birth-place of Samba. This will allow us to negotiate with real-estate pressures to relocate Carnaval float fabrication away from its current port location near the Sambodromo. The design workshop will take place at the Pimpolhos Carnaval School port warehouse, collaborating with local float designers and fabricators to invent a new type of interactive Carnaval float that would redefine the relationship between fabrication, performance and spectacle. Knowledge and expertise from local artisans will be combined with computational design and digital fabrication techniques such as Grasshopper associative design, processing, and Arduino, as well as CNC and laser cutting technologies as a means to conceive new float designs for the people of the Carnaval culture.
EVENTS LEADING UP TO WORKSHOP
SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2011 : SYMPOSIUM – CIDADE DO SAMBA, RIO DE JANEIRO 14: 00 – 17:00 – LECTURES AND ROUND TABLE:…
ble: Informing Digital Design with Real World Data
Information about each Workshop Cluster can be found here:
Cyber Gardens
Use the Force
Urban Feeds
Reflective Environments
Interacting with the City
Agent Construction
Authored Sensing
Performing Skins
Responsive Acoustic Surfacing
Hybrid Space Structure Typologies
The SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop will take place at CITA http://cita.karch.dk/
Applications to attend the SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop in Copenhagen will close next Monday 31st January 2011. General Conference registration will open within 1 month.
We hope to see you there!
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Workshop 28th-31st March
Shop Talk 1 April
Symposium 2 April
Reception 2 April
These events follow the highly successful previous SG events in Barcelona 2010, San Francisco 2009, Munich 2008, New York 2007, Cambridge/London, UK 2006 and multiple preceding events.
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BUILDING THE INVISIBLEInforming Digital Design with Real World Data
THE PREMISEVast streams of data offer a rich resource for designers. By incorporating external information into our design processes the autonomy of the design is challenged. User data, energy calculations, embedded sensing, material and structural simulation, human behaviour and perception, particle flows and force fields allows design to be situated and responsive. From the simulation of megacities to the solid modelling of material systems, design has the potential to be informed by the real. Design sits not separate from is environment but inhabits an ecological system, open, dynamic and interdependent, diverse, partially self-organising, adaptive, and fragile. Across scale and within time we now have the chance to instil architecture with an immanent intelligence creating new relationships between the user, the built and its ecosphere.THE OPPORTUNITYSystems theorists suggest that data is only a raw material. It can be differentiated from information, knowledge and wisdom. Understanding is multi-levelled: understanding of relations, understanding of patterns, understanding of principles. As digital designers our challenge is in harnessing the power of computation to assist us in informing our design process. Computers help us collect, manage and analyse the environment and inform us about an abundance of data. Our challenge is to use these inputs in a meaningful way to help us make better informed design decisions.THE AIMSG 2011 explores how the incorporation of real world data challenges existing design thinking. The SG 2011 workshop aim is to create physical prototypes of design systems to be exhibited in the SG2011 exhibition.
The SmartGeometry Group is a not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to the use of computational tools in architecture and engineering. SG brings professionals, academics, and industry together to explore the next generation of digital design. SG Workshops are non-platform specific, believing it is the methodology, not the tool, that matters.
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nowledge, tools, materials and machines. The Clusters provide a focus for workshop participants working together within a common framework.
Clusters provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, processes and techniques and act as a catalyst for design resolution. The Workshop is made up of ten Clusters that respond in diverse ways to the sg2012 Challenge Material Intensities. The Call for Clusters is now open to proposals which respond in innovative ways to this year's challenge.
Deadline: September 19 2011
More information can be found here:
http://smartgeometry.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=129&Itemid=146
sg2012 takes place from 19-24 March 2012 at EMPAC (http://empac.rpi.edu/) and is hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, upstate New York USA. The Workshop and Conference will be a gathering of the global community of innovators and pioneers in the fields of architecture, design and engineering.
The event will be in two parts: a four day Workshop 19-22 March, and a public conference beginning with Talkshop 23 March, followed by a Symposium 24 March. The event follows the format of the highly successful preceding events sg2010 Barcelona and sg2011 Copenhagen.
sg2012 Challenge Material Intensities
Simulation, Energy, Environment
Imagine the design space of architecture was no longer at the scale of rooms, walls and atria, but that of cells, grains and vapour droplets. Rather than the flow of people, services, or construction schedules, the focus becomes the flow of light, vapour, molecular vibrations and growth schedules: design from the inside out.
The sg2012 challenge, Material Intensities, is intended to dissolve our notion of the built environment as inert constructions enclosing physically sealed spaces. Spaces and boundaries are abundant with vibration, fluctuating intensities, shifting gradients and flows. The materials that define them are in a continual state of becoming: a dance of energy and information.Material potential is defined by multiple properties: acoustical, chemical, electrical, environmental, magnetic, manufacturing, mechanical, optical, radiological, sensorial, and thermal. The challenge for sg2012 Material Intensities is to consider material economy when creating environments, micro-climates and contexts congenial for social interaction, activities and organisation. This challenge calls for design innovation and dialogue between disciplines and responsibilities.sg2010 Working Prototypes strove to emancipate digital design from the hard drive by moving from the virtual to the actual in wrestling with the tangible world of physical fabrication. sg2011 Building the Invisible focused on informing digital design with real world data. sg2012 Material Intensities strives to energise our digital prototypes and infuse them with material behaviour. They have the potential to become rich simulations informed by the material dynamics, chemical composition, energy flows, force fields and environmental conditions that feed back into the design process.
More information can be found at http://www.smartgeometry.org…
ira en torno a las actividades del Taller Transversal de proyectos en colaboración con el Taller Paramétrico CEU, y los ponentes serán:
Roberto Molinos: Arquitecto , profesor de la IE School of Architecture que actualmente colabora con OSOME
Guillermo Ramírez y Miguel Vidal del estudio docente Frikearq, imparten cursos de diseño paramétrico y rhino scripting.Ambos alumnos de la ETSAM
Vicente Soler: Colaboraciones con el estudio Amid (Cero9) y alumno de la UEM
Pablo Delgado: Como coordinador del taller paramétrico CEU expondrá laas conclusiones de los diferentes talleres y trabajos realizados en la universidad.
Pablo Delgado Ramírez.Coordinador del taller paramétrico CEU 2010
pablodelgadoramirez@gmail.com
tallerparametricoceu@gmail.com
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roposes now) definition is not quite right as stated above. From this link (sorry for that, but i'm lazy to look for a better one) we can see that:
The terms sky component and sky factor refer to the actual contribution of the sky to daylight, after considering both luminous distribution and incidence angle effects. There appear to be no hard and fast rules as to the type of sky distribution to be used with either term, however they are typically calculated using either the CIE Uniform Sky or CIE Overcast Sky to remove the dynamic effects of beam solar component.
After that the definition of VSc, as given by the BRE:
The Vertical Sky Component (VSC) is described by the UK Building Research Establishment (BRE) as the ratio of the direct sky illuminance falling on the vertical wall at a reference point, to the simultaneous horizontal illuminance under an unobstructed sky [Littlefair, 1991]. It also states that the Standard CIE Overcast Sky model is to be used for the sky illuminance distribution. This means that the reference value for the VSC percentage is effectively the unobstructed horizontal sky component.
And that's why i like a bit less the definition above (just sky component) and then generalizing the concept for all other possible surfaces.
As for SVF, doing a quick search of recent (relatively) sources that are trying to develop methodologies to define SVF they are based almost exclusively on solid/geometrical considerations. See these references for illustration:
Grimmond C.S.B., Potter S.K., Zutter H.N. and Souch C. 2001. Rapid Methods to Estimate Sky-View Factors Applied to Urban Areas. International Journal of Climatology. 21: 903–913 (2001). DOI: 10.1002/joc.659
Matuschek, O. Matzarakis, A. 2010. Estimation of Sky View Factor in Complex Environment as a Tool for Applied Climatological Studies. In: Matzarakis, A., Mayer, H., Chmielewski, F.-M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Biometeorology. Ber. Meteorol. Inst. Univ. Freiburg No. 20, 535-540.
Matzarakis A., Matuschek O. 2011. Sky view factor as a Parameter in Applied Climatology - Rapid Estimation by the Skyhelios Model. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Vol. 20, No. 1, 039-045 (Open Access Article).
Hämmerle M., Gál T., UngerJ. & Matzarakis A. 2011. Comparison of Models Calculating the Sky View Factor Used for Urban Climate Investigations. Theoretical and Applied Climatology (2011) 105:521–527. DOI 10.1007/s00704-011-0402-3.
I know some other researches that use the term SVF just from its geometrical implications. This is probably because all those are based on site measurements or photographing.
It will be really interesting to calibrate those with the new LB component.
Thanks again,
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ual not tactile. i havnt touched the roof of my house i have been living in since 25 years yet its a part of my space. its still a visual plane between me and sky ( except that it protects me from rain). anyway, the point was to reconstruct huge cathedrals without moving big amount of earth.I came up with Nuun lense ( i had in sketches, it will be shorter form of this ugly cube, probably in mms) which will line the necessary floors and stairs-wells and towers.
During my experiment I realized this can be used for visualizing architectural spaces in real time, specially for arch student, it could be used as a console, that can replace cad and other 3d softwares. you can draw basic grids, orthogonal shapes ( not Zaha hadid stuff ). I still am very enthusiastic about this idea. I want to see it function some day.
Grasshopper was used to drive poor reflectors through firefly, to bend laser.( it failed badly) Its just for idea if anybody likes to follow, i dont have enough resources but it would make me happy if some day i see students working on realtime laser models and building having virtual ornamentation.
Any architecture/ electronics student who wants to further his research in lasers and its application in virtual modeling can contact me.
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1 ft acrylic cube , 3 slidable laser panels 1 by 1 ft for each axis. all in separate pieces. (glass table, reflectors not included)…