Walden 3-D, Inc. Designing Responsive Environments Copyright © 1991 090591 The Network: Walden 3-D is encouraging the growth of a multi-dimensional network

Walden 3-D, Inc.Designing Responsive Environments

Copyright © 1991090591

The Network:

The Network:

Walden 3-D is encouraging the growth of a multi-dimensional network of minds (diversified by profession, geography, ethnicity, experience, age, interest, etc.), andundertaking to focus the team on hermeneutics, or improving the world throughtechnology. This effort involves integration of information, which occurs through cooperation of individuals with a track record of encouraging and working of projectsthat make a difference. The first significant test was a remote slide-projector and phoneteleconference on 28 December 1990 (see the next page for participants), using the LYNK all purpose communication device. CompuServe, UUNET, video conferencingand other communication systems are being tested as viable medium for the network.

The LYNK synchronizes any number of identical audio-visual devices in remote locationsusing standard phone lines. This allows all participants see the same presentation simultaneously. It also allows a presentation to be given to a group in Singapore (oranyplace else you can call in the world) from the presenter's house in Houston (or fromwhere ever you can call). Duplicate copies of slides, video, optical or computer imagesare sent to each site in advance by overnight mail. Teleconference calls over standard telephone lines allow remote presentations and distance learning at minimum cost. The advantages of this system are great in that a single ordinary telephone line can be used to transmit both speech and visual command signals at enormous cost savings over video transmission.

Walden 3-D is encouraging the growth of a multi-dimensional network of minds (diversified by profession, geography, ethnicity, experience, age, interest, etc.), andundertaking to focus the team on hermeneutics, or improving the world throughtechnology. This effort involves integration of information, which occurs through cooperation of individuals with a track record of encouraging and working of projectsthat make a difference. The first significant test was a remote slide-projector and phoneteleconference on 28 December 1990 (see the next page for participants), using the LYNK all purpose communication device. CompuServe, UUNET, video conferencingand other communication systems are being tested as viable medium for the network.

The LYNK synchronizes any number of identical audio-visual devices in remote locationsusing standard phone lines. This allows all participants see the same presentation simultaneously. It also allows a presentation to be given to a group in Singapore (oranyplace else you can call in the world) from the presenter's house in Houston (or fromwhere ever you can call). Duplicate copies of slides, video, optical or computer imagesare sent to each site in advance by overnight mail. Teleconference calls over standard telephone lines allow remote presentations and distance learning at minimum cost. The advantages of this system are great in that a single ordinary telephone line can be used to transmit both speech and visual command signals at enormous cost savings over video transmission.

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Who participated in the first Lynk

teleconference?

Who participated in the first Lynk

teleconference? 92048

Alf KlavenessBill PrinceChris SchmidtSherry SumpRoice NelsonBill Rollwitz

Jean JacquesGrimaud

Rick Duran

Townsend Dunn

Medard GabelJim WalkerBill Bavinger

Bowen LoftinLaura PankonienCara White

Mic Patterson

Ray GardnerBill Klein

Gordon Young 28 December 199011:00 AM Houston Time

Lloyd Warner

Steve Starr

Chuck Edwards

Victor LamanuzziTracy Stark



Walden 3-D 's Vision:

Walden 3-D 's Vision:

Creating a multi-dimensional network of minds for planning 3-D Intelligent Cities

or, in other words,

Integrating information to simulate, demonstrate, and document living within the available cosmic-energy savings account.



Walden 3-D 's Mission

Walden 3-D 's Mission

To lead a revolution in urban planning through information technologies. The planned end result is the development of cost-effective and ecologically sound three-dimensional cities.

These new communities will provide the highest and best land use, juxtaposing a large building mass with nature to benefit both, while maximizing utilization of finite resources.

The projects will accommodate a greatly increased population compared to the population on an equivalent footprint in one of today's conventional housing developments.

The new complexes will use state-of-the art concepts in energy conservation, waste treatment and recycling. Living units will "plug" into an intelligent network providing residents with complete environmental control and access to information worldwide, encouraging information-based decision-making and scrupulous democracy.

To lead a revolution in urban planning through information technologies. The planned end result is the development of cost-effective and ecologically sound three-dimensional cities.

These new communities will provide the highest and best land use, juxtaposing a large building mass with nature to benefit both, while maximizing utilization of finite resources.

The projects will accommodate a greatly increased population compared to the population on an equivalent footprint in one of today's conventional housing developments.

The new complexes will use state-of-the art concepts in energy conservation, waste treatment and recycling. Living units will "plug" into an intelligent network providing residents with complete environmental control and access to information worldwide, encouraging information-based decision-making and scrupulous democracy.


Copyright © 1991090591The ObjectiveThe Objective

Tune the design so that the completed form system will perform optimally within the natural system

Design with nature and not away from nature

Eliminate all conflict between the two basic systems

Live with nature and not off nature



Site HierarchySite Hierarchy

ClimateHydrology

Legal

Physiography

Geology

Rainfall

WaterErosion

Wind

Contours

Rocks

UtilitiesSoil

Zoning

BuildingsNoise

ViewsAccess

Sunlight

Physical Characteristics

Drainage

Vegetation

Boundaries

EasementsZoning

Context

Temp./Hum.



Quote from The Laws of Form,

by G. Spencer Brown

"The theme of this book is that a universe comes into being when a space is served or taken apart.

The skin of a living organism cuts off an outside from an inside. So does the circumference of a circle in a plane.

By tracing the way we represent such a severance, we can begin to reconstruct, with an accuracy and coverage that appear almost uncanny, the basic forms underlying linguistic, mathematical, physical, and biological science, and can begin to see how the familiar laws of our own experience follow inexorably from the original act of severance.

The act is itself already remembered, even if unconsciously, as our first attempt to distinguish different things in a world where, in the first place, the boundaries can be drawn anywhere we please."

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ASI

ASI

ProvidingBuilt Formfor Walden 3-DProjects

ProvidingBuilt Formfor Walden 3-DProjects

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Advanced Structures Incorporated4094 Glencoe AveMarina Del Ray, CA 90292-5608(310) 301-1984E-Mail: [email protected]

Advanced Structures Incorporated4094 Glencoe AveMarina Del Ray, CA 90292-5608(310) 301-1984E-Mail: [email protected]

Advanced Structures Incorporated

ImplementingInnovativeBuildingTechnology

Mic PattersonPresident & CEO

Advanced Structures Incorporated

ImplementingInnovativeBuildingTechnology

Mic PattersonPresident & CEO



TheGap

The Information BridgeThe Information Bridge

Systemsof

Information

Deliveryof

Product

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What is the information equivalentto Henry Ford's Assembly Line?

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unlocking information barriers

Providing InformationHandling Solutions forWalden 3-D Projects

Providing InformationHandling Solutions forWalden 3-D Projects

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HyperMedia CorporationP.O. Box 382Barker, TX 77413(291) 579-0172FAX (281) [email protected]

HyperMedia CorporationP.O. Box 382Barker, TX 77413(291) 579-0172FAX (281) [email protected]



Philosophy of Data Access:

Philosophy of Data Access: 021092054

AudioAudio

Text interpretation:Text interpretation:Original Image in Database

Overlays to the Image

HotspotHotspot

HyperMedia Products: • Do not alter the original data • Do not require a data conversion • Reflect user terminology • Access extremely large amounts of data

HyperMedia Products: • Do not alter the original data • Do not require a data conversion • Reflect user terminology • Access extremely large amounts of data



Hypermedia TerminologyHypermedia Terminology

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HotspotsHotspots

HotspotsHotspots

Node 1Node 1 Node 2Node 2 Node 3Node 3 Node 4Node 4

Link

Link

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Hypermedia ConceptsHypermedia Concepts

- Hyper = Hyper-Links: a web of computer pointers connecting each piece of data with related data

- Media = Multi-Media: alphas, numerics, images, overlay interpretations, sounds, video, and simulations on the same computer screen

- Associative, non-linear interconnections of multi-media materials

- An ideal storage and retrieval system (collective memory) for - Historical data - Design information - Evolving plans a project of the scale and complexity of a 3-D intelligent city or the rural development of Colorado County

- A peripheral brain and user-friendly dynamic information depository

- Knowledge alive and growing: a knowledge construction set Dynamic compared to books, which are linear hierarchies frozen in time and space.

- Hyper = Hyper-Links: a web of computer pointers connecting each piece of data with related data

- Media = Multi-Media: alphas, numerics, images, overlay interpretations, sounds, video, and simulations on the same computer screen

- Associative, non-linear interconnections of multi-media materials

- An ideal storage and retrieval system (collective memory) for - Historical data - Design information - Evolving plans a project of the scale and complexity of a 3-D intelligent city or the rural development of Colorado County

- A peripheral brain and user-friendly dynamic information depository

- Knowledge alive and growing: a knowledge construction set Dynamic compared to books, which are linear hierarchies frozen in time and space.



Product Structure:Product Structure:

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PRESENTATIONPRESENTATION

AUTHORINGAUTHORING

Main Frame

DataData

Mini PC

Data

Hard Copy

HXCPACKAGED

HXCCUSTOM

CUSTOMERDEVELOPED

HyperbasesHyperbases

LAN

Data


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Corporate Structure

Executive

Knowledge Worker

Clerk

executiveinformationsystems

hypermediatechnology

automation



Solutions Approachfor the knowledge worker

Solutions Approachfor the knowledge worker

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Traditional HyperMedia Corporation

User

Applications

Technology

PD10%

User

Solution 1

10% PD90% NPD

Solution 2

Solution 3

90% NPD (Hard Copy)PD = Computer Processed DataNPD = Non-Processed Data

Peel the onion Build the onion



Current Customer

Environment

Current Customer

Environment021092058

90% Dataof Interest

IBM Mainframe

MiniTerminal

PS/2 orMacintosh

MainframeTerminal

KnowledgeWorker

Applications

Auto Access Manual Access

Hard CopyMini

DB2M204

Oracle

LANsCray

10% Dataof Interest



Target EnvironmentTarget Environment021092059

Application Layer

Mini

DB2M204

Oracle

Hard Copy(2,000 TB)

Video

LANs

Cray

Sound

Knowledge BasesKnowledge

Worker

HXC – HDE

1. Query (Class Menu)2. Surface (Author)3. Presentation (Viewer)

IBM Mainframe

100% Dataof Interest

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Walden 3-D, Inc. Designing Responsive Environments Copyright © 1991 090591 The Network: Walden 3-D is encouraging the growth of a multi-dimensional network