METAVERSE,+CAD+&+BIM+design

In this image I can see a very long street with cars of different sizes and colors. There are small red, blue and gray cars, and big white, orange and red trucks, too. The street has two directions with two lanes each one, so I can infer that this is an avenue with a fluid traffic. media type="file" key="Descriptive_Paragraph.wma" width="180" height="180" align="right"
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Also, there are five skycrapers with blue windows and gray walls. In this picture is night and the yellow lights of the avenue are turned on. There are too many people walking in the sidewalks, which is very wide. The buildings have tall trees, gardens with green grass and in one of the gardens on the right there is a sculpture.

**SUMMARY: From Atelier to E-telier: Virtual Design Studios.** Jerry Laiserin, author of “From atelier to e-telier: virtual design studios” describes the process by which it has done the Virtual Design Studios (VDS), that allow the interaction between architects and designers without geographical location problems.

Nowadays, the provided by the virtual allow students to attack the same design problem from different geographical spaces and share their criticism through the network, in addition to virtual visits. In this way, by the VDS, is possible to convert the design work in a single task n which each participant has their own opinion, or may by a multiple task in which the design problem is divided among the participants and each one is responsible for a part. On the other hand, this new technology also allows a synchronous communication with real time communication or media in which designers can work at different times. Laiserin says: “Virtual design studios (VDS) have the potential to favor collaboration over competition, diversify student experiences, and redistribute the intellectual resources of architectural education across geographic and socioeconomic divisions.” However, the question is whether virtual design studios isolate students or will provide them tools to reconcile communication environments and physical space. media type="file" key="summary.wma" width="150" height="150"

** METAVERSE ** 

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Nowadays, the world spins around the technology advances and the architecture and urban planning, too. For that, those careers have been developing a tool which allows the architects and urban planners make their work without geographical problems. That is why the metaverse represents one of the tools with more advantages in the globalize world. Also, through the text of Jerry Laiserin, Form atelier to e-telier: Virtual Design Studios, I have learned that this wonderful tool could permit that the students can share their experiences and their ideas, solve the design problems between more people, and make virtual visits. In the other hand, like the most things in the world, the metaverse has disadvantage too, because it does not allow the architects and urban planners explain by their self their projects, because the face to face interaction is more direct to transmit the complexities of architecture and urban design. However, the metaverse, absolutely, can contribute to architectural and urban design, because the advantages of this tool permit to the users overstep the geographical and communication limits, in addition to the fact that it is cheaper than traveling.

In my opinion, the VDS in one of the best tools in a globalized world, because those tools allow worldwide communication with people who have different thoughts and a great diversity of experience of design and architecture. Allowing you absorb new ideas waiting to be used. However, it’s important to note that certainly through nets and technology is possible to see a wider world, but it’s also true that face to face interaction is more direct to transmit the complexities of architecture and urban design

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** CAD vs. BIM ** **COMPARISON AND CONTRAST**

 Nowadays, with the technology advances of the world the designers have been creating all kind of programs of digital design for the convenience of architects and urban designers. Some of the most popular programs are CAD (computer-aided design) and BIM (building information modeling), and they permit to make the design progress easier than draw flats by hand. CAD is an electronic drafting tool that allows modeling structures, just like BIM, and those tools allow US to represent structures in two and three dimension. However, there are many differences between those tools, but the most important is that the new information in BIM can modify all flats, but in CAD it is necessary to modify the plans one by one. So BIM is easier than CAD. Also, in BIM the representation of the architectural works is more realistic than the CAD tools. But BIM is the newest tool so CAD is more used by architects and urban designers than BIM. 

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