ETF-001 - Explore the Floor with the Digital Technology PPN

1.00 PDH, LA CES/HSW

The Explore the Floor sessions at the ASLA Conference on Landscape Architecture offer attendees the opportunity to learn about new and improved techniques and how these improvements and services can help to create successful design projects. This guided walk on the EXPO floor will include the exhibitors: Coldspring, PlanIT Impact Inc, Street Furniture Australia, and Vectorworks.

Coldspring
Computer Numerical Control (CNC) technology has made its mark on stone design and fabrication, providing numerous benefits to those who take advantage of its capabilities. Advancements in technology such as CNC machines helps designers bring to life inspiring creations with exact precision once thought impossible or too costly to achieve. As a result, designers are expanding their creative limits with CNC.

PlanIT Impact Inc
The presentation will focus on making the case for green infrastructure. Performance benefits, cost savings, maintenance, and other topics will be touched on for green roofs, rain gardens, swales, etc.

Street Furniture Australia
Augmented reality (AR) allows landscape architects to envision and experiment with design elements, such as site furnishings, as three dimensional images overlaid onto the real world. This rapidly developing technology can be a valuable tool for specifiers, to examine the macro view and details of products alongside physical samples. It can also be used to help clients visualize your design vision. Join our AR app workshop to experiment with using drag-and-drop components to configure a seat, select the size, form, materials, finishes and colors, then use photo-realistic AR mode to bring your tailored furniture to life on your screen. Take the app to sites to examine how furniture can be placed for your project, for greatest aesthetic effect and to best suit the needs of the community.

Vectorworks
Todd McCurdy, PLA, FASLA, will share a landscape architect’s BIM workflow on a mixed team where the architects are using REVIT. This specific project is a new restaurant in a pedestrian entertainment zone where planting, steps and ramps, grading and drainage are all part of the landscape architect’s scope. In this case being presented, the quality of the images from the landscape architect’s landscape-specific BIM file, incorporating IFC files from the architect, proved better and as such, were utilized for all the project images submitted for design direction with the owner.

Learning Objectives:

• Coldspring: Understand the traditional and cutting-edge technologies that have re-shaped the way we design today. Learn through a case study example how CNC technology helped achieve complex design visions with stone. Understand how CNC technology controls the design concept from development through fabrication.
• PlanIT Impact Inc: Compare the performative and financial aspects of green infrastructure compared to gray infrastructure. Summarize the benefits of a data-driven approach to landscape architecture. Examine green infrastructure in the wider context of policy (consent decrees, smart cities initiatives, etc.).
• Street Furniture Australia: See how technologies such as augmented reality could disrupt and enhance design activities such as specifying furniture, as part of the smart cities movement. Explore how to use augmented reality as a tool for specifying. See how to tailor your own furniture suite and evaluate it using augmented reality, and consider the benefits of sharing your design vision with your office, collaborators, and clients.
• Vectorworks: Show how to set up files for collaboration success. Show how to import the architectural model and use it to your benefit. Show how to share your model back to the system. Show how to create your own plants in 2d and 3d.