Online Level 2 Rhino Course begins June 2nd

Image credit: Kyle Houchens, The Outside

Our Level 2 Rhino 5 online course begins next week. The class is scheduled for June 2-12. We still have a few seats available if you'd like to register. The course has been updated for Rhino 5 and will consist of seven sessions, a brief orientation on Monday followed by six half-days of Rhino 5 training.

Dates/Times:

• Orientation: Monday, June 2, 9:00AM -10:30AM
• Training: Tuesday-Thursday, June 3-5 and June 10-12, 9:00AM - 1:00PM
  Note: All times listed are Pacific Daylight time zone. Calculate your time zone.

All sessions are instructor-led and will be recorded for later viewing.  If you cannot make a session, watch the video and catch up before the class meets again.

Sign up today!

Parametric Analysis of eNergy and Daylight Tools

Project Director Colin Schless presents Thornton Tomasetti's Rhino/Grasshopper-based, concept-level sustainability analysis platform called PANDA, or Parametric Analysis of eNergy and Daylight Autonomy.

Watch the video and learn more...

Bongo 2.0 Service Release 3 now available

Hi all,

Bongo 2 SR 3 is now available from:
http://www.rhino3d.com/download/bongo/2.0/commercial

The complete list of changes in this Service Release can be found here.
Enjoy!

AA Greece Visiting School

AA Greece Visiting School
Architecture Department, University of Patras
Patras, Greece
September 22 to October 1, 2014

AA Greece Visiting School is a mobile workshop series which will travel and reach every other city outside the country’s capital. It functions as a ‘satellite’ of education that promotes the Architectural Association’s exclusive, intensive form of teaching and learning around the country. AA Greece VS aims on visiting a different city each year and construct a single large-scale model which will act as an active nod of communication among the various locations.

In 2014, the School will initiate its design agenda with an architectural approach that is focused on the aspect of connection. The city of Patras, which is the starting node of AA Greece VS, was chosen by the European Commission to be the European Capital of Culture for the year 2006. The concept of the event revolved around the main theme of "Bridges" and "Dialogues", drawing benefit from the city's rich history and its position as a "Gate to the West", to underline the essence of the productive interaction of culture and civilizations in Europe. The AA Greece Visiting School investigates how well existing buildings with various sightlines and variant spatial grammars perform according to human perception. In sync with the flexible and adaptive concept of parasitical structures, the research focuses on the making of transformable large-scale creations that accentuate prominent architectural features of existing buildings. The research looks at how cultural factors, specific preferences, experiences, and expectations can lead to the transformation of architectural parasitical structures.

Details and registration...

Orca3D at Navalia (Vigo, Spain)

Navalia

Vigo, Spain

May 20-22, 2014

Partners Vera Navis, Portugal, and NDAR / Design Systems & Technologies, France, will exhibit this year at Navalia (Stand # B08), showcasing the latest versions of ShipConstructor 2015, Orca3D, GHS (GeneralHydroStatics), ShipWeight, AutoFEM, and MAESTRO.

Orca3D is the marine design plug-in for Rhino, offering extensive, specific tools for marine surface modeling, hydrostatics (including Class criteria checking), weight control and hull resistance.  Orca3D is integrated with GHS and interfaced to ShipConstructor.  Orca3D is interfaced to AutoFEM and offers a MAESTRO pre-modeller.

Further information can be found at www.ndar.com

Founded in 1988, NDAR / Design Systems & Technologies, France, works in the marine industry sector since 1988, offering software and related training and consulting services.  NDAR currently serves over 1500+ customers in the EMEA region.

Vera Navis, Portugal, a naval architecture, marine engineering and design oriented company, are active in several ship and offshore projects internationally.  Vera Navis offers vast ship building and surveying experience, and partners with NDAR/Design Systems & Technologies in offering software and related training and consulting services.

Performance Aided Design (PAD) Summer School in Aalborg (Denmark)

Aalborg University 

Woven + Reciprocal wooden structures

Performance Aided Design (PAD) Summer School

July 28 - August 15, Utzon Center, Aalborg, Denmark

The aim of the summer school is to apply new design tools in the field of reciprocal wooden structures. The design tools involve parametric design based on the application of Rhino and Grasshopper (PAD: Performance Aided Design)

The summer school's goal is to develop an experimental 1:1 scale prototype of a novel system that sits at the boundary of the typologies of woven and reciprocal structures, particularly promising concerning material and constructional efficiency.

The focus will be directed on the joint development and on the design and manufacturing of an architectural body whose formal appearance is determined by the specific properties of the material in use and by the response to an extensive array of performance factors.

Finite Element Method, iterative loops, in-house developed Grasshopper plug-ins, and physical models will be used while constantly looking and learning from the traditional culture of building in wood.


The application deadline extended to May 31st

Complete info and registration...

AAG 2014 London - Call for Workshops

Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014 

London, UK

Sep 18-21, 2014

Advances in Architectural Geometry / AAG is a symposium where both theoretical and practical work linked to new geometrical developments is presented. This symposium aims to gather the diverse components of the contemporary architectural tendencies which push the building envelope towards free form and respond to the multiple current design challenges. It involves architects, engineers, mathematicians, software designers and contractors. We aim at connecting researchers from architectural and engineering practices, academia and industry. AAG has become a reference in the professional field and is supported by the direct participation of the most renowned architectural design and engineering offices along with academic laboratories.

Workshops

Researchers and professionals are invited to electronically submit proposals for full length workshops or short tutorial sessions in the area of Architectural Geometry, to be held September 20-21, 2014 at the University College London. We especially encourage our paper submitters to also communicate their findings in hands-on learning oriented sessions, and hope to receive a number of workshop submissions which give the participants in-depth and hands-on experience of the forefront of research. Workshops which are pure software tutorials are discouraged. We are particularly interested in workshop topics having to do with but not limited to:

• building performance and resource use in relation to building geometry
• generative design
• integration of geometric and non geometric design properties
• fabrication constraints and their impact on building geometry
• qualitative and quantitative evaluation of building geometry
• recently published advanced geometry concepts and techniques in architecture, engineering and computer graphics introduced to an interdisciplinary audience.

All proposals will be reviewed and evaluated and authors will be notified when their proposal is accepted to discuss requirements and logistics.

Call for Workshops details...

FluidRay RT 1.0.2 released

Just released - FluidRay RT 1.0.2 real-time renderer.

Features include:

• Runs on CPU - No GPU limitations
• With Rhino 3DM support
• Support for heterogeneous media and Dreamworks
  OpenVDB for 3D textures
• Much faster ambient occlusion (up to 16x)
• Faster PathTracerIntegrator 
• Fixed some bugs causing crashes
• Improved library icons

FluidRay and Rhino video...

Temporary special pricing...