Tall Stories, which makes the case for lower buildings, with the same heights as their neighbors, and elimination of plazas along Upper East Side avenues. Paul Newman narrates the video illustrating the issue.
And interesting examples of the work of Berkeley’s Environmental Simulation Lab. What they did before computers.
Vintage Peter Bosselman! Love it! Wish we still had those toys around to play with.
“Vintage Peter Bosselman! Love it! Wish we still had those toys around to play with.”
Hey Brian, we do, and they’re much better, more accurate, far faster. What Peter packed into a very large studio you can do on a 27″ computer screen simulation.
I just mean that when Bosselmann teaches that kind of course now, it’s mostly slideshows. Would have been great to spend a class fooling around in there.
For a specific scenario in a professional context, sure, it’s faster to do everything from scratch on the computer. But just playing around with generic massing as a learning tool?