I recently discovered and now fully adopted using a free open source software program called Blender for 3D modeling. After watching many YouTube tutorials on a new feature called Geometry Nodes I was motivated to make a geometry node for creating stadium or bleacher stairs. You can download this Stadium Stairs Blender Geometry Node from GumRoad for free (enter $0 for the fair price). I plan to focus my Blender ArchViz exploration of stadium stairs within the interior settings of residences and large co-living spaces. A link to my Pinterest MultiFunction Stadium Stairs board with inspirational pins of outdoor and indoor stadium stair examples from around the world.
I am a retired federal civil servant, tech geek, and conceptual design artist, planning to share some of my retirement journey and activities here. My main gig these days is volunteering at Dorothy Day House in Berkeley, California. On days I don't volunteer, I will try to stay healthy and young by learning how to dance a very exhausting looking genre called Cutting Shapes or Shuffling. An end result would be posting some video clips of my moves on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Instagram. Stay tuned to follow me on those platforms.
Living in California, you're exposed to its housing affordability and homeless problems. Since I live in a university town, I'm very influenced by the array of college living that goes on nearby, from dormitories, to housing co-ops, fraternities, sororities, off-campus apartments, shared homes, and room rentals. I thinkĀ a mashup of these college living situations blended into the broader long term realm of social housing can be a solution to our housing crisis. I plan to express these social housing ideas using newly acquired ArchViz skills in Blender here. More to come...