Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium - Al Ain

Stadium of the Year 2014 winner, Public Vote #10, Jury Vote #1
Location: Al Ain, UAE
Design: Pattern Design Ltd.

For the Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium, the facade's conceptual design was developed primarily in Grasshopper, as was the generation and sight line analysis for the bowl. Grasshopper was also used in later stages of detail design to rationalize the unique facade panel sizes.

The roof's sweeping form was modeled in Grasshopper. The roof was continuously analyzed for structural stability, daylight penetration, and thermal and solar performance. This ensured that the final design was the most structurally efficient option to meet both the shading and architectural needs.

PhD scholarship in integrating building physics for performance control - IaaC

Applications open // PhD scholarship in integrating building physics for performance control at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC)

InnoChain is a 4-year international research network for highly motivated young scientists, where state-of-the-art research combines with a comprehensive training and secondment programme. The network is funded by the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon 2020, under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network scheme.

The research network assembles a highly cross disciplinary team of experienced researchers drawn from architecture (CITA/KADK (coordinator), Bartlett School of Architecture, Institut d'Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya and Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan) and engineering (Universität Stuttgart/ITKE and Universität für Angewandte Kunst Vienna/IOA) and leading industry partners (Foster + Partners, White Arkitekter, BIG, HENN, ROK, Cloud 9, Buro Happold, str.ucture, designtoproduction, Smith Innovation, Blumer-Lehmann, S-Form, Factum Arte Desarrollos Digitales and McNeel Europe).

This call is for a 3-year PhD Scholarship that is fully integrated within the network. The PhD student will be enrolled at IAAC-UPC. It is our ambition that the PhD will start in September of 2015.

Details...

Singapore National Stadium, Singapore

Stadium of the Year 2014 winner, Public Vote #8, Jury Vote #3
Location: Singapore
Design: Arup Associates, DP Architects

The Singapore National Stadium's architecturally appealing roof structure is comprised of a series of 3D triangular trusses. For this design, Arup needed to fully integrate both the architectural and structural design. They established a common interface to transfer the parametric intelligence between the various software. Software that included Digital Projects, Rhino, and Oasys GSA (Arup's structural analysis package). The linking optimized the roof's form with the varied truss depths, layout to arch rise, and other geometry defining parameters. With this efficiency, the team could iterate through the varied possible design solutions.

Arena Corinthians, Sao Paulo

Stadium of the Year 2014 winner, Public Vote #4
Location: Sao Paulo
Design: CDC Arquitetos / DDG Arquitetura

Arena Corinthians was the home of the opening ceremony for the World Cup 2014 in Sao Paulo. The 3D design of this entire structure, with its parts, were realized with Rhino.

Other design details include a west facade of a mosaic of curved glass panels fixed to a special system of blocks and stainless steel cables, designed to absorb wind pressure. The east facade of glass structural panels is embedded with LEDs, for illuminated information and signage.

LastElf new features

LastElf has announced two sets of new features:

New features for verifying two lasts:

• 2D section comparison
• 3D last comparison

These features can output the comparison results easily and quickly.

New features for orthopedic lasts and customized lasts.

More about LastElf...

Videos...

PatternElf released

PatternElf is a new footwear plugin for Rhino 5 developed by DES. PatternElf has two design procedures, 3D/2D and 2D Only.

3-D/2-D

• Reverse engineering for shoe lasts, meshes to NURBS.
• 3-D last flattening, halves design procedures (Merge, Length, Spring, Lasting).
• Imports ImagineElf3D files, creates 2D halves / 2D curves / 2D patterns automatically.
• Drawing curves on 3D lasts, 2D halves, or simultaneously.
• Pattern design by Pattern Engineer (same with 2D Only design procedure).

 

2-D Only

• Designs 2D sketch on halves.
• Creates 2D patterns from 2D sketches.
• Pattern design by Pattern Engineer
• Object-oriented pattern design (Allowance, Stencil, Notches...)
• Object-oriented pattern morph (Spring, Match, Straighten, Crease...)
• Process (History) editor.
• Exports to cutting machine. (HPGL format)

More details...

Videos...

Intermediate Grasshopper Online Training

Join us for Intermediate Grasshopper Online Training

24-27 March 2015

Instructor Andres Gonzalez explores the intermediate concepts of generative modeling in Rhino 5 using the Grasshopper add-on. He will apply these concepts to Grasshopper intermediate design and development numerous in numerous real-life examples with you. This course is for design professionals who are looking to efficiently learn concepts and features of Grasshopper at an accelerated pace in an instructor-led online environment.

This course requires Intro to Grasshopper training or equivalent.

Space is limited. Register today!

Schedule

Orientation with GoToTraining - Tuesday 24 March 2015, 9:00 am-10:30 am

Class Sessions: 25-27 March 2015 9:00 am-1:00 pm (PDT)

Online Price: US $215

All times listed are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT, Seattle, WA, United States)

Maria Chiara Virgili, Maxwell Render Xpert

In her article on the Maxwell Render blog, Rhino trainer, Maria Chiara Virgili, explains how she uses Rhino and Maxwell Render to recreate the interiors of a chain of pizzerias in Italy.  

When asked why she uses Maxwell, she says, “Maxwell is the most realistic render machine I’ve ever used, the organization is simple and I don’t have to waste too much time guessing values—it is all very self-explanatory. It’s not difficult to create a material from scratch or specific textures, and the same goes for the lights, which are truly exceptional…The customers love to see projects in the most realistic, virtual way as with Maxwell, frequently confusing them with real photo shots. It is amazing to see their surprise when they discover that these are not photo shots!!”. Read here for the complete story...

Maxwell Render comes with the Rhino plugin (for Windows).

Rhino 5 for Mac users can already use Maxwell through the Maxwell Studio workflow. 

Lands Design WIP XII

Lands Design for Rhino is a software for designing gardens, green spaces, and landscapes that run in the Rhino environment.

Lands Design provides tools for producing technical drawings in 2D and 3D of the green space to work with, and realistic images and virtual tours through the project to perform.

Lands Design is ideal for landscape architects, urban planners, town council technicians, constructors, designers and draftsmen, environmental departments, nurserymen, gardeners…

Check what's new in Lands Design WIP XII...

CL3VER 3.0 released

Palo Alto, March 11, 2015.  CL3VER, the cloud-based platform for interactive 3D presentations, has released CL3VER 3.0. This new platform generation is dedicated to engineers, architects, and other design professionals. CL3VER 3.0 is a much improved version of the CL3VER platform that includes WebGL GPU-based real-time lightmap technology, V-Ray material support, and a new scene sharing system that speeds up the production workflow for cross platform interactive 3D presentations.

Download the Rhino to CL3VER 3.0 plugin from food4Rhino...

New service release for RhinoGold 5.0

New RhinoGold 5.0 Service Release 1

Just one month after announcing RhinoGold 5.0, RhinoGold has a new service release!

A few of the improvements are:

• Improved integration with the new Dynamic Cap, in many different places.
• New Pave improvements, with Automatic, Intercalate, and Linear fill options.
• Keyframe Animation added.
• Bug fixes.
• See more details in the complete list of the improvements.

You can update two ways:

• Download directly from your RhinoGold.
• Download from the TDM Solutions web site.

Tecnológico de Monterrey - Campus León

Tecnológico de Monterrey - Campus León

Authorized RhinoFabStudio

The University Tecnológico de Monterrey, located in León, Mexico, offers educational programs in their RhinoFabStudio León.

Xavier Martinez is the Director of the Industrial Design Program of the University. He gives a great explanation of what the degree is about in this video.

Visit their RhinoFabStudio León site which is a place were they share and display the work of their students.

For more information, please contact Xavier Martinez or call +52 477 710 9000.


What is a RhinoFabStudio? A RhinoFabStudio™ (fabrication studio) is a small-scale digital workshop, certified by McNeel, with an array of Rhino and Rhino compatible software and computer controlled tools and training. These tools cover the various leading-edge industrial methods and materials needed to design, analyze, and fabricate almost anything.

Grasshopper D+O+F at McNeel Miami

Grasshopper D+O+F at McNeel Miami 

March 11-12, 2015
8 am-5 pm
US$495 per person

Course description
This workshop will give students a functional understanding of Grasshopper and parametric design. This will allow them to build on this understanding into more advanced projects of their own including design optimization and data-driven design.

 
Rhino Level 1 training is required to be able to take this training.
Details.


Location
McNeel Miami
1538 NW 89th Court
Miami, FL 33172
United States


To register
Email: Jackie Nasser
Phone: 305 513 4445

Rhino 5 for Mac webinars

SimplyRhino UK has organized a series of free webinars featuring Rhino 5 for Mac:

• Setting out 2D and 3D Curves - Wednesday 18 March 11.00 am
• Creating Surfaces - Wednesday 15 April 11.00 am
• Adding Detail - Wednesday 13 May 11.00 am

Details and registration...

Online Level 2 class starts next week

Image credit: Kyle Houchens, The Outside

Our Level 2 Rhino 5 online course begins next week. Have you registered yet? We still have a few seats left. Sign up today to secure your spot!

Dates/Times

• Orientation: Monday, March 9, 9:00 am-10:30 am


• Training: Tuesday-Thursday, March 10-12 and March 17-19, 9:00 am-1:00 pm
  Note: All times listed are Pacific 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.

Register now...