Bexhill-on-Sea has long been a sedate English seaside town
on the South-East coast. Land ownership was dominated by the Earls De La Warr
who were also connected to colonial ventures in the New World, lending their
name to the Delaware River.
Recently I have been updating my model of the De La Warr pavilion, designed by
Eric Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff and one of the first manifestations of
Modernism in the UK. The site context was knocked together hastily in 2014 and
in need of a serious overhaul.
Sadly we can no longer edit toposurfaces with all the tricks and devices I had
acquired over the years, so I tried updating to a toposolid. It soon became
obvious that I needed better reference information. At this point I remembered
Forma.
This online tool has also changed since last I used it, but with a bit of a
struggle I managed to acquire a suitable portion of the map with contours,
roads and buildings. This exported to OBJ and linked to Revit. It’s no use as…