"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

Be Keen

Yesterday, with a sumptuous lunch, we concluded the first session of what we call the MasterKeen, with amazing people whose names and work I want to share with you. More information on the master can be found here.

– The Program –
The structure of our program comes from a simple assumption: you can’t do anything without knowing the instruments that allow you to do what you want to do. This is true for manual work just as much as it’s true for philosophy: the nature of such instruments change but still you need to be able to tie your running shoes before you can actually start running. This is especially true when instruments are complex and BIM-enabling software tend to be very complex instruments. This is why we start with an introductory lesson (by yours truly) explaining the main goals and then my colleagues proceed in teaching Revit for quite a lot of time.
Simone Pozzoli is our star, our brave tutor, the guy who stays with them practically all the time, throughout the whole learning curve.

Learning Curve

Especially here

Emiliano Segatto is the host of the show and we have other guests and some of them are especially well known.

.MasterKeen - Emiliano Segatto MasterKeen - Drink Up.


1. Attendees
Our students came from all over Italy and some of them from very far away. One of them came all the way from Switzerland.
We had the 25% of girls, and the 62.5% of them was born in the 80s.

MK1_Data

Their names are:
– Paolo Roberto Rossi
– Bruno Grossi
– Enrico Mazza
– Antonio Scalise
– Giacomo Colombini
– Lorena Morselli
– Francesco De Matteis
– Dalila Cavallo
– Alessia Andreotti
– Igor Bonsi
– Diana Fullin
– Lorenzo Verbanaz
– Francesco Carandente
– Matteo Nativo
– Francesco Pallottini
– Matteo Gianninoto
The majority of the works you’ll wee in these pages is their work.

2017-02-01 15_32_33-Venngage _ Editor

Our students came from all over Italy

 

2. Showreel: The Integrated Project

MK1_IntegratedProject_LorenaMorselli

Architectural Model by Lorena Morselli

MK1_ModelBreakdownHypothesis_Structure

Structural Model by Enrico Mazza

MK1_RAIformula_BrunoGrossi

A calculation of air/light efficiency using a “yourmother” formula by Bruno Grossi


2. Standards: how to survive them

MK1_ReplaceSheetName

Within Revit, when you have to work in a systematic way you often have to think Dynamo: this one was to compile the sheet number with parameters accordingly to BS 1192…


3. Going Level 2: how to Collaborate

MK1_ModelBreakdownStructure_FrancescoDeMatteis

Model Breakdown Structure by Francesco De Matteis

MK1_ModelBreakdown_MatteoNativo

Another Model Breakdown Hypothesis by Matteo Nativo

MK1_ModelBreakdownHypothesis_EnricoMazza

Model Breakdown Hypothesis by Enrico Mazza: the typical floor


4. An Attempt at Level 3: Share Data

MK1_Flux_001

We picked a site in San Francisco (because we could) and got it through the Flux Site Extractor

MK1_CoronaHeights_Leopold01 MK1_ModelBreakdown_Flux

A portion of the Building by Francesco Carandente / Model Breakdown in Flux by Paolo Roberto Rossi

MK1_CoronaHeights_Leopold02

A flow in Flux to calculate efficiency, also by Francesco Carandente

Test for Dashboard

The first Experiment

Send to Dashboard

Sharing of the prototype through Flux

Dashboard

Further experiments, assembled in a Flux Dashboard

The Final Result

The Final Result

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