Model Making:

In 2008, Fred Van Brandenburg approached the OID/PDC for assistance with the CAD modelling of his architectural designs for a project in China.

Fred had begun his project using Solidworks, a CAD package designed for engineering/industrial design; but his designs were proving too difficult for the traditional architectural CAD software.  

Fred’s methodology is more aligned to the product design process, where physical prototypes are used throughout the entire design process. The methods and tools at the PDC are therefore ideal for this type of project. The PDC 3D models have also been invaluable in communicating Fred’s designs across the language barrier with Chinese clients, both from aesthetic and structural/engineering viewpoints.

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Summary of Interactive Engineering:

The Survival Factor museum project was initiated as a collaboration to design, develop and produce a major interactive science exhibition.

Consisting of 15 individual exhibits, this is built on the theme of the automatic responses of the human body, to illustrate the human biological response and reactions to external and internal stimuli.

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