CADD 2001 Hogwarts Project:

This page by the HPI is provided to give you some summarized details on the 14 week Hogwarts CADD 2001 Project done by the students of Professor Langdon's CADD classes in Boston, Massachusetts. Please note these images were posted with permission of Professor Langdon, are un-official and are academic excercises, just like grade school crayon drawings of the Potter characters .

What they are required for the project are:

• A web site opening to the house banner designed by the student
• A walk through animation of the project
• The 3D CADD files used to create the images

Students Involved:

Students of the classes involved are from the Interior Design program at Mount Ida College and Endicott College:

Mount Ida Students - Jenifer Melvin, Lisa Bourget, Benika Kawarabayashi, Miguel Ortiz, Yoshimi Sato

Note: The students were required to read the HP Books before starting work.

Scenes that are being created:

Required by students: (each students does all six)

Castle Tower,Common Room,Professor's Office,Classroom,Attic,Dungeon

Common Spaces : (Students do only one of these five, to develop with a colleague)

Great Hall,Library,Infirmary,Dumbledore's Office,Hagrid's Cottage,Quiddich Field and Stadium

Required Detail Objects : (each students does all seven)

Fireplace,Table,Chair,Door,Window,Light,Staircase,Banner

Professor Langdon Explains the project:

Professor Langdon described the project to me:

"This summer I am refining and combining the various models (which you currently see only the preliminary images of) into a huge conglomerate of the entire castle as well as cottage outbuildings. I anticipate this will grow to encompace even the surrounding villages over the next few years. The first animation, of the Great Hall, is a 15.3 meg animated gif file -- somewhat too large to post online, so we have it only on CD for now. The other animations are still only preliminary"

"Our students do enjoy being able to dynamically "walk through" the virtual reality castle models - something we cannot yet transmitt readily through the web - but we will continue to create various renderings for all to enjoy."

Professor Langdon has informed us that eventually (when finished) all the work will be submitted to Graphisoft (a world wide competition for the best college work done with their Archi-CAD software),  They distribute the results (with QuickTime VR and animations) on CDs.

For more details and images on the project please go to the archi-cad website