nd linear/planar tectonics. Within this new field of investigation, the Stuttgart VS will be researching into novel techniques of material mixtures and grading, associative design and double curvature surface generation.
For the second cycle of this exploration we will be based at the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart. Drawing from the Institute’s long history of experimentation and research on tensile structures instigated by Frei Otto in the 1960s and conducted at present by Werner Sobek, this year we will be focusing on the design and fabrication of materially graded membranes, as well as the application of UHPC and FGC on fabric formworks. The workflow followed will be divided into two stages:
1. Computing Membranes: Computational form finding methods will be taught by professional engineers and architects from ILEK and str.ucture GmbH. The aim will be to utilise the latest software technologies to form find membranes for textile structures, or fabric formworks for complex concrete structures. The results will be evaluated against criteria such as internal air pressure, as well as asymmetric and wind loading. The outcome of this research will inform the material grading procedures (i.e. changing the stiffness, thickness or porosity of the membranes themselves, or the consistency of the concrete poured into the formworks) that will follow in stage two.
2. Fabricated Grading: The digitally computed membranes or formworks will eventually be fabricated physically, utilising the workshop and robotic fabrication facilities at ILEK. The objective will be to rethink conventional research on tensile and concrete structures as isotropic constructs, by customising attributes such as materiality, reinforcement, rigidity, translucency, patterning, and porosity among others. The final, graded prototypes will be made up of mixtures of materials, all accurately engineered to respond to variable environmental, structural and aesthetic criteria, in essence forming multi-material structures that have finally caught up with the latest material developments.
Prominent Features of the workshop/ skills developed:
Teaching team consisting of AA diploma tutors and ILEK and str.ucture GmbH engineers.
Access to the Institute of Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK), the Materials Testing Institute and Concrete Spraying Robotic facilities at the University of Stuttgart, as well as to the office of str.ucture GmbH Structural Design Engineering.
Computational skills tuition on Grasshopper, Rhino Membrane, and Karamba.
Lectures series by leading academics and practitioners in architecture and engineering.
Fabrication of functionally graded membrane and/or concrete structures.
Eligibility
The workshop is open to current architecture and design students, PhD candidates and young professionals. Software Requirements: Rhino (SR7 or later) and Grasshopper.
Fees
The AA Visiting School requires a student fee of £595 and a young professional fee of £895 per participant, which includes a £60 Visiting membership fee.
The deadline for applications is 10 July 2017.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/stuttgart?name=stuttgart
For inquiries, please contact:
mixedmatters@aaschool.ac.uk…
and where the decimal place should be.
The reason it only shows the first 5 numbers that make up 1,000,000 is because anything smaller than 100 is considered insignificant when talking about 1 million. Think of it like this if 1 million represents an Olympic size swimming pool then 10 would represent the volume of a full tank of petrol for an average family car. You would have to stand there for an extremely long time to fill up the pool from a petrol pump.
It's important to know that these insignificant digits are still there for the purpose of calculations but are just not being displayed.
There are times when you may want to display these numbers in a format that makes more sense, for these occasions we can use the Format() function.
Format() Function
For versions BEFORE 0.9.0001 the VB Format Function is available through the Expression Components found on the Math Tab > Script Panel
Either by using the F input* or the Expressions Editor found on the Context Menu you can apply a format mask to the x input.
* except FxN
Anatomy of the formatting function above:
Format(..............................) <-- VB function
Format("........................."....) <-- Display String
Format("{0....................}"....) <-- Place Holder for first variable
Format("{0:0.000000000}"...) <-- Format Mask for 9 decimal places
Format("{0:0.000000000}", x) <-- Variable
This can be applied to points and their components:
For versions AFTER 0.9.0001 there is a dedicated Format Component or you can use the Expressions Components successor Evaluate.
For more information on the tags used in the Format Function see these links.
Standard formatting tags Custom formatting tags
WARNING:
If you format a number to be displayed in this way it becomes a string and will no longer have the complete Real number available for calculations. Always use the input to the format function for further requirements in calculations.…
artes y Jueves 18:00 a 22:00 Sábado 10:00 a 14:00
Durante el curso el participante conocerá y entenderá los fundamentos de programación y sus aplicaciones usando Processing: una plataforma de desarrollo en lenguaje java, que surgió en MIT, creada por investigadores enfocados a procesos numéricos y/o generativos para arte y diseño. Se realizarán ejercicios programados para generar gráficas, volúmenes o situaciones kinéticas en tiempo real, basado en algoritmos o reglas complejas y en el procesamiento de datos, soluciones que permitirán comprender temas esenciales como datos primitivos y datos compuestos, algoritmos generativos, geometría 2D y 3D paramétrica, programación estructurada y programación orientada a objetos, control de flujo, variables y ámbito de variable, entre otros temas.
NOTA: Es requisito para cursar los talleres del Bloque 1 y Bloque 2 que los alumnos inscritos tegan bases sobre programación. Este taller forma parte del propedéutico para el Diplomado.…
Added by Alberto Lara at 9:37pm on February 12, 2012
ation production and consumption that represent our physical world in numbers and complex networks. The advent of computational systems has not only helped in developing data production but also in transmitting data between different disciplines including architecture through fields of numbers/codes. Historically, numbers and proportions played a vital role in architectural production, now; the complex flow of data is opening unexpected territories for architects. Data Flow is an advanced computational design workshop that focuses on capturing, processing and utilizing real time data from the surrounding environment by means of physical computing and parametric design tools, enabling the participants to develop informed design solutions that adapt to the environment. The workshop knowledge objective is to reconsider abstract data as a design opportunity by developing the quantitative flow of data as a qualitative design approach. /// Application To apply, please follow this link to fill the application form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xzKn-cZzfvu24ktTNP1ElGBAufdryfLNCXvpheucrS8/viewform /// Fees* 1700 EGP for students / 2000 EGP for graduates and young professionals * 20 % discount for early registration and payment before 22 nd of August 2014 more info on the workshop webpage: http://www.encodestudio.net/#!dataflow/cslb…
the nickname is the editable name, or abbreviation)
Keywords are handled next. Very few components actually have keywords, this is something I hope to get around to when the general help system will be rewritten.
The description is also searched and counts for 1%.
The percentages indicate what importance is given to a hit. When you search for "Point", then all the components that have "Point" in the name will be considered 100 times as important than the ones with "Point" in the description.
Furthermore, weighting is only a relative factor. Exact matches are valued more than poor matches and fuzzy matches (misspellings) are valued least of all. Eventually all the search results are sorted by importance and the 12 most important results are displayed.
The main problem is not I think writing a smarter searcher (although there is definitely room for improvement). The main problem is that words like "Point" and "Create" are so ubiquitous that you'll ever only get the most obvious results. Perhaps a secondary 'deep-search' UI makes sense as well, something that can display more than 12 results and is aimed at those who don't have a full grasp of the component set. This needs some thought and any ideas are welcome.
I fully concur that an online resource of all standard components would be a great thing to have. As I hinted before, I'm planning to rewrite the help-system from the ground up and this would be an excellent time to also have a look at generating online data. This is a really big job though so it won't happen any time soon. Two people (to my knowledge) have tried to generate web-based content from the help files, and have gotten pretty far, however the information I supply is too sketchy to make anything really decent.
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Added by David Rutten at 6:52pm on August 17, 2011
closer". 2 ends means a kind of "terminal" (massif east/ hollow west) SS 316/304 stuff that east has the threads and west is pressed around the cable. Classic structural analysis dictates the forces AND then (if the things are NOT commercially available) comes FEA that validates the nuts and the bits of any bespoke/custom system (if bits they can't sustain the forces > change country ASAP > Brazil + plastic surgery is highly recommended).
Spam on:
Wait a minute: WHAT are you after? Design some WOW truss or computing the forces of it? Because these 2 are different animals that are treated by different kind of disciplines: The Architect designs something and the Structural Engineer (in parallel) evaluates that something ... whilst the idiot (the Architect) does some other variant (since the first was crap).
In the old days that "I design" + "you compute" combo was a bit of a token ... since the "I-re-design" part was out of question. But these days it's not nuclear science provided that you can mastermind a fully parametric system that is adaptable enough to what the structural department could possibly dictate (that does this ^@$%$@ thing provided as an "indication" of these freaky systems).
Spam off.
2. That thing shown is not tensegrity in the classic sense (i.e. simplex, W, Xtruss etc etc) where the out boundaries of a given module they DON'T carry any member (cable or "thin" massif extrusion) that is NOT under tension. For instance a simplex module IS "pure" tensegrity since ... blah, blah. But on your thing the upper members are under pressure ... blah, blah.
3. That brings us to the 1M question: pure tensegrity (in the Name of Science) or a "bastardized" one? (in the Name of Something). If the latter ... why bother and not using a classic MERO KK system that costs 10 times less? (or carbon MERO [almost thin air] or a membrane or synthetic goat skin or solidified air (C)(tm)). …
th (60° max in Paris), but the problem stil arises for the angle theta (for the south but also for the others orientations). For the diffuse radiation, this difference should be 10% as you noticed.
2) I have done some simulations and tried to analyse the weather file used. You can find my results in the Excel File attached. Some simulations take into account the glazing and others just determine the "occultation factor" of the shading device, to which I apply then the solar factor of the window. I found there is a noticeable difference between "_shading_1" and "_Focc_1" for exemple, we should have found similar values ... ? It seems to happen something strange when the rays passe through the glass to reach the analysis points. Facing those results, I still have trouble to draw conclusions. I also determined the diffuse part of radiations for each day from the weather file used, it may help to understand ... If you have any suggestion to explain those results, please let me know.
3) Another point attracts my attention :
The horizontal infrared radiation intensity of the weather file is quite high and constant. I'm wondering if HB take into account this solar radiation's component which represent about 50% of the solar energy ?!
http://bigladdersoftware.com/epx/docs/8-3/auxiliary-programs/energyplus-weather-file-epw-data-dictionary.html#field-horizontal-infrared-radiation-intensity
I continue my research about what is going under the hood (reading documents on Radiance and Daysim calculations) and let you know about the progress of my searches.
Thank you again for your support !
Regards,
Severine
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