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A building has recently been completed close to where I live
and I was surprised the other day to notice that I could see
the roofline of this building above the roofline of some other
buildings closer to me. Had I known this in advance, I might
have taken more interest in the planning proposal.
So,
this
idea is that the planning proposal for large developments
should include a two-week period during which a life-size
model would be erected on site.
The model could be built
with bouncy castle, marquee or giant Lego block technology.
The inflatable church.
http://www.inflatablechurch.com/
It's a start. [st3f, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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That's quite an effort for a skyscraper. How about allowing the model to be a digital 3D walk-through? (If you standardized the data format and required them to release it, you'd quickly be able to stitch together a 3D model of your whole town. Might be quite handy). |
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Skyscrapers could be modelled cheaply (and
approximately) by beams of light pointed upwards into the
night sky. |
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But the original idea will tell you best how much of your view you'll be losing to the new monstrosity. Good idea. |
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//beams of light pointed upwards//
Don't see how this gives you a sense of the roofline of the building as your idea requires. The beams are just gonna keep on going as high as atmospheric conditions allow. |
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[krelnik] OK then, beams of light illuminating tethered
balloons. |
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Give everyone half-silvered VR goggles and add the skyscraper using CGI? |
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Nah, I want a *bouncy* skyscraper. If you can't build it in foam and inflatable sections, you shouldn't be allowed to build it. |
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(I assume that this will be for major development only. (?) I can't imagine the neighbours being very keen on having to build a bouncy conservatory before the real thing.) |
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The other reason I don't like the light/fog solution is it does nothing to give you a sense of the color/appearance of the proposed building. Thus you can't evaluate its aesthetic impact on its surroundings. |
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It might be easiest to require developers to model the altered view from adjacent properties and mail out customized still images during the planning stage. You can't bounce on that, but by the time a builder's bought and cleared the site (and invested in a mock-up) it'd probably be too late. |
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I'm not sure you'd have grounds for objecting anyway, though, even if the value of your condo drops by half after your view of the ocean is replaced with one of an identical apartment. |
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[st3f] - // bouncy skyskraper // - seconded. The uproar comes when the planning stage is over and it's time to take it down. |
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Yes, of course now I think about it, it would be possible to
model a skyscraper by sticking together lots of velcro-
covered helium-filled bouncy castles. |
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The alternative to a "bouncy castle" would be a hot-air-baloon design made of tailored, thin fabric in the same colour and design as the proposed structure. Thes could be preprinted before onsite assembly. The "hot air" design means that the fake building can envelop and enclose an existing structure without imposing any load on it. All you need are big gas heaters attached to the localk mains. |
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there is something, hmmm, something just almost perceptibly suggestive about that link [st3f] |
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there's the free for all Google SKETCH, which allows
simple Cubes 3D models, and viewpoints simulations,
to be had, at almost all PC's. Some use this software
semi-proffesionally, so a citizen's watch-dog group
could easily manage such a pre-view. |
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