Showing posts with label scripting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scripting. Show all posts

Thursday, March 30, 2017

New Grasshopper book now available



David Bachman has just released his new book Grasshopper Visual Scripting for Rhinoceros 3D. Through this introduction to modeling objects with Grasshopper and the series of examples and tutorials, learn how to build complex objects by combining simple components. Applications include both NURBS surface modeling and mesh manipulation techniques.

David Bachman is a mathematics professor at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA. This is his third book. His company, David Bachman Design, Inc., is a consultant for international clients and product designers. 







Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Marc Fornes in video


Thinner than a credit card. Yet you can stand on the structure.
Under Magnitude, the most recent permanent structure from Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY, evolves the studio's invention of a topological-walking stripe-based material system, that is 'structural stripes.'

Strips of curved perforated aluminum are riveted together to create this two-story installation of tubular branches.

In the design Marc Fornes refers to Frei Otto's soap bubble model. He advances the form with tighter curvature and constant directional change.

Under Magnitude is suspended from the atrium of the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

Marc Fornes is the founder of THEVERYMANY, a design studio and collaborative research forum engaging the field of architecture via encoded and explicit processes. A Rhino and RhinoScript expert, Marc collaborates with McNeel on a regular basis.

See the video The Origin of Stripes...


Thursday, February 9, 2017

Discover the power of Python in Rhino



The Power of Python Scripting


Automate tasks. Create your own routines. We have added many new guides to help you get started with the Python programming language.

Python is cross-platform and runs in Windows and Mac. Python is a modern programming language that is friendly, easy to learn and powerful...it can also be used in Grasshopper.

Come see how easy it is to write Python scripts at the new Python Developer Guides site.

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Evolute Workshop - March 15-17, Vienna (Austria)


Evolute Workshop
Freeform facades, from design to production

March 15-17, 2017
Evolute GmbH office
Schwindgasse 4/10, 1040
Vienna (Austria)


Evolute GmbH invites you to attend their upcoming Evolute Workshop. Gain insights into the workflow of a typical freeform facade design project at Evolute.

From an architect's design, participants will convert a freeform facade to the production data and drawing output needed by manufacturers for production of panels.

The workshop will touch upon the following steps:
  • Optimization and refinement of the panelisation pattern
  • Manufacturing techniques
  • Curved panel simplification
  • Clustering
  • Production drawings and data
Evolute will also provide an introduction to their software suite and show how to use it in the context of a real-life project. A complimentary one-year license for EvoluteTools PRO, D.LOFT, T.MAP will be offered to all the participants.

Friday, June 12, 2015

Advanced Architecture Summer School in Paris


An
 architectural space suit performs several functions to allow its occupant to live safely and comfortably, inside or outside a space. It’s the combination of complex equipment, designed to keep the inhabitant comfortable, integrating multiple layers of environmental control and communication systems, all employed to allow complete freedom of movement and interaction.
We call those spatial and human hybridizations - Inhabitats.

The Advanced Architecture Summer School (Paris, August 17-September 4) at VOLUMES coworking is a 3-week learning experience designed as an immersive journey in social innovation, computational design, digital fabrication, and collaborative culture.

The summer school is organized by
 VOLUMES coworkingNoumena Architecture, and Francesco Cingolani who is an architect, teacher, and director of the new Advanced Master Program in Computational Design and Making of the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

BIMobject® BIMscript™ & LENA


BIMscript™ and LENA is a technology solution designed to streamline and speed up the process of BIM content creation. This delivers both an open and freely available scripting language as well as a BIM object authoring solution.


Powerful scripting language

BIMscript™ includes not only parametric behaviors but also calculations, product logic, level of detail (with several levels of complexity of geometry and geometry combinations) and includes a huge range of properties and attributes.

Import mechanical CAD geometry

LENA is an authoring app for the mechanical CAD system Rhino that will generate BIMscript™. It is a solution in which mechanical CAD geometry can be imported from most mechanical CAD systems, including industry leading products like CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, SolidEdge, IGES, NX, JT, Inventor and Pro E. Rhino is the host platform for BIMobject® LENA in which BIMscript™ is generated and works in combination with the modeling and optimization features of Rhino.

Generate native BIM objects

Operating in the cloud BIMscript™ generates intelligent, native BIM objects in a number of formats for the most popular BIM applications from Autodesk, Graphisoft, and Trimbleand with the potential for more in the future. It also generates objects in commonly used formats such as IFC, 3DS, DWG, and WebGL.

Connected to BIMobject® Cloud

BIMobject® LENA is directly connected to the BIMobject® Cloud providing a seamless workflow to publish objects. It includes a connection to the corresponding product information stored in property sets in the BIMobject Cloud.

Scalable and intelligent

The solution is scalable and can describe products as well as components in a very intelligent way, creating configurable objects with parametric variations and different levels of detail. BIMscript™ is a subset of the C programming language and enables smart objects to be created in BIMobject® LENA and then hosted and managed in the BIMobject® Cloud.

Easy to use

BIMobject® LENA requires the developer to have a commercial license of Rhino and accreditation from BIMobject® before it is used. BIMobject® LENA is easy to use and within it all syntax controls, testing, and creation of the generated BIMscript™ take place. The technology is freely available and will be enhanced continuously.


BIMscript™ Hackathon 2015
From Mechanical CAD to intelligent BIM objects
Budapest, Hungary
Sep 1-4, 2015


BIMobject® proudly presents the first BIMscript™ Hackathon event in Budapest, Hungary. Come and join us and learn to master BIMscript™ and the LENA solution for Rhino. The Hackathon will be lead by our core developers. You will have a unique occasion to learn from the masters.



Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Robots and Cyborgs in Architecture Workshop - Istanbul, Turkey


MASS v.1.0 - Robots and Cyborgs in Architecture Workshop
Istanbul, Turkey
1-10 July 2015

Media Architecture & Spatial Systems Workshop (MASS) aims to tackle the abstract notion of Spatial Design through a trifold relation between space, media and technology. Under the umbrella of MASS, the Robots and Cyborgs International Workshop will integrate the use of a robot for digital fabrication with a cybernetic Virtual Reality (VR) system and into a spatial system.

Starting off with an overview of Robotic Fabrication and VR systems it will quickly move on to the control of both components and concepts through tutorials in robotic fabrication and virtual reality.

In order to support this development the Robots and Cyborgs workshop will also be supported by a series of lectures related to the subject of Media Architecture & Spatial Systems.

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Grasshopper and Python manuals in Spanish


Founder and Principal of archi[o]logics, Adolfo Nadal is a professional with a manifold career in architecture, education, design, and computational geometry.

Adolfo has been kind enough to share his manuals on Computational Design (in Spanish) on issuu:


Tip: if you prefer a PDF version, click on Share>Download

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

INFORMED MATTER - intermediate Grasshopper workshop in Paris - Last Call


INFORMED MATTER - intermediate Grasshopper workshop
Paris, France
Oct 17-19, 2014

The space in which we live can be monitored in many aspects and it appears as a flux, a gradient of data in continuous evolution. Our understanding of the surrounding environment improves every day due to our ability to scan and sample the environment around us at increasing resolution, using better technologies and sensors. Thus the space is revealed as a ever changing data field. Our capability to act and design the space itself can be enhanced by the use of tools able to inform better the design processes with more accurate, specific and variable, in space and time, data streams.

INFORMED MATTER is an intermediate Grasshopper workshop about “data embodiment strategies” and advanced mesh modeling techniques.

Grasshopper is a powerful information processor that provides the basis to develop possible strategies to inFORM digital matter morphologies by specific set of data conditions.

The workshop focuses on integrating information processing into digital systems to enable the formation of structures, from the very simple up to more complex ones. The aim is to give an understanding of information and data articulation as a spatial and architectural operation. Results may range from pure data strategies design to data-driven geometries depending on the skill levels and aspirations of each participant. The brief is also open to the suggestions and opportunities that may rise during the workflow.


Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Loop: The Environmental Summer Pavilion 2



This interdisciplinary project is the team work of students from the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the TUL in Liberec and the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at the CZU in Prague, under the leadership of Marie Davidová (FA CTU in Prague / Collaborative Collective), Šimon Prokop (Collaborative Collective) and Martin Kloda (Archwerk). It is the continuation of the project pareSITE, the Environmental Summer Pavilion published here a year ago. Its goal is to evolve the performance of solid pine wood. The PareSITE project was absorbing humidity during the night while evaporating it during hot summer days. The panelling supported this by warping – increasing the humid air circulation. This year's project took the concept further. The panelling was organised spatially. Left and right sides of the panels in tangential section were combined. Thanks to this, as well as the shape of the structure, the pavilion performed much better.

The concept evolved from origami folded ellipse that was 3D scanned and used as a base for a Grasshopper for Rhino 5 model that generated fabrication drawings. The individual pieces for the structure were cut on a Hundegger Speed-Cut 3 CNC saw at Eurodach and the panelling on HOMAG Venture 06S 3-axis milling machine at the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences at CZU in Prague, where the structure was also mounted by the students.

The Loop Pavilion served as a meeting point and podium for the EnviroCity festival, creating a pleasant environment for its visitors and presenters.

Grasshopper for Rhino 5 model:

The model was created solely in Grasshopper (and its plug-ins) using only two guiding curves in Rhinoceros 5 taken from the 3D scanner. This helped the team to work on the structure even before the final shape of guiding curves was determined. Due to the spatial organization of panels and the nature of pavilion's construction there was a fair amount of data structure to work with besides the geometry. All the elements were simple planar planks, however, the overall shape is perceived as a double curved surface.

Since the shape was complicated in the terms of statics, the team used a plug-in called Donkey to analyse possible weak spots in the construction. Simultaneously, the joints were analysed in different force constellations to find the optimal positioning of fasteners. Another Grasshopper plug-in, Ladybug, was used to estimate the sun's position and energy gain on each panel on the actual site during the installation period so that the panel size could become another layer of complexity.

All participating students learned Grasshopper basics.

List of participating students:

Alena Novotná, Anna Hrušová, Antonín Hůla, Barbora Slavíčková, Jakub Kopecký, Jiří Fáber, Jiří Pokorný, Petr Tůma, Tereza Jílková, Radim Sýkora, Eliška Antonyová, Tereza Lišková, Filip Janata, Tomáš Kytka, Marie Kortanová, Vojtěch Holeček, Martin Vaníček, Jakub Hlaváček and Petr Havelka

Sponsors:

Stora Enso, Rothoblaas, Nářadí Bartoš, Eurodach, Lesy ČR, Nadace Proměny, Natura Decor


For further information, please follow our blog at http://environmentalpavilion.tumblr.com/ 

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

The Louvre in Abu Dhabi



Recently, at the F#unctional Londoners meetup group, Goswin Rothenthal presented how he used F# application scripting to construct an associative digital 3D model for the cladding of the Louvre Abu Dhabi Dome. The F#unctional Londoners is a newly launched meetup group whose purpose is to bring together Londoners with an interest in functional programming with F#.

The Louvre Abu Dhabi was designed by the architect Jean Nouvel. The complex dome construction is contracted to the Austrian steel specialist, Waagner Biro.

The geometric openings in the dome were inspired by the interlaced palm leaves traditionally used in roofing material. For the cladding of this dome more than 450,000 individual cutting and drilling patterns of custom aluminum extrusions were described and automated. Goswin Rothenthal developed an F# application to represent and organize all the dome's cladding elements. He used Rhino and its .NET API to host the F# DLL for drawing and visualization. With this, they had an integrated work flow in a single parametric model, from the main geometry set down to the manufacturing data.

Read more on the architecture of the Louvre Abu Dhabi ....


Thursday, June 12, 2014

AA Visiting School Madrid


Trans-Computational Membranes 2.0
Madrid, Spain
2-12 September 2014

Trans-computational membranes will explore computational design methods through the use of digital-analogue experimentation. It will challenge the way we conceive flexibility within the context of spatial re-adaptation as a driver for social change. Time-based dynamic systems will transform the digital–analog divide through networks of instantaneous spatial deployment creating a symbiotic spatial context that examines new-era demands.

Check the videos from last year's edition: 
AA Madrid 2013 Video 1 
AA Madrid 2013 Video 2 


Details and registration: http://madrid.aaschool.ac.uk/ 

Monday, May 26, 2014

MCDC // Master Computational Design and Construction


Detmold, Germany
Starts in September 2014

The post-graduate Master program focuses on digital design methods and construction technologies in architecture, engineering, and design. The Curriculum provides the scientific and practical foundation and gives an overview of the latest developments in Computational Design and Construction. 

Digital technologies altered the field of architecture and the architectural profession significantly – from design to production. Against this background, the study program incorporates the professional qualities of higher architectural education as well as the theoretical and operative aspects of information technology.

The three-semester Master program addresses graduates of Architecture, Interior and Product Design, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, as well as Information Technology and related studies. Cooperative projects, symposia, and master theses serve as a platform for collaborations with the building industry, software suppliers, other universities and architectural offices.

The application deadline for the next study program is June 30, 2014. Admittance follows an evaluation of the application dossier. The courses start in September 2014.


Details and registration: www.m-cdc.de 

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.


Thursday, May 15, 2014

AA Visiting School Jordan


Amman, Jordan
14-24 June 2014

AA Jordan is a unique ten-day computational architecture workshop as part of the Architectural Association' Visiting School Programmes. The UNESCO world heritage sites of Petra and Wadi Rum are part of the focus of the workshop and will be visited, researched, investigated and inhabited for two days.

Agenda
The Jordanian desert ecology is a distinct unaltered antiquity, a magnificent heterogeneous landscape that is emergent of fluid erosion processes that have occurred over fifty million years. The biodiversity of the desert reveals a vast platform for research into natural artifacts. Participants will investigate natural phenomena which include sand dunes, rock strata, rock bridges, canyons, gorges, and mountain formations. During the course of the workshop, participants will visit, examine, and inhabit two UNESCO world heritage sites: Wadi Rum and Petra; the latter named one of the world's seven wonders.

Programme director
Kais Al-Rawi

Programme faculty
Julia Koerner
Vincenzo Reale
Marie Boltenstern
Mohamad Makkouk 


Guests
Ross Lovegrove, Ross Lovegrove Studio
Wael Attili, Kharabeesh


Complete details and registration: http://jordan.aaschool.ac.uk/ 


Friday, April 25, 2014

AA Summer DLAB :: White - London, UK

Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
London / Hooke Park, United Kingdom
July 21 – August 8, 2014

Summer DLAB experiments with the integration of algorithmic / generative design methodologies and large scale digital fabrication tools. Continuing its color based agenda, Summer DLAB immerses in ‘white’ for its 2014 cycle. 'White' is the starting point to investigating natural formation processes and interpreting them as innovative architectonic spaces. ‘White’ becomes the means of looking into extreme natural conditions which it is associated with. Concepts of emergence, differentiation, and complexity shape the theoretical framework of this investigation. We will observe natural structures of differing scales, which are then abstracted and interpreted into elaborate design proposals. The computational process of Summer DLAB is based on generative design algorithms, as seen in natural growth patterns such as the Lindenmayer system and fractal theory. These concepts are carefully interwoven with interaction and participatory design to create full-scale working prototypes.


One of the major objectives of Summer DLAB is to demonstrate the workflow between computational software and digital assembly procedures leading to physical fabrication. In this respect, the programme is a two-phase process. During the initial phase participants benefit from the unique atmosphere and facilities of AA’s London home. The second phase shifts to AA Hooke Park campus where we fabricate and assemble a full-scale architectural intervention. Here we unify the design goals of Summer DLAB.

Friday, March 28, 2014

ACADIA 2014 | DESIGN AGENCY | Call announced



Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture 2014 International Conference


October 23-25, 2014
Los Angeles, CA



Workshops and Tour: October 20-22 & 26, 2014
Los Angeles, CA



DESIGN AGENCY will bring together the spectrum of research and creative practice currently in the ACADIA community, through the combined support of the research networks of the University of Southern California, University of California Los Angeles and Southern California Institute of Architecture. Questions the capacity for computation to inform or challenge traditional design processes; computation as design operation - the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power, and/or computation as design instrumentality - the design mechanism through which power is exerted or an end is achieved.

Full papers, work in progress, and projects with a special call to be announced soon.
  
For the submission information page please go to: http://2014.acadia.org/submit.html 

Thursday, March 27, 2014

10th RhinoDay Italy


10th RhinoDay Italy 2014
Università degli Studi di Padova - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale April 11-12, 2014


The 10th Italian User Meeting, organized by Università degli Studi di Padova - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile e Ambientale and sponsored by ZEN's s.r.l., has been announced and registrations are now open.

Apart from the live users' presentations, Steve Baer, Giulio Piacentino and Giuseppe Massoni (McNeel) will show the latest news on RhinoPythonGrasshopper and Rhino, respectively.