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LANDTECH PAVILION DEMONSTRATION SESSIONS

Saturday, November 1

LT1
Fusion: Immersive Visualization Environments and Your Office
10:00am-11:00am
Introductory

This session will demonstrate 3-D CAD/GIS models and Office Scale Visual Immersion Environments. Can the landscape architect or the client really see the depth in 3-D CAD or GIS models? Does this impede communication between team members or clients? There might be an answer coming. See the depth that 3-D models exhibit in an office scale immersive environment and feel the difference. For more information regarding this session, please contact ebernard@ksu.edu.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Gain knowledge of Office Scale Immersion Environments.
2. Understand the processes in developing 3-D CAD/GIS models for design development and     communication.
3. Obtain fundamental skills for developing 3-D CAD/GIS models for immersive visual communication.

Eric A. Bernard, PhD, is an assistant professor at Kansas State University. Bernard teaches land construction, computer applications for landscape architects, and 3-D modeling and visualization. He is cofounder of the Consortium for Research on Groundwater Based Economies and is funded by the National Science Foundation to develop modeling and visualization tools for integrated natural and social system processes in aquifer-dependent regions.

LT2
?Rocks, Trees, Rivers?: State-of-the-Art in Digital Landscape Modeling
11:15am-12:15pm
Intermediate

Using modern CAD software tools to create 3-D models of landscape requires special knowledge and techniques. The principal elements of landscape—terrain, vegetation, water, and atmosphere—each present special challenges. Some systems come with “off-the-shelf” tools of value to landscape architects, from the "Make Terrain" button to a library of tree forms. This survey of the current state of the art will highlight basic techniques and special functionality in a variety of software packages including AutoCAD, 3-Dstudio Max and VIZ, FormZ, VectorWorks, Maya, Rhino and ArcGIS. This is a follow-up session to education session A8: Friday, October 31, at 10:15am-11:45am.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn state-of-the-art techniques for modeling terrain, vegetation, and water.
2. Acquire information on data sources for digital modeling.
3. Gain knowledge of presentation options for digital models.

Stephen M. Ervin, MLA, PhD, is the director of computer resources and assistant dean for information technology at the Harvard University Design School and is a lecturer in the Department of Landscape Architecture. Ervin teaches and conducts research in areas of design, computing, media, and technology, with a special interest in landscape modeling and visualization and the integration of CAD and GIS. He is the coauthor with Hope Hasbrouck of Landscape Modeling: Digital Techniques for Landscape Visualization (published by McGraw Hill), an ASLA Merit Award winner in 2002.

LT3 - WITHDRAWN
DTMs in Urban Design: Toronto Waterfront Case Study
12:30pm-1:30pm
Introductory

Digital models are increasingly used by designers to test ideas and convey proposals to clients. The malleability of the medium allows for constant reiteration and adaptation. In cooperation with the University of Toronto’s Centre for Landscape Research, the city of Toronto’s Urban Design Department is one of the country's first to utilize digital terrain models (DTMs) in their visual analysis. Using Toronto projects as illustrations, this session will provide an introduction to DTM techniques and their use in a design office. This is a follow-up to education session B8: Friday, October 31, at 1:45pm-3:15pm. For more information regarding this session, please contact mark_lindquist@hotmail.com.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Receive an introduction to Terrain Modeling Tools.
2. Understand the methods of digital terrain modeling.
3. Increase your understanding of the potential use of digital modeling in the design process.

Mark Lindquist, Associate ASLA, is a research associate with the University of Toronto's Centre for Landscape Research where he has worked on various digital visualization projects for clients including the city of Toronto, the University of Toronto, and a community group, the Friends for Fort York.

LT4
Digital Rendering: Integrating AutoCAD and Photoshop
1:45pm-2:45pm
Intermediate

Current office trends show a blurring of the boundaries between the use of traditional and digital design tools. Offices are increasingly using a combination of vector-based software such as AutoCAD and Microstation with raster-based software like Photoshop and Canvas to illustrate, design, and plan proposals. This session will demonstrate one method of integrating AutoCAD with Photoshop to create color-rendered plans in a time-efficient and easily modifiable format.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn how to integrate AutoCAD and Photoshop files.
2. See how to create digital renderings.
3. Understand how to reintegrate raster images from Photoshop into AutoCAD.

David N. Myers, PhD, ASLA, is assistant professor in the landscape architecture program at the University of Maryland. He teaches digital fundamentals, landscape ecology, regional design GIS Studio, and Cadd and Mapping. Jeffrey D. Blankenship, ASLA, is currently a PhD student in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts. He is the Assistant Editor of The Landscape Architect’s Portable Handbook (2001) and was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Maryland in 2002. Jeffrey D. Blankenship, ASLA, is currently a PhD student at the University of Massachusetts. He is the assistant editor of The Landscape Architect's Portable Handbook (2001) and was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Maryland in 2002.

LT5
BDpaysage: New Technologies for a 4-D Landscape
3:00pm-4:00pm
Intermediate

This session will explain the means used by Géo-Vision Avenir to lead to a “shared” dialogue for any building, landscape, or urban planning project. The available software improves communication and responsibility and allows an explanation of what happened and what will happen. After the information is input into a 3-D model and verified, the software enables the user to determine the impact of the project not only at delivery, but after five years or even 20 years. Adding this fourth dimension, the model becomes 4-D.

The technique, BDpaysage (literally “landscape data base”) will be described with its principles of data acquisition, precise modeling of site, architecture, and botanically correct plants. Different levels of details and types of presentations will be discussed to match the project’s logic and answer professional demands and public concerns. Examples will be drawn from projects of urbanism, city and country planning, parks and gardens, linear constructions and engineering structures, pits and landfills, and nature management. For more information regarding this session, please contact paysage@thebaud-tup.fr.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Learn about technology that enables you to observe within the existing landscape the impact of different     kinds of projects over time (delivery, five years, ten years, etc.).
2. Observe the technique BDpaysage (landscape database) that follows principles of data acquisition to     develop precise site models including topography, architecture, and plants.
3. View examples of projects at a variety of scales and sites.

Philippe Thébaud, architect and landscape designer, began his career with the French Public Facilities Ministry, then worked in the French overseas departments with various facilities and urban planning institutes. In 1974, Thébaud set up his own agency in Paris and, in 1986, created the city planning and landscaping firm Thébaud Urbanisme & Paysage S.A. (TUP). He also holds the position of landscaper on the state advisory board and manages the Géo-Avenir Co., specializing in the visual display of projects in geo-coded 3-D images. Working with the French National Geographic Institute, the Center for International Cooperation in Agronomy and Warm Climate Research, the Lullier Landscape Conservatory, and Géo-Vision Avenir, Thébaud set up this software.