CHURCH IN SITE (LAND AHOY)

 Sneak peek. I’ve been labouring away with Forma. It’s been a
while and saving was awfully slow. My Internet, the ridiculous extent of the
Hampshire map (for a Revit file)  I soon
realised that I needed to package the Forma data into a separate Revit file
then link it into the map. I was creating site context for St Laurence Woodhay
(by Blomfield) Turns out that there are rolling hills and valleys. Definitely a
new insight.

I changed the colour of the road subdivision, added a few
floor slabs to represent the churchyard, village plots, a lake. Set up some
assembly views of the church. Makes for a fun sheet with room for a couple of
photographs. Not finished yet. I want to populate the churchyard for example.
Put some indicative houses in the village. Make a massing model for Inigo
Jones’ manor house.  But it’s coming along.

 

Some process shots. In Forma you can capture a square from anywhere
in earth (maybe not the poles) and choose from various sources of data….

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