Record setting 3D printed installation—bECOme by Arturo Tedeschi

On December 2, 2021, Adidas opened the doors of its most sustainable flagship store to date under the motto Renew Berlin. The three-story, 1400m² store stands for regionality, sustainability, and the brand’s deep roots in sports. 

The store features the project bECOme, a 3D printed installation created by designer Arturo Tedeschi (@arturotedeschi) using more than 300 kg of recycled plastic. The suspended 17-meters long sculpture symbolizes the urgent commitment to turn waste into resources, passing through different transformation processes. It also expresses an attitude that considers plastic-waste-ending a mission through communication, education, and daily actions. The sculpture itself is a sustainability statement as it was made using recycled plastic turned into PLA filaments implemented in the printing process.

Rhino and Grasshopper have been used to create the original 3D model used for further development and 3D printing.

Credits:

• Project title: bECOme
• Where: Adidas Flagship Store Berlin
• Design: Arturo Tedeschi
• Fabrication: F.G. Meier GmbH
• Finishing: Sebastian Eberlein
• Photos: Hannes Jahreis

Read more about the project...

Rhino and Grasshopper development services by 4D Pipeline

4D Pipeline provides custom plugin development, file format support, API services, and consulting to help organizations extend Rhino's capabilities and integrate it seamlessly with their existing tools and workflows.

4D Pipeline can help with:

• Custom Rhino/Grasshopper plugin development
  Building specialized tools and automation workflows that extend Rhino's native capabilities for specific industry needs
• File format support and integration
  Implementing importers, exporters, and translators for proprietary and industry-standard formats, including USD, IFC, ESRI, and custom CAD formats
• Rhino.Inside integration
  Embedding Rhino's geometry engine and Grasshopper into other 3D applications, enabling NURBS modeling and parametric design within host environments
• Render engine integration
  Connecting third-party renderers and visualization tools with Rhino, including GPU-accelerated ray tracing implementations
• Enterprise workflow automation
  Streamlining design-to-production pipelines with custom scripting, batch processing, and system integrations

Services

• Custom Rhino and Grasshopper plugin development
• File format importer/exporter development
• Rhino.Inside implementation and integration
• Rhino Compute implementation and integration
• API development and system connectivity
• Workflow automation and scripting
• Custom UI/UX for design tools
• Digital pipelines and interoperability consulting
• Bespoke Grasshopper components, scripts and parametric tools
• Relevant Experience
• Rhino Grasshopper automation project with adidas
• NVIDIA raytracer integration into Rhino
• USD implementation for Adobe, Turbosquid, Epic Games, and others
• IFC support (IFC4 & IFC4x3) using OpenDesign libraries for Customers like ESRI and others
• Raytracing/renderer Integrations for Lumion, Enscape, and AMD
• Datasmith and interchange connectors (including for Rhino) for Epic Games and others

4D Pipeline details...

food4Rhino webinar: Digital Footwear Creation with Botcha x Rhino (28 February 2024 at 5 PM CET)

food4Rhino webinar: Digital Footwear Creation with Botcha x Rhino

28 February 2024 at 5 PM CET

This webinar will focus on the suite of tools available in Botcha x Rhino for efficiently creating shoes in Rhino 8.

Quickly start from a last, flatten it, and begin modeling it in 2D, then map it back to 3D. We will showcase all the tools available at your disposal and the workflows that we have developed. Creating digital twins in footwear helps reach sustainability objectives and improve communication between designers and suppliers. We will demonstrate the quality of realism that you can achieve inside Rhino with the help of Botcha.

Speakers:

Alberto Franco is a software architect at design&develop and supervises the development and direction of BotchaxRhino and Jevero. He is a computer scientist working in computer graphics and CAD/CAE since 2009 and joined design&develop in 2015 to start a new business unit dedicated to creating software tools for footwear.

- Trenton Jones is a Project Manager at design&develop and is in charge of BotchaxRhino. Trent has a degree in industrial design from Arizona State University and has worked for adidas' Advanced Creation Technology team for more than six years, after his time at adi he joined design&develop in early 2023, supporting both software projects and footwear development.

Watch the webinar live on YouTube...

Add the webinar to your calendar via LinkedIn...