Call for papers, Design Modelling Symposium 2024 in Kassel

 

The Design Modelling Symposium is a global interdisciplinary focal point for computational design in architecture, engineering, arts, and product design, with a history dating back to 2009. Previous editions of this prestigious event have been hosted in Berlin, Copenhagen, and Paris.

The Design Modelling Symposium Kassel 2024 is organized by the Department of Experimental and Digital Design and Construction (EDEK) and Institute for Structural Design (TWE) at the University of Kassel from 14-18 September 2024. The conference topic 2024 is Scalable Disruptors and a Call for Papers is in the details below. 

Call Areas:

• Area A: Realising Circular Design
• Area B: Scaling Digital Concepts
• Area C: Biomaterial Design
• Area D: Digital Construction

More information about area descriptions...

Important Dates:

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 29 December 2023
• Abstract Acceptance Notification: 29 January 2024
• Full Paper Submission Deadline: 29 March 2024
• Final Paper Submission Deadline: 10 May 2024
• Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 May 2024

Paper submission guidelines...

The Advisory Board 2024 includes Philipp Eversmann (University of Kassel), Christoph Gengnagel (University of the Arts Berlin), Julian Lienhard (University of Kassel), Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen (CITA - The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen) and Jan Wurm (KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture).

New Plugin for Wind Tunnel Simulations Released: Tdyn Wind Tunnel

Rhino Tdyn Wind Tunnel plugin

This plugin combines the 3D design capabilities of Rhinoceros with the smooth user experience and computational power of Tdyn Wind Tunnel.

The plugin allows you to perform CFD simulations in three simple steps:

1. Automatic export of geometry created and prepared in Rhino to Tdyn Wind Tunnel.
2. Definition of wind speed and symmetries.
3. Launch the simulation and view the results!

This plugin is perfect for anyone who can benefit from aerodynamic analyses, regardless of their expertise in CFD simulations or fluid dynamics knowledge, for example:

• Structural engineers seek accurate values of the wind loads.
• Architects and urban designers who are willing to assess wind behavior around urban areas/buildings or enhance comfort inside spaces.
• Designers (cars, motorbikes, etc.) looking for improved estimations of aerodynamic coefficient.
• Fluid mechanics teachers whose purpose is to provide more intuitive and specific educational tools and content.

Furthermore, CFD experts will also find in Tdyn Wind Tunnel an extraordinary ally that will drastically reduce the preprocessing, meshing, and post-processing times while minimizing the associated errors.

Working with Rhino Tdyn WindTunnel:

The first execution of the plugin will check if Tdyn WindTunnel is installed on the PC and will automatically download and install it from the CompassIS Website. In subsequent executions, the user will be required to introduce the passwords needed for the execution of the Tdyn Wind tunnel.

The Rhino plugin is free, and Tdyn WindTunnel currently offers the possibility of evaluating it for free with temporal passwords, which can be obtained from our password generator.

Get more information and download...

Digital Possibilities on an Island workshop

 

The Circular Factory (CF) and The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya (IAAC) invite you to participate in their workshop titled Digital Possibilities on an Island, scheduled for August.

Is it possible to generate high-quality architecture using local wood waste? Can we integrate digital technology with local craftsmanship?

This initiative aims to showcase the potential of robotics and computation in creating sustainable architecture in remote areas like Roatan, Honduras. By leveraging the collective expertise of The CF and IAAC, the project explores the possibilities of utilizing Roatan's raw, green, and untreated wood to design a structure inspired by natural geometries that serves the local community. The research seeks to culminate in constructing a 1:1 prototype gazebo in Roatan, employing computer vision, robotics, and untreated logs of green wood.

During the workshop, participants will use Rhino, Grasshopper, Speckle, Python scripting for computer vision, and ABB robots for the gazebo construction process.

To register:

Send your name, CV, and portfolio to alicia.nahmad@thecircularfactory.com or/and alex@iaac.net

Location: Roatan, Islands Bay Honduras

Date: August 12-26, 2023
Time: 9 am-6 pm daily (including classroom and fabrication lab hours).
Fee: 800 euros

For additional information,
please contact alicia.nahmad@thecircularfactory.com or/and alex@iaac.net

SAVANNA3D R7 with new SubD blocks

 

SAVANNA3D for Rhino 7 (SAVANNA3D R7) library contains over 1,600 detailed 3D architectural models in the 3DM file format, plus a few parametric Grasshopper definitions to create parametric models.

All these blocks are 100% NURBS, SubDs, or Grasshopper parametric definitions made in Rhino 7. Plus, discover the new blocks created for you; all are SubD models included in Chapter 7, which provides for cocktail glassware and lounge chairs.

Explore what's included in the SAVANNA3D R7 library by scrolling down to the curriculum section and preview how to use the blocks + get around 40 free blocks from the library by downloading Chapter 2.1 for free!

View the catalog here!

Subscribe to the SAVANNA3D R7 library to download the entire library; it's yours to keep for as long as you like. Please refer to the License Agreement. The subscription includes all 1,600+ blocks plus any new blocks added sporadically during the twelve-month subscription. 

Enjoy 20% off with coupon code: RHINO3DEDUCATION20 at checkout for a limited time!

Python Camp by PAZ Academy

Python AEC Camp

August 23-25

Unlock the power of Python for your architectural and engineering projects in this immersive 3-day workshop with PAZ Academy.

Designed specifically for professionals in the BIM world, this course will introduce you to Python programming fundamentals and its integration with Rhino and Grasshopper. Integrate Python with your normal day BIM software and learn to speak the IFC language. Dive into data science and Python to get the maximum advance in your architectural and engineering projects. High doses of humor empowered by ChatGPT-4! ; )

More info + registration

Rhino New Developments Day at STF London (April 25, 2023) - applications close on Tuesday, April 18

Applications close on Tuesday, April 18!

The Rhino New Developments Day (London, April 25, 2023) is geared towards people and organizations interested in extending Rhino’s functionality through Grasshopper or new development frameworks such as rhino3dm, Rhino Compute or Rhino.Inside, and external plugins.

There are many new revolutionary technologies available this year surrounding Rhino. Many of these technologies are opening up new workflows and previously impossible possibilities. Get a jump on understanding what McNeel has been working on and how it might help move your office's workflow forward. Learn about extending Grasshopper, Rhino, ongoing web technology projects that can be deployed anywhere, and the unbelievable Rhino.Inside integrations allowing you to bring Rhino and Grasshopper into almost any workflow you have.

Get up-to-the-minute information on what we have been working on as we explore together what is possible.

Meet the people developing these technologies to understand how they work and what might be possible.

The "Rhino New Developments Day" is by invitation/application only. Everyone interested in attending must fill in this form.


Once completed, we’ll review your application and confirm whether a place at the Development Day is available. We will email everyone who applies for a place as soon as possible.


The Rhino New Developments Day is separate from the Shape to Fabrication Conference. But of course, attendees may wish to also join the Shape to Fabrication conference on the following two days at the same venue. Find out more and buy your ticket for the Shape to Fabrication conference.

VisualARQ Webinar and Online Course

Last week's Rhino3D.Education webinar, Modelado Arquitectonico BIM con VisualARQ, by Francesc Salla, is ready for watching, En Español!

If you couldn't join us live or want to rewatch or share the webinar, you can do so here!

Francesc Salla, architect, a specialist in parametric design, and Product Manager of VisualARQ and Lands Design at Asuni, showed us how VisualARQ integrates intuitively into the design process with Rhino and Grasshopper, with the shortest learning curve and thus generates any type of freeform architecture.

Check out Salla's free online course, VisualARQ, Flexible BIM Tools for Rhino.

Le Corbusier's masterpiece, The Villa Savoye, is the model selected for this course. It is a step-by-step guide explaining the architecture modeling workflow with VisualARQ and Rhino. Students will learn about the different VisualARQ commands and features.

Enroll now!

You can follow this course with just a little Rhino experience. However, most videos focus only on VisualARQ features, and we recommend you take this free Rhino Introductory course.

VisualARQ webinar in Spanish

   

Join Rhino3D.Education in a free live webinar, "Modelado Arquitectonico BIM con VisualARQ," by Francesc Salla.

Register here!

VisualARQ is an architectural BIM software that works as a plugin for Rhino. It adds architectural features to Rhino for working with powerful associative objects, dynamic documentation tools, and collaborating with other programs with IFC file import and export capabilities.

VisualARQ adds powerful architectural object styling and dynamic documentation tools that adapt to your workflow. It is for Rhino users and professionals in architectural fields such as architects, interior designers, and developers.

Francesc Salla, architect, a specialist in parametric design, and Product Manager of VisualARQ and Lands Design at Asuni, will present this webinar. He will show us how VisualARQ integrates intuitively into the design process with Rhino and Grasshopper, with the shortest learning curve, and thus generates any type of freeform architecture.

When? Thursday, March 30, 2023.

Time? 10 am (EST) - Miami time zone
Where? Online live-stream via Zoom

Free with prior registration
The webinar will be held in Spanish.

Register now! 
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

If you can't make it, we keep recordings of our webinars so you can replay or watch them again!

Watch Rhino3D.Education's whole collection of free podcasts and webinars. 

Questions? Contact Lucia Miguel at lucia@mcneel.com

Check out Rhino3D.Education for the latest courses on Rhino, Grasshopper, and more!

Grasshopper for Beginners workshop by Parametric Architecture - March 11-12

Parametric Architecture has organized a Grasshopper for Beginners workshop that will take place on March 11-12, 2023.

Grasshopper for Beginners 1.0 is a weekend-long workshop that teaches the core principles of Grasshopper and provides the foundations for further advanced courses over two sessions. At the end of the course, students will have a solid knowledge of the fundamental principles and tools required to utilize Grasshopper properly. This course will give an excellent beginning place for your adventure into the world of Grasshopper, whether you are an architect, designer, or enthusiast.

Complete details and registration...

 

Rhino New Developments Day at Shape to Fabrication - London, 25th April 2023

The Rhino New Developments Day (London, 25th April 2023) is geared towards people and organizations interested in extending Rhino’s functionality either through Grasshopper or through new development frameworks such as rhino3dm, Rhino Compute or Rhino.Inside and external plugins.

There are many new revolutionary technologies available this year surrounding Rhino. Many of these technologies are opening up new workflows and previously impossible possibilities. Get a jump on understanding what McNeel has been working on and how it might help move your office's workflow forward. Learn about extending Grasshopper, Rhino, ongoing web technology projects that can be deployed anywhere, and the unbelievable Rhino.Inside integrations allowing you to bring Rhino and Grasshopper into almost any workflow you have.

Get up-to-the-minute information on what we have been working on as we explore together what is possible.

Meet the people developing these technologies to understand how they work and what might be possible.

The "Rhino New Developments Day" is by invite/application only. Everyone interested in attending must fill in this form.


Once completed, we’ll review your application and confirm whether a place at the Development day is available for you. We will email everyone who applies for a place as soon as possible.


The Rhino New Developments Day is separate from the Shape to Fabrication Conference. Of course, attendees may wish to also join the Shape to Fabrication conference on the following two days at the same venue. Find out more and buy your ticket for the Shape to Fabrication conference.

Shape to Fabrication London - AEC Conference, Workshops and Dev Day (April 22-27, 2023)

Shape To Fabrication London (organized by SimplyRhino UK with full McNeel support) is back! And this will be the best edition ever, with AEC & Computational Design workshops and a Developer Day, during the same week as the conference! April 22-24: Shape to Fabrication Workshops delivered by industry leaders and supported by Rhino developers, McNeel, include AEC Workflow Automation with Speckle, Robotic Fabrication with Zaha Hadid, Integrating Rhino and Revit for design with Rhino.Inside.Revit, Pollination Rhino Plugins, and more! April 25: Rhino New Dev Day for people and organizations interested in extending Rhino’s functionality through Grasshopper or through new development frameworks such as rhino3dm, Rhino Compute or Rhino.Inside and external plugins. If you know someone who should be attending, let them know so they may apply for their place. April 26-27: Shape to Fabrication Conference New presentations announced for the 2-day main conference, including Xylotek, Metron, Arup, Zaha Hadid, and PLP Architecture... with more coming soon. Don't miss your chance to grab an Early Bird ticket for the main event - Early Bird tickets finish on 27th February! Each event needs its own registration, so click on the links for complete info...

Python AEC course by PAZ Academy

 

PAZ-Python-AEC

PAZ Academy (Parametric Academy Zurich)

 Python AEC is a full-day Python course for architects, engineers, and BIM professionals. Analyse, optimize, and automate with Python your typical day AEC workflows!

February 23 - PAZ Central

Learn more...

Rhino for Beginners workshops by Parametric Architecture - starting January 2023

Parametric Architecture has organized a series of Rhino for Beginners workshops, the first one taking place January 28-29, 2023.

Rhino for Beginners 1.0, which will last the entire weekend, is a course on Rhinoceros for beginners. It will cover basic 3D modeling terminology and tools. By the end of the workshop, students will understand how to use the Rhino software to create their own 3D models. They will also have a foundation for learning more advanced techniques. The material covered in the workshop will be reinforced through exercises and small design challenges during and after the workshop.

Complete details and registration...

PAZ-Rhino.Inside.Revit

 PAZ-Rhino.Inside.Revit
PAZ Academy (Parametric Academy Zurich)

The end of static and the beginning of dynamic models.

Rhino.Inside.Revit brings the power of Rhino and Grasshopper to your Revit environment for all the projects-and project-phases.

February 16 - Online
March 23 - PAZ Central
April 20 - Online
May 25 - PAZ Central

Rhino and VisualARQ online course for architects (February 2023)

Rhino and VisualARQ online course for architects by Asuni

February 2023

Rhino + VisualARQ

• Rhino: 6, 7, 9 February 2023, 16h-18h (UTC+1)
• VisualARQ: 20, 21, and 23 February 2023. 16h-18h (UTC+1)
• Language: English
• Price: 360€+VAT (Students 50% off – Proof of educational status is required.)

VisualARQ

• 20, 21, and 23 February 2023, 16h-18h (UTC+1)
• Language: English
• Price: 180€+VAT (Students 50% off – Proof of educational status is required.)

This course is for architects and architecture professionals who want to get into BIM technology with Rhino and VisualARQ.

This course will introduce the main tools of Rhino and VisualARQ for developing projects of architecture in 3D, producing 2D documentation drawings, and delivering a BIM model for other AEC applications.

If you don’t know Rhino, you can take the entire course distributed into six sessions of two hours each, starting on February 6, 2023. However, if you are familiar with Rhino, you can skip the first course and just take the VisualARQ course, consisting of three sessions of two hours each, starting on February 20, 2023.

Complete details and registration...

 

VisualARQ webinar: Flexible BIM tools for Rhino every architect should know (January 12, 2023)

VisualARQ webinar

Flexible BIM tools for Rhino every architect should know"

January 12, 2023, at 5 PM UTC+1

This webinar will cover an overview of the “Flexible BIM” features VisualARQ adds to Rhino and Grasshopper for developing a project of architecture inside Rhino, producing the 2D documentation drawings, and delivering a BIM model for other AEC applications.

You will learn:

• How to work with smart parametric architectural objects.
• How to efficiently produce 2D drawings of your project in Rhino.
• How to generate custom dynamic BIM objects driven by Grasshopper (also known as “VisualARQ Grasshopper styles”) with unlimited design options.
• How to automate many modeling tasks through the VisualARQ components built for Grasshopper.
• How to add and manage custom data to geometry and list it in schedules.
• How to deliver BIM models and collaborate with other tools through the IFC import/export capabilities and Rhino.Inside.

The webinar will take around one hour, including Q&A.

Free registration here...

AROUND - Global 3D Design Festival by Gravity Sketch (November 9-12, 2022)

AROUND - Global 3D Design Festival by Gravity Sketch
November 9-12, 2022

Our friends from Gravity Sketch have organized AROUND, a global design festival meant to provide a space for the creative community to get inspired and learn from each other around 3D workflows.

They have an impressive line of speakers, some of them showing the workflow Rhino-Gravity Sketch (check the agenda).

During the breaks, visit the McNeel virtual booth to learn more about SubD, "ask me anything", "new in Rhino WIP", etc.

Complete details and free registration...

SIGraDI 2022 Conference

Join the SIGraDI 2022 Conference hosted by Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (Lima, Perú) School of Architecture and supported by the SIGraDi Executive International Committee (CEI) and the SIGraDi Advisory Committee (CA).

The conference will provide numerous article presentations, panel discussions, and keynotes related to Rhino and Grasshopper. Here are some of the papers that will be presented:

Form finding with flexible concrete materialization with the addition of agro-industrial pozzolans

 Parametric modeling applied to landscape design: simulation as a tool for defining tree stratum

Investigation of indoor daylight performance of the two-sided roof monitor system solution space

Open-source responsive solar tracker performance evaluation: a comparative study

City information modeling (CIM) applied to urban planning: the urban indicator of reachness

The Use of Parametric Mapping as an Analysis Method in Contextual Design Studio

Wikihouse: a parametric approach to generate different spatial arrangements

Conference: November 9-11, 2022

Register at SIGraDI 2022

 

Complete Rhino Guide For Beginners course launched by 'I Am The Studio'

The Complete Rhino Guide For Beginners illustrates the foundation of design and modeling within the Rhino 3D environment, taking students from beginner to intermediate level in the principal functions and methods in Rhino and Grasshopper while creating a beautiful architecture project.

Course Introduction

The Complete Rhino Guide is a series created by registered architect and founder of the I Am The Studio platform—Brandon Aaron Gibbs, AIA—to give designers a comprehensive creative+technical foundation with modeling and design in Rhino.

New designers in Rhino often get lost in modeling after a few steps because they lack the foundation and a creative approach to applying modeling techniques. In this beginner’s course, students will be immersed in the technique and design within the Rhino 3D world, learning about the various geometries, functions, drafting, and parametric capabilities to start Rhino projects. Students will then develop an architectural project with Voronoi parametric surfaces to be documented in orthographic views—rendering the project in the latest V-Ray.

New or intermediate students in Rhino will appreciate the up-to-date skills in Rhino and Rhino plugins from this course, where they will get key insights and workflows to manage and create beautiful designs in the Rhino environment.

Learn more and register for a free course subscription to I Am The Studio course...

PAZ - AEC Training Center (Central Zurich)

PAZ Central AEC Training Zurich

Paz Academy is back and they have a new training center in Zurich Central with a delicious PAZ AEC Menu. Their first course will take place on October 13 and is Rhino & Grasshopper. 

October is Structural Calculation Month, so don't miss the unique courses and cultural events:

• October 18 - Karamba 3D. Parametric structural engineering.
• October 26 - Unfinished Spaces. Cuban film projection with AFTZ.
• October 28 - Building System Specialist Graduation with the four heroes from VAN AKEN Netherlands.

More surprises and events...