Drawing in the third dimension: what does it mean? What does it look like? Today we’ve rounded up some of our 3D renderings. Drawing in the third dimension is an important component of how we represent our work and our ideas to our clients and colleagues.
Today we’re looking at images of the new courtyard under construction at Boston Children’s Hospital for bone marrow transplant patients and their families. As part of the design process, the 3D images were generated to communicate the concepts and experiences to the client, nursing and doctor staff. Beginning with base AutoCAD drawing files, 3D models were developed through Sketch Up and the final images rendered with 3ds Max and post processed with Adobe Photoshop. Through this process the design team and client used the images for further development of artwork and seek and find experiences for the patients.
What kind of 3D work are you doing?
Related Links:
Spotlight on Children’s Hospitals
Boston Children’s Hospital
Contributors:
Santiago Garay
David Hamel Jr.
Brian Carlic
The 2025 OpenLAB Boston studio work will be exhibited at Virginia Tech Monday, March 2nd through Wednesday, March 4th.
Please join us for the following events on Monday, March 2nd:
11:00am - Lecture with Parke MacDowell
1:00pm Lobby talk with Kevin Sullivan
This year’s studio identifies seven sites along the frayed edges of Boston’s Greenway. The Greenway is a one-mile-long linear park running through the heart of the city, reconnecting downtown Boston with its waterfront. Many of the parcels along its edges remain undeveloped and present mute, blank facades to the public realm. Addressing and repairing these edges through acts of infilling, layering, grafting, framing, and placemaking is the core focus of the studio—SUTURE.