{"id":2642,"date":"2012-10-23T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markstephensarchitects.com\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2012-10-23T15:26:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:26:02","slug":"it-all-starts-with-the-survey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markstephensarchitects.com\/it-all-starts-with-the-survey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It all starts with the survey&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written previously on the concept that <a href=\"http:\/\/markstephensarchitects.com\/2012\/02\/13\/it-all-starts-with-the-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\">the design must start with the survey<\/a> This was in the context of working on an existing house but the same can also be said about working on a blank site for a new house.<\/p>\n<p>The movie below is pretty interesting as it shows the OSi map with my survey data superimposed. What&#8217;s pretty cool is that the software (VectorWorks LandMark) can interpret the 3 dimensional spot heights and convert each of the points into contour lines and a meshed model of the site.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is where it all begins&#8230;<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61_HcP2PtPE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written previously on the concept that the design must start with the survey This was in the context of working on an existing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15,62,64,73,78,122],"tags":[432,777,815,1187,1258,1358],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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