A group of students and faculty used the Trimble Lab resources for their Tactile Learning Project.
The Project is a masonry structure that showcase different types of masonry construction, block types, brick patterns, and mortar joints for WSU students. It provide students with an easily accessible model to study how such structures are designed, detailed, and constructed. It also offers an opportunity to instructors to offer more specific information masonry construction techniques.
Kaity Maines, a graduate student of architecture at Washington State University, who joined the team in 2021 to lead the modeling and design work, found the Trimble Lab resources to be “user friendly, helpful in site design, and quick in its scans.”
The TX8 Laser Scanner from Trimble is an incredibly easy tool to use. . . . This scanner made modeling the site between Carpenter Hall and Daggy Hall infinitely easier than having to go and take measurements of the entire area. Due to the laser scanner taking accurate measurements, I was able to draw over the model to create walls and surfaces I needed. It also has a real-world color option. This way you can see what material colors are at the site.
The project was funded by the Concrete Masonry and Hardscapes Association (CMHA); formerly the National Concrete and Masonry Associate (NCMA).