Category Archives: 3D Model

3D Model, Design

Interactive 3D Model

You control the horizontal and the vertical…

Ever since I started making digital models, I have been looking for a way to share them with my readers. Not static images, but models you can interact with; zoom in, rotate and move around. There’s something about actually manipulating a model that gives you a real sense of it as a three dimensional object.

After much research, I found a way to do this!

For my first, but not last, interactive model I have taken a piece of my affordable housing prototype model. You don’t need special software, just free Adobe Reader. And most computers now come with Adobe Reader installed. Click on “Continue reading” and the model will load.

PATIENCE It takes about 20 seconds for the model to load.

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3D Model, Architecture, Design, Elmer House, Schindler

RM Schindler’s Elmer House, 1952 (unbuilt), Conclusion part 5 of 5

Loose Ends miscellaneous things worthy of comment

Windows

The windows in the Elmer House are an unusual late Schindler design. They are unframed pieces of glass, with glued-on handles, that slide in grooves in the frame like the doors of a china cabinet. (fig 1) I first noticed this Schindler window in the original Shulman photos of the Erlik House, at the Getty Institute web site. I was excited to see them, still in use, in the Skolnick House.(fig 2, handles have fallen off) An interesting way to radically simplify window construction.

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3D Model, Architecture, Design, Elmer House, Schindler

RM Schindler’s Elmer House, 1952 (unbuilt), Form, part 4 of 5

Form/Packaging

Thanks to Linda Theung for letting me use her photos of the Kallis House. (figs 5 & 7) Photos are copyrighted by Linda, all rights reserved.

Thanks to Dale East for letting me use his photo of the Kallis House (fig 6). Photo is copyrighted by Dale, all rights reserved.

Thanks to Chris Jepsen for letting me link to his wonderful googie website.

Thanks to Tom Lundin and his wonderful ModMidMod site for letting me use his Biff’s digital model to create my night-time image 8.

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