サイトー Blog #3 #ZoneOneSpring
4/28/26 #Tuesday
[[Working with Fusion]]
[[Working with Assemblies]]
[[Working with Groupings in CAD Programs]]
Hello Raihan Fabricates Audience,
It’s been awhile since I’ve written for this site. I’ve been able to utilize Autodesk Fusion a lot, in the past 3 months. Although I haven’t written for this site, my skills have improved. One of the things that I was always fascinated by, it’s the concept of grouping, that is also possible in Autodesk Fusion. This could be true in a lot of programs nowadays, but my starting point was with Autodesk Inventor. I got fascinated because I found it cool that you can group a lot of the parts, and make their own assembly files. One of the projects that I really got fascinated with was a building that I did, back when I was doing my Bachelor’s degree, in the city of Philadelphia. I was able to design a community based library, and I was always fascinated in regards to how to make it fully fabrication-able.
Back than, I didn’t have an understanding of how to make complicated buildings come to reality. I was always trying to understand how to make a perfect simple 2 story building, but when we were introduced, let’s say to 5 floors of circulation, with the concept that, let’s say 200 people would be circulating through this space at all points, to go through their days utilizing the space. This scope was hard to understand, when I first started studying architecture. Because, I initially got into architecture, with just the concept that I want to be able to work in the engineering architecture world, by being able to help people build simple buildings.
Though, when I started my bachelors, of course I was learning the foundation, thus, what I imagined, and what I was taught, it was really different. Though, now that I look back, I don’t think that was bad at all. Because, now, I can embrace what it taught me. It taught me to see that it’s not just a family that actually occupies a space, it’s loads of people, in an environment, where they can communicate and grow. At the end of the day, I love that the right architecture can enhance our ability to collaborate and grow as people. I believe architecture can be a fundamental source of strength, if built in the correct manner.
I think, we are so used to a specific way of building a structure, and it’s not that it’s easy to build a structure, but once we understand the assembly process and reach the understanding tipping point, the process of building the structure becomes easy, then we can actually really focus on creating a structure, that actually also rejuvenates the body and the mind. Thus, a space, not only allows for work to exist, but also allows for us people to live peacefully, by allowing fundamental support for all aspects of how human beings live. Being able to appropriately read, write, work, rest, sleep, all the functions that we take for granted, can be enhanced, with the right elements embedded into the enclosure system.
Thus, for me, I want to start small, but I want to start working on this in Fusion as well. The buildings that I have designed in the past, I want to make them come out, in fabrication-form, on this website. For me, working on the [[Philadelphia Community Library]], [[Tokyo Tourist Hostel]], and then the [[Bauhaus Technology School]], they all helped me realize that, we should support an environment, where the community can thrive, in the space that we create. And we have to give the people a chance to really embrace the space that is around them, in the safe space that we can help create, with sufficient knowledge.
Thus, for me, I am grateful that I have been able to create this website, with the help of my site manager, Rahim. I genuinely think we don’t really need a lot once something starts, and once we do believe in ourselves, it’s all about the slow implementation process, after the initial start. Meaning comes when we deliberately work on something, without questioning ourselves and having faith, and letting the unconscious guide us through the process. I genuinely am always looking for meaning, but working on something, and being able to showcase it, in a public setting, even if the chances of another person findingt is slim, I know if it’s out there, it will be seen eventually.
For me, life always seems to go super fast nowadays. But, I am also able to have a lot of fun, when I think about what is important, and when I reflect. This reflection methodology, when I don’t question what I am writing about, and having faith, that the process that I have created, it actually works itself out. And this has come about, because I have been able to consistently do this, for the past 4.5 years now. Moreover, the more I read, I get even more insights. Right now, I am reading the book, [[The Timeless Way of Building]], by [[Christopher Alexander]], and that really has helped me even more, as I have also read his book [[A Pattern Language]]. Thus, for me, I see architecture as a visual pattern language as well, and once it is enhanced, I genuinely think we can live in an even cooler world.
[[Critical Path]], by [[Buckminster Fuller]], it really also has impacted me. And I want to live in a community where we are able to share our work, and show the process. And it doesn’t have to be hidden either. If something works, I believe everybody should be able to utilize it. For me, the daily journal/blog system works. Moreover, every kind of community based ritual also has a meaning, a creating system, where when people come together, worth comes about, because we are aware that we are in the presence of others, other people that are not us. It’s incredible what we can think through, when we share, and we have confidence, that what we’re doing, it’s actually worth something.
