Grasshopper: A Modeling Software Redefining The Design Process (by Parametric Architecture)

"Grasshopper was created in a perspective to extend in those area where Rhino could not! It is a versatile plugin that takes design complexities to a new-found level by exceeding the limit beyond Rhino. Although, Rhino is a strong software tool in itself that has the capability of editing, analysing, and dealing with some of the most intense of architectural design and detailing."

Read here the complete article by Parametric Architecture...

food4Rhino webinar: Rhino.Inside BricsCAD BIM - July 29 at 5 PM CEST

Rhino.Inside BricsCAD® BIM. Where generative design meets BIM automation.

Explore parametric design variants with Rhino’s Grasshopper through BricsCAD® BIM, a strong .dwg based BIM platform. Move from concept to BIM in a fresh new way, with the unique combination of Rhino, Grasshopper, and BricsCAD® BIM. This seamless integration will take your generative design and free-form modeling to new levels. Discover how the Rhino.Inside® BricsCAD® BIM workflow enables you to create and iterate free-form or generative designs. Then transform your design into a data-rich Building Information Model from within your Grasshopper script. Or complete your workflow with integrated AI tools, such as BIMIFY that do the work with the click of a button. Join us to experience design freedom with a 3D workflow, not limited by pre-defined parts or library components.

Speaker: Fleur Dooms, BricsCAD BIM product specialist, brings her natural talent and enthusiasm for technology to Bricsys. Her passion is to pass on her expertise to anyone who even considers saying the word “BIM” and she is constantly looking for innovation and improvements. If you ever need someone to listen to your next great BIM or generative design idea, feel free to drop her a line!

Rhino.Inside Bricscad BIM on food4Rhino... 

Watch the presentation on youtube live on July 29th at 5 PM CEST... 

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MPDA BarcelonaTech Information Session - June 28, 2021

Andrés Flajszer

The Master Parametric Design in Architecture of UPC School in Barcelona is a unique opportunity to critically review computational design towards a more challenging and self-demanding commitment to environmental constraints.

MPDA is an international program that seeks to teach and explore technology efficiency. It is oriented to integrating computational tools and digital manufacturing technology in building systems and architectural design. 

MPDA focuses in:

• Design and optimization of lightweight building systems, mainly through form-finding processes, including tensile architecture
• Generation of efficient form by efficient means: guiding computational thinking and tools to the simplification of processes and material efficiency
• Integration with professional workflows and industrial standards, although keeping a wide space for experimentation, research, and industry-oriented innovation

This 60 ECTS one-year intense master's degree offers a comprehensive approach training in advanced architectural creation, oriented to efficiency in buildings and commitment to the environment. The course opens with practical digital and physical workshops on parametric software, geometry, and numerical control machines, solving real problems in complex architectural design. The second semester explores real applications through performance-driven design to create interaction and synergies between parametric design and other disciplines such as BIM, urban design, planning, construction, structures, installations, services and climate to obtain more efficient and sustainable results.

It's taught in English at the UPC Barcelona Metropolitan School of Architecture, where its Model Workshop, Digital Laboratory and Technology and Innovation Research Team CODA supports students exploring all the possibilities of parametric design. Students will benefit from a Rhinoceros license during the master, apart from intensive workshops on the most powerful specific plugins and topics: Kangaroo2, Octopus, Karamba, K2Eng, Kiwi3D, Millipede, Honeybee, among others. The program is well known for its intense series of lectures and workshops with internationally leading experts on computation and construction.

MPDA2022 is blended learning: 10 months online and 1 stage phase of 1 month intense Barcelona Experience

Register now for an information session that will be held at 02:30 PM CET on Monday 28-06-2021.

Ph.D. positions at ICD, Uni Stuttgart

The chair for Computing in Architecture, led by Tenure-Track Prof. Thomas Wortmann at the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) at the University of Stuttgart, invites applications for two open positions.

The positions are associated with the Cluster of Excellence Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture (IntCDC) and offer the opportunity for a (publication-based) Ph.D.

Grasshopper skills are a must, skills with C# or the Grasshopper—Archicad Live Connection preferred.

Find out more here!

Work with VisualARQ Grasshopper styles in Revit with Rhino.Inside

This video (tutorial) shows how to work with the VisualARQ Grasshopper styles (VisualARQ objects driven by Grasshopper definitions) in Revit running VisualARQ inside Revit.

This connection lets you work with the VisualARQ parametric objects directly in Revit, which are generated as Revit’s Furniture object types.

This workflow is possible with the VisualARQ Grasshopper components, which let you retrieve the geometry and data of VisualARQ objects and connect them with the Revit components (available in Grasshopper with the Rhino.Inside tool), and thus regenerate all geometry and data live in Revit, as native Revit Furniture object types.

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INDESEM.21: DATASCAPE - International Design Seminar (May 29-June 3, 2021)

INDESEM.21: DATASCAPE - International Design Seminar

May 29-June 3, 2021

INDESEM (International Design Seminar) is a biennale founded by a group of students in 1962 and reinitiated in 1986 by Herman Hertzberger. The biennale is hosted at the faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of the Delft University of Technology.

The program of the INDESEM seminar week consists of lectures, excursions, and a workshop, all organized around a specific contemporary theme. Every edition of the seminar aims to raise awareness about this theme and its consequences for architectural practice. The seminar provides an environment in which students, tutors, architects, and theorists engage in conversation and discussion about the current and future position of the architect within society.

INDESEM 2021: ‘DATASCAPE’

Today, the built environment is rapidly becoming an intersection between the physical and the digital worlds. The rise of the digital world is challenging the traditional design process. Data influences many aspects of our lives, from the ads we see on our social media feeds to the music recommendations on our Spotify pages. Every action, feeling, and step taken in the buildings we design can now be quantified. However, the impact of Big Data on our physical spaces remains unclear. How could data—about how people live, breathe and move through the projects we create—influence our future architectural designs?

INDESEM.21 offers you the chance to have personal conversations with architects at the forefront of the digital revolution, for example, a lecture by McNeel (Rhinoceros). Other speakers announced are Norman Foster (Foster + Partners), Patrik Schumacher (Zaha Hadid Architects), Ben van Berkel (UNStudio), Winy Maas (MVRDV), Kim Herforth Nielsen (3XN), Caro van de Venne (Barcode Architects), Wessel van Beerendonk (Studio RAP), Georg Vrachliotis (Professor Theory of Architecture and Digital Culture), Lennaert van Capelleveen (ArchiTech Company) and Sanne van der Burgh (MVRDV).

There will also be a lecture by Verena Vogler (McNeel Europe) about new Rhino and Grasshopper frameworks (Rhino.Inside, Rhino.Compute) and EU Research projects.

INDESEM has had the honor of hosting internationally acclaimed architects such as Aldo van Eyck, Adriaan Geuze, Rem Koolhaas, Wiel Arets, Ben van Berkel, Winy Maas, Daan Roosegaarde, Jean Nouvel, Shigeru Ban, Steven Holl, Greg Lynn, Peter Cook and Renzo Piano, and theorists such as Saskia Sassen, Bruno Latour, Anthony Vidler, Neil Leach and Michael Speaks.

Organization

INDESEM is organized by a student committee, consulted by renowned faculty professors. Herman Hertzberger, Wiek Röling, Michiel Riedijk and Winy Maas curated previous editions of the seminar. The INDESEM.21 board consists of Hidde Dijkstra, Tijmen Smith, Willem Damen, Inez Spaargaren, Valentin Zech, Louisa Hollander, Nadine Nossbaum and Elina Gaillard.

Complete details and registration...

Into the Wild - design competitions by Non Architecture

Nature is the designer of this world. Since ancient history, we have always imagined and represented nature in a great many ways across history, painting it and worshipping it. Today we ended up undervaluing it.

Architects and designers have control over our built environment; by designing cities and buildings to empower rather than disconnect from ecosystems, we can change our proximity to the environment and change our physical relationship to it. Rekindling our relationship with nature is a task that architecture and urban design are well suited to tackle. Recognizing and making decisions based on nature’s value will be essential for building a better world.

Bringing nature back into our cities and enhancing existing ecological zones can deliver a truly impressive array of benefits, ranging from health and well-being to climate change adaptation and mitigation. However, reconciling cities with nature requires more than just a scientific approach.

Into the Wild is a compilation of design challenges that aim to approach the element of nature from different perspectives.

In this scenario, Rhino software presents itself as a powerful creative tool to design and develop the most innovative proposal to submit on this series of competitions.

Complete details...

Architecture Skill Workshop: From Digital Natives to Digital Architecture

Register today for the Architecture Skill Workshop with Keera Sistem in Indonesia.

Date: Saturday, March 27, 2021
Time: 08.00-12.00 (WIB)

Registration here.

Contact: Sekretariat IAI Jatim - 0877 0477 3088

Timber WH-Arena and Timber Tower in Vienna

Nicolas Sterling from Sterling Presser Architects + Engineers has been kind enough to share one of his latest project done in Rhino/Grasshopper.

The Timber WH ARENA and Timber Tower design proposal for the WH-Arena competition in Vienna has made it to the second round.

The 20,000-seat WH-Arena timber concept is rooted in nature in symbiosis with its environment. The project vision is to create a new sustainable landmark for a large-scale arena that performs at all levels of efficiency and flexibility. The dialogue between the arena, the side buildings, and the public space creates a unique combination. The architectural objects play as much role as the outer space they generate. The timber structural moiré skin is acting as the tree skin. The building maximizes natural, beautiful, and warm materials that connect us with nature and envisions a sustainable future.

The arena roof, the shape of a shallow saddle, consists of a triangular grillage of timber strips structure as a Gridnet, a hybrid of a gridshell and a cablenet. This composite construction, which optimizes the use of material while minimizing embodied energy, while using a renewably sourced timber, creates a warm feel to the space with an enhanced acoustic performance. The roof spans about 160 m lengthwise and about 130 m crosswise. The roof has photovoltaic panels on its upper side and an uninterrupted continuously closed acoustic ceiling on its underside, which is partially translucent to give the interior of the arena a striking design effect.

The integrated architecture and facade structure follows a subtle distribution to create an optical effect as one moves around the building. The roof, the façade elements, and the timber gridshell are a unique parametric model to balance structural performance and aesthetic and visual effect.

The project is great teamwork in collaboration with:

• Thornton Tomasetti: Structure, facades, and acoustic
  
• A24 Landschaft: Landscape
• Transsolar: Energy, sustainability, environment design, MEP
• Kunz: Fire engineering
• Woo Architects: Arena experts
• Yann Kersalé. Lighting artist
• Ateliers de L’Éclairage: Lighting designer/engineers
• SOL: Renderings
• Xtrude.Berlin: 3D printing

Complete details...

Rhino training in Russia

SABIT, Authorized Rhino Reseller and Training Center, announced a series of training courses in Russia, from General NURBS Modelling to more specialized Jewelry and Architectural Design:

• December 1-30, 2020 - Level I - NURBS Modeling
  
  
• January 19-February 15, 2021 - Rhinoceros for Architectural Design
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• January 19-February 17, 2021 - Rhinoceros for Jewelry Design
  
  
• January 19-February 17, 2021 - Level I-NURBS Modeling

Click on the links for more info and registration...

Managing BIG facades using Rhino.Inside

In this course organized by ThinkParametric, Oliver Thomas, BIM specialist at BIG, teaches you how they are currently using Rhino.Inside at their latest projects to manage complex facade systems.

"Rhino.Inside makes the transfer of information between Rhinoceros 3D and Autodesk Revit quick, easy, and intuitive. It’s a real game-changer. Rhino.Inside is an open-source project which allows you to run Rhino and Grasshopper within other programs such as Revit. It takes literally a push of a button to get your geometry into Revit from Rhino and vice versa. The power of Rhino.Inside is its simplicity, it doesn’t take a computational design expert to master it."

Check the course program...

ARC 2020 VR end-of-year exhibition - University of Nicosia

The ARC VR 2020 end-of-year exhibition presents a response to the COVID-19 lockdown and the consequent cancellation of the most anticipated yearly event of the department. The exhibition space is an identical copy of the department facility (Faculty of Architecture - University of Nicosia), an award-winning renovated shoe factory. The building and the exhibition were purposely modeled using Rhino during a five-day intensive workshop hosted entirely online.

View the exhibition space!

Webinar: Rhino in VR and in Unreal with Mindesk - July 2 and 6

Webinar: Rhino in VR and in Unreal with Mindesk

July 2 and July 6, at 15:30 CET both days

Explore, create, and edit Rhino models in VR with Mindesk Live Link. Designing organic curvy shapes, and complex assemblies become much easier. Experience the results in 1:1 scale.

Work in Unreal Studio with your Rhino 3D model. In Mindesk you will find realtime Rhino modeling, Unreal materials & lights, and ray tracing rendering in one place.

Use Grasshopper sliders and edit your Grasshopper script directly in VR to evaluate and compare complex parametric designs. Being immersed will help to find the optimal parameters for your project.

Sign up for the webinar...

VisualARQ News - Cloud Zoo support

VisualARQ 2.8 is a free service pack for existing users. It includes:

• Cloud Zoo support
• Overhead attributes (Watch video tutorial)
• Plan cut elevation to show objects above or below cut plane
• Bottom control arrow to extend walls and curtain walls

Complete details...

Rhino in Architecture & V-Ray Next workshops in Madrid

MPA+PIA (Modelado de Proyectos y Producción de Imagen de Arquitectura) con Rhinoceros y V-Ray Next

Colegio Mayor Universitario Chaminade, Madrid

February 29 + March 1, 7, 8 (16:00-21:00h)

MIAUCADEMIA announces two new workshops:

• MPA / Modelado de Proyectos de Arquitectura (Rhinoceros 6), Interoperabilidad BIM

• PIA / Producción de Imagen de Arquitectura con V-Ray Next para Rhino

Complete details and registration (in Spanish)...

Rhino.Inside® brings the power of Rhino to BricsCAD® BIM V20

Bricsys®, a Hexagon company, has partnered with Robert McNeel & Associates of Seattle, Washington, to leverage their Rhino.Inside® initiative. Bricsys is using Rhino.Inside® to bring the full power of the Rhinoceros NURBS modeler to BricsCAD® BIM V20.

Rhino integration enables a new workflow that fills the gap between early-stage conceptual design and Building Information Modeling. Using Rhino’s built-in Grasshopper visual programming language, users can create parametric concept models inside of BricsCAD® BIM.

"Algorithmic modeling tools are often used in the conceptual design phase before BIM tools are involved in the design process. The BricsCAD–Grasshopper connection bridges this gap. Then, using the A.I. functionality in BricsCAD BIM, it’s simple to convert the Rhino model into a full BIM in just a few seconds," commented Tiemen Strobbe, BIM Product Owner at Bricsys®.

Once a design concept is approved, the Rhino model can be “baked” in BricsCAD® BIM, generating native BricsCAD® geometry. This geometry can be converted into a full BIM model, including automatic classification of model elements, using BIMIFY, and the automatic attachment of compositions using the AUTOMATCH tool.

Read the complete press release here...

Now integrated with Grasshopper: ixCube and ixCube FEA

IxCube FEA from ixRay ltd on Vimeo.

The popular tensile structures modeling and FEA system, ixCube, is now integrated with Grasshopper. Details.

Learn more about ixCube at the Textile Architecture Workshop 2019 in Dubai (November 26-27):

New Rhino 6 - Mac & Windows - Mexico

Join Dimension N and Centro and learn about the new tools and features of Rhino 6 for Mac and Windows. This talk will be presented by Javier M Gaxiola (@Jamagax), Rhino specialist and user for more than 15 years. 

Now that Rhino 6 is available for both Mac and PC operating systems, Javier will be showing the new rendering and materials system, the new display engine, the new presentation tools, Grasshopper, new manufacturing applications, and our new project Rhino.Inside.

Place: Centro - Auditorium
Date: Thursday, October 10th
Time: 5 PM


Admission is free. Special pricing for new licenses and upgrades will be available to attendees. 

For more information, please call 5554341485 or email info@dimensiontallerdigital.com

PAZ Academy Zurich - October workshops

Join PAZ - Parametric Academy Zurich in their new October courses.
You will learn about the Archicad - Grasshopper connection in two different workshops.

HELLO ACGH
October 3, 2019 
18:00-20:00
Zurich, Switzerland

Learn about the power of Rhino and Grasshopper with professional and useful examples for a typical working day.

At the end of the presentation, you’ll be able to understand new possibilities with the Archicad - Grasshopper connection. Ready to optimize your daily work.

Complete details and registration…

AC+GH_OCT

October 11-12 and 25-26, 2019
9:00-17:00

Zurich, Switzerland

Join the ARCHICAD-Grasshopper October Camp and learn how to connect an early-stage design with Building Information Modeling.

Learn Rhino and Grasshopper through simple exercises and all the technical steps to make the two software work together.

At the end of the course, you’ll be able to understand, edit, and develop your first usable definitions. Optimize your daily work in a fun summer environment!

Complete details and registration…

Interactive 3D parametric tower design by Marco Traverso

After Marco Traverso's recent webinar on car rim design, this is a new demonstration of a parametric model done with Grasshopper and published through the ShapeDiver platform.

This time the parametric model is capable of generating a variety of tower designs, allowing specifications of the overall shape and dimensions, the type of balcony pattern style—using different image textures—as well as other architectural elements.

Check out the project here...