About ME Dimitri James Blazos
CAD
My name is Dimitri, I am a current student of Melbourne University studying a Bachelor of Environments. I began my journey at a polytechnic school in 2010, studying a Bachelor of Architecture. I familiarised myself with freehand drawing, drafting, model making, sculpture, AutoCAD etc. After completing my first year, I transfered interstate and studying Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Canberra. Here I further studied design and architectural history, also taught myself Revit to help with the conceptualisation of my designs. In Canberra our design focus was to not treat physical models as something precious, rather as a tool for improvement. This involved moving parts, cutting and glueing. After completing a semester in Canberra and finding out I was accepted into the University of Melbourne I packed my bags and headed home. After completing second semester 2012, and having to do first year core subjects I further learnt more about computer design. Virtual Environments taught me a lot about Rhino which allowed me to create forms which would have been much more difficult in Revit or AutoCAD.
Freehand drawing has always been something I have used in the inital stages of conceptualisation. In partnership with models , simple forms I find are much quicker to do by hand which I guess had become an intuitive part of my designing. After completing Virtual my perception began to change, about the usefullness of CAD in the conception process. With plug-ins such as Grasshopper, the manipulation of a form can help to simulate that of freehand drawing, which I believe is a very useful tool.
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