This week, we’re featuring Robin Mercier Kuc, an independent 3D/BIM Design Consultant based in Connecticut. Kuc got her start in architecture, graduating with a Masters of Architecture from Columbia University, when analog drawings and plans still ruled architecture practices. But after taking some time off to raise her family, she returned to the architecture world to find that practices had transformed into digital.
In the modern world of architecture, she realized learning CAD software was the key to success. So she started taking courses in AutoCAD and Revit, and later taught herself 3ds Max. She also discovered another key to success—rendering in the cloud in A360.
“In a big project, cloud rendering can easily save me more than hours—it can save me days,” Robin says.
After mastering the software, Kuc began entering architectural competitions. She had created this featured rendering, “NY AIDS Memorial” in Revit, for a very large competition in 2012. Located on a challenging triangular site in New York, Kuc designed a translucent, curved wall with hundreds of votive lights embedded in it on a grid. The circular light cutouts in the walls were designed to echo the circular forms in the adjacent O’Toole Building of the former St. Vincent’s hospital.
Without cloud rendering, Kuc admits that she probably wouldn't have been able to submit the project—because it wouldn't have been done. Since the project relied on nighttime and twilight renderings to show off all the lights in the wall, it needed to be rendered with speed and quality.
“Cloud rendering is an important tool. If you have a lot of different tools at your disposal and they are fast and reliable, you can compete in a way that an individual could not compete 10 years ago. It gives me more of an ability to deliver the goods.”
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