Rhino, Grasshopper and Kangaroo for a Magic Garden

The Magic Garden installation by Mamou-Mani is part of the Regent Sreet Windows Project 2013 organized by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). It has been designed with Rhino, Grasshopper, and Kangaroo to animate and link all the store windows with one beautiful fluid form. Using digital and physical techniques, the architect has shaped light-diffusing polyamide mesh fabric to maximize its structural qualities and interact with the mannequins. The result reflects the precision of both tailoring and architecture and the color and lightness of the Karen Millen SS13 collection.

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Organic inspiration

Using the concept of a whale's backbone Canadian architect Andrew McConnell has created the Vertebrae Staircase, modeled entirely in Rhino and T-Splines.

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ArquiBio Workshop in Coimbra University

ArquiBio 2013 – Coimbra, Portugal – May 13-18

ArquiBio is a series of international lectures and workshops on topics of architecture and design linked with the Bio-Logic. It is intended to allow lecturers and visiting scholars to obtain a convergence between current Bio-Logical and Architectural knowledge, bringing light to recent advances in this field.

The workshop agenda includes lectures of Rhino, Grasshopper, Galapagos, Kangaroo, Rabbit, etc.

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Upcoming training and events in South Africa

SimplyRhino South Africa is pleased to announce the following Rhino User Meetings and Rhino trainings in 2013:

RHINO 5 LEVEL ONE 2 DAY COURSE - CAPE TOWN Monday 22nd & Tuesday 23rd April, 9 am to 4 pm
RHINO USER GROUP - CAPE TOWN Thursday 20th June, 4 pm – 6 pm
RHINO 5 LEVEL ONE 2 DAY COURSE - CAPE TOWN Wednesday 17th & Thursday 18th July, 9 am – 4 pm
RHINO USER GROUP - JOHANNESBURG Tuesday 25th June, 4 pm to 6 pm
RHINO 5 LEVEL ONE 2 DAY COURSE - JOHANNESBURG
Wednesday 26th & Thursday 27th June, 9 am to 4 pm 
RHINO USER GROUP - JOHANNESBURG Tuesday 4th September, 4 pm to 6 pm
RHINO 5 LEVEL ONE 2 DAY COURSE - JOHANNESBURG
Thursday 5th & Friday 6th September, 9 am to 4 pm

Group sizes are limited.
Please register by email to Cathy
cathy@simplyrhino.com

Job opening at One to One

A passion for precision

One to One specializes in bespoke geometric computation, precision 3D-CAD construction, integrative CAM fabrication and innovative R&D at all scales.
One to One is always looking for motivated and talented programmers with Rhino, RhinoScript and/or OpenNurbs experience.

More details or apply with resume ...

PointCrowd: Rhino.Python workshop

PointCrowd: Python Scripting Workshop

May 11-12

Brooklyn, NY

Rhino 5 is here and with it comes the ability to script in Python! In this weekend workshop, attendees will learn how to start producing useful, creative, and interesting scripts on their own. Python is a simple and intuitive programming language, no previous coding experience is necessary for this course, just a familiarity with Rhino.

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Neon, real time viewport raytracing for Rhino 5

Neon, the free fully raytraced viewport plug-in for Rhino 5, is up to 4 times faster with the new Caustic ray tracing accelerator PC boards.

The Caustic R2500 board for high-end workstations is US$1,495. The Caustic R2100, intended for upgrading a wider range of mid-range and higher workstations, is US$795.

For more details, see the article in Desktop Engineering.

To try the new cards, stop by the Caustic stand (44) at Develop3D Live in Coventry, England on 16 April 2013.

Download Neon (free)...

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Footbridge designed in Grasshopper

Cyprus Competition:
2011 - 1st Award
Architect: Elina Pattichi
Client: The Municipality of Pafos City

This proposal for a footbridge on the Tasos Papadopoulos Avenue won the first prize in the competition in Pafos, Cyprus.

The design of the footbridge ensures safe pedestrian and cyclist circulation between the adjacent schools and the residential areas. It also creates a public landmark for this problematic boundary between the adjacent neighborhoods because of the wide avenue.

The unique characteristic of this proposal is that the construction method aims to integrate the bridge’s circulation with the support system of the footbridge. The stairs and the ramps become an integral part of the footbridge support system and are sculpted together with the main horizontal deck (95 meters long and 3-6 meters wide). So the footbridge behaves as a curved cantilever. This sculpting method is highlighted by the transformation of the landscape as the bridge foundation pushes the ground to create the steps and sitting areas on the ground. The circulation on the ground determines the landscape design with sitting areas.

In the middle of the bridge, the corridor becomes wider while the hole pattern becomes denser. This gradient of the pattern is a result of Grasshopper which aims to highlight in a macro-scale the circulation intersection in the middle of the bridge and in a micro-scale the position of the holes on the metallic panels which decrease the panel’s heat capacity, weight and wind loads and create positions for the lighting on the ground.

The bridge was modelled in Grasshopper.

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