Virtual Visible Views Project
In the ArchiCAD LinkedIn group, Michael Scarmack, AIA, recently started gauging interest in a global experiment using the ArchiCAD BIMserver that he’d like to conduct. There’s a lot of excitement about this grassroots project and I think it will lead to some big things. What things? I don’t know. But it is entrepreneurial experimentation and group collaboration like this that will bring our industry into the future and prevent our obsolescence. I have already signed up and intend to blog about the process. Below is an abbreviated project description from Michael Scarmack, AIA. You can follow this link or the one at the end of the post to sign up and be apart of this awesome experiment.
The GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD Collaboration Interactive Training Guide says “…if offices are in different time zones, arrangements can be made allowing the Project to be worked on around the clock so it can be delivered by deadline. The Internet solution makes all these things possible and feasible.”
Project V V V (Virtual Visible Views) is designed to put this to the test, with a global reach, in a minimum of 16 time zones.
It really is a demonstration project, not to prove to Graphisoft something known to its staff, but to give us bright and useful paths to conduct our commerce, science & art, collectively in an accelerated mission. Given the recent advances in the GS AC 14 BIMServer Teamwork 2 there is a real opportunity to add accurate online resources on project documentation in our profession.
We are now creating a global network of ArchiCAD users to work 24/5, to restore and create sustaining architecture, 1 hour a week, for 8 weeks in all standard time zones, for an experimental worldwide project. No immediate compensation for the eight hour effort is anticipated.
The objective is to demonstrate that Graphisoft – ArchiCAD BIM Server firms will become the first choice of building owners and developers utilizing this accelerated, accurate, ecologically minded project approach.
This is not today a tried and true approach, it is a healthy solution for some building issues we are encountering today.
Thank you …. |:-)
Michael Scarmack, AIA
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