Researcher
Politecnico of Torino

Fabrizio Valpreda was born in Turin the 26 of august 1967.
He became architect in 1996, in Politecnico di Torino.
There he took the road of digital communication in architecture and design in late 80's.
Researcher in Industrial Design from 2005 he teaches in the Corso di Studi in Disegno Industriale, Facoltà di Architettura 1, Politecnico di Torino.
He is teacher and project leader in one of the virtuality modules in Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Design del Prodotto Ecocompatibile, Facoltà di Architettura 1, Politecnico di Torino.
He likes and plays tennis, loves and drives his motorbikes.
None of the above mentioned things could have any meaning without Paola.

Open Source & navigazione real-time

One of the most important value in the digital approach to planning is the chance to explore what we have in mind about the project itself.
3D modelling offers different tools to reach this aim, however it is very complicated creating user-friendly navigable virtual environments.
Commercial software are often so difficult to use, very expensive and they create some problem in the management, especially in the academic world.
Open source philosophy offers different tools to produce what we have in mind, 3D included.
Blender is a tool that has everything needed to produce this kind of results: modelling, rendering, lighting, texturing and stand-alone realtime navigation tools for every operative system in commerce.
This whole process is possible with Blender with an extremely easy procedure, with no programming skills needed, letting architects/designers’ minds free to focus on their final project.