current designers and for future practitioners to follow. One of the strongest aspect that is prominent from this style is ‘geometry’. Arguably, there is nothing new about geometry and aesthetics forming the most prominent aspect of any style or era. The language of any style, in the long history of architecture, is visually defined by geometry or shape, beyond the principles that define the core of the style. In the distinguishable style of parametric architecture, geometry has played and is continuing to play an integral role. And with this fairly young style, there are many strings of myths and false notions associated.
The workshop aims to provide an insight to ‘parametric design’ and embedded logics behind it through a series of design explorations using Rhinoceros & Grasshopper platforms. An insight to Computational Design and its subsets of Parametric Design, Algorithmic Design, Generative Design and Evolutionary Design will be provided through presentations, technical sessions & studio work. A strong focus will be made on logics of design that can potentially be coded through a rational and parametric approach.
All rat[LAB]EDUCATION Workshops are tied up with a larger agenda of a buildable project for New Delhi, INDIA (Proposed for late 2015) & a publication scheduled for 2016. All participants will become a part of the growing EDUCATION network and will be exclusively invited for future events & studio activities.
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Workshop has been structured to teach participants the use of Grasshopper® (Generative modelling plug-in for Rhinoceros) as a generative tool, and ways to integrate it with architectural processes. Throughout the use of visual scripting with Grasshopper participants will learn how to build and manage parametric data structures (from simple lists to complex data trees) and to develop data driven geometries & forms. No previous knowledge of Grasshopper is required, but a basic knowledge of Rhino modelling is preferred.
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of computational design and a comprehensive knowledge of cutting-edge technologies in the fields of parametric architecture, robotics, digital manufacturing and 3d printing for the construction industry. The program is a part-time executive format (one week per month during one year) designed for a selected group of architects, engineers, designers and digital artists. DESIGN by DATA is made of courses, fabrication and prototyping workshops, conferences, digital talks and networking events. The program take place in multiple locations in Paris and is a true opportunity to enter the international ecosystem of architectural innovation. A coworking membership and a full fablab access to digital manufacturing machines are included in the program.
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PROGRAM
A) ART AND CULTURE IN THE DIGITAL TURN Digital Culture and Liquid Spaces (Yasmine Abbas)
Smart cities and Collective Intelligence (Domenico Di Siena)
Art, Technology and the Creative Process (Eric Vernhes)
Advanced Mesh Modelling and Data Bodies (Andrea Graziano)
Agent Based Tectonics for Architecture (Alessio Erioli)
B) COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN: COMPLEX GEOMETRIES AND OPTIMISATION
Management and Design of Complex Geometries (Olivier Baverel)
Conceptual Structural Design (Romain Mesnil)
Algorithmic Optimization (Cyril Douthe)
Permormance-driven Design (Sébastien Perrault)
C) ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING AND ROBOTIC FABRICATION
Robotics and Industrial Fabrication (Thibault Schwartz )
3d Printing and Material Science (Justin Dirrenberger)
Drones and Aerial Robotics for Environnemental Design and Architecture (Aldo Sollazzo)
Digital Prototyping and Final Project Fabrication (Minh Man Nguyen)
APPLY FOR SEPTEMBER 2016
http://www.enpc.fr/design-by-data…
ears many bridges had been constructed and even more has collapsed or has been destroyed. Today Warsaw is connected by eight road bridges and two rail bridges, only few of them have a bike lanes. Modern cities are going through rapid changes. Hamburg has announced that in less than 20 years they are closing the center for cars, Copenhagen notes major incrementation in bike use, city bike system has been successfully introduced to many Polish cities. Warsaw bicycle net path is still very weak and probably the most urgent issue is to build a new bridge overpassing the Vistula River. This year Warsaw City Council decided to run an architectural competition for a new bridge. Architecture for Society of Knowledge and Architektura Informacyjna, Master's Programs of Architecture Faculty of Warsaw University of Technology, and Architektura Parametryczna, a digital design educational platform, invite for workshop: Outcome: The primary goal of workshops is to find the most optimal position for new bicycle bridge (or bridges) in Warsaw to enhance the global accessibility and Walkscore. During the workshop the participants will develop an interactive tool that will help to understand the accessibility changes by connecting Vistula shores with bicycle bridges. Program: Four days event will include coding part and learning how to apply digital tools into urban scale problems along with lectures of invited guests. This workshop is planned for intermediate user that understand and use Grasshopper. The workshop will be conducted in English. Tools: SOFTWARE Rhinoeros, Grasshopper, Silverye, Elk, Shortest Walk, Human, gHowl, Unity HARDWARE: Multimedia tool a multimedia tool designed by Jacek Markusiewicz for data representation and design in VR Tutors: Jacek Markusiewicz is an architect graduated from Warsaw University of Technology and the Master in Advanced Architecture at IaaC Barcelona. He specializes in fields of parametric architecture, programming and responsive design. He has been working on different projects combining parametric approach and urban scale in international offices in Barcelona, Warsaw and Beirut. He is a PhD candidate at Warsaw University of Technology. Adrian Krezlik Is an architect, co-founder of Architektura Parametryczna a platform dedicated to promotion of parametric design and digital fabrication, he has worked for Zaha Hadid Architects, FR-EE Fernando Romero and Michel Rojkind, he teaches at School of Form in Poznan. Tution fee: Warsaw University of Technology 420pln Polish Students 470 pln Polish Professionals 550 pln International Students 160 EUR International Professionals 220 EUR All the prices include VAT.…
component I just used different components and GH tools to do the same - and this become part of my short paper submission for SimAUD 2016). My solution compares the height of the same points of different solar envelope and then chose the lowest one. I read about the improvement you are working on and it is good but I think it is not yet what I need (or how the solar envelope tool could be more complete).
What I need is a solar envelope that would guarantee on different facades with different orientations (the example I sent you) a certain amount of direct sunlight, say 4h per day in a given period for example all the month of June at 60°N. So to guarantee the south facing facade I should chose the vectors from 10 to 14. But these are not ok for all the other facades because in this timeframe the East and West facing facades get only 2 hours and the North get 0 hours.
So the fist step would be have the possibility to chose different sun vectors for different facades. For the example I did (the 4 hours in June at 60°N) the south facing facade would need from 10 to 14, the East facing for example from 8 to 12, the West facing facade from 12 to 16 and the North facing facade from 6 to 8 and from 18 to 20.
If I would chose a single longer time frame that could get all these hours, from 8 to 20 then the resulting solar envelope would result probably smaller than the sum of the four solar envelopes.
But this is not complete yet. I mean the use of different sun vectors on different facades. The reason is that for example when I chose the sun vectors from 8 to 12 for the four hours on the East facing facade how do I know that the sun hit on the facade in that time frame or maybe it is obstructed by surrounding buildings? Since the sun at 60°N (where I live) in June rise at around 3.15 then maybe for that specific facade the sun hit from 4 to 8 and not from 8 to 12.
I did an extreme case talking about 60°N and that maybe the sun hit on a facade at 4 instead than 12, but it is just to make understand the logic. My suggestion for a more advanced solar envelope it should be integrated with the Sunlight Hours tool of ladybug. So the input should not be the sun vectors because I don't know when the sun hit on the facade but the input should be just the desired number of hours and the possibility to specify different number of hours for each facade. Then this last component that sum different solar envelope (I didn't use it yet but I understood what it does) should be integrated yes so the result would be one single solar envelope more likely using the lowest points (the highest I don't understand what for).
Let me know what you think!
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as part of the firm's mantra. As a result of these ideals, my role involved Grasshopper 3D development (alongside other software development roles when needed).
As someone with a programming background, I was at first indifferent on work with a graphical programming language, as I said to myself "I surely can accomplish things done here with much less fluff." Through the six months of use and development, things became more clear both as a workflow of using GH on a canvas or diving deep via Visual Studio. On a lower level, the C# datatypes that are used profusely within the components and the lack of custom datatypes (which IMO is a great thing) makes development and compatibility with existing/future components a breeze.
I personally cannot wait to see what Grasshopper 3D 2 will entail (even though I am not an architect and won't be able to afford a Rhino license after today). David's blog is something I fanboy'd to for a good couple weeks; his thoughts on software development are things that resonate with me. I cannot wait to see this sapling of Grasshopper 3D blossom into an even better product both on the top level and lower level (SDK, documentation, software architecture, speed, rendering, and more) with the second edition. Hopefully, development means David will still be able to find the time and love to allocate towards GH 1, while he's busy changing the world, answering developer's questions religiously, writing documentation, and just being a super human developer in general. David you're an absolute monster. In a good way.
The GH developer's community is small, but the closeness and helpfulness of the community is not meager in any sense. Keep up the paradigm-shifting, making programming accessible to programmers/architects alike, and the incredible user experience thoughts that go into Grasshopper.
Thank you Mostapha, Giulio, Andrew Heumann, David Rutten, and all the acquaintances I got to interact with, for taking the time to read and answer my [often inane] software development questions.
For the next six months I will be going back to classes as part of my Computer Engineering curriculum. Today is my last day at this co-op. For my third co-op, I will be working outside the US (as my CPT/OPT will exceed the allowed 365 days), though the details of which company or country I will be working in unknown yet; will be starting that process in the coming months. My anticipated graduation date is 2016.
Again, thank you all for the sweat, the lessons, the insight, and of course, the fun. It's been a pleasure working alongside you all.
With much appreciation,
theGreenCabbage.
EDIT: A link to some of my work that we released:
http://www.food4rhino.com/project/kt-tools
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tema della modellazione parametrica con Grasshopper. Questa plug-in di Rhino consente di progettare, confrontandosi con un contesto evolutivo, attraverso la comprensione e l'utilizzo di parametri e componenti che influenzano la rappresentazione e la rendono dinamica componendo algoritmi. Nel corso verranno introdotte le nozioni base di Grasshopper approfondendo le metodologie della progettazione parametrica e le tecniche di modellazione algoritmica per la generazione di forme complesse.
Le informazioni teoriche saranno fornite in maniera accelerata ma organica e contestuale agli argomenti elencati. Per massimizzare i risultati, le lezioni saranno accompagnate da piccole esercitazioni pratiche.Argomenti trattati:- Introduzione alla progettazione parametrica: teoria, esempi, casi studio- Grasshopper: concetti base, logica algoritmica, interfaccia grafica- Nozioni fondamentali: componenti, connessioni, data flow- Funzioni matematiche e logiche, serie, gestione dei dati- Analisi e definizione di curve e superfici- Definizione di griglie e pattern complessi- Trasformazioni geometriche, paneling- Attrattori, image sampler- Data tree: gestione di dati complessiStrutturaIl corso ha una durata di 16 ore programmate nell'arco di 2 giornate con i seguenti orari: i giorni 10/11 e 11/11 dalle 10,00 alle 19,00 con pausa pranzo di un'ora.
PrerequisitiPer affrontare il corso è richiesta una conoscenza di base del software Rhino attraverso esperienze teoriche e pratiche. I partecipanti dovranno venire muniti di proprio laptop e con software Rhinoceros 5 o Rhinocero 4 perfettamente funzionanti.Alla fine del corso, verrà rilasciato l’attestato di partecipazione ad un corso qualificato certificato dalla McNeel, valido anche per l’ottenimento di crediti formativi universitari.
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la plug-in Grasshopper. L'utilizzo dei due software permette di esprimere al massimo le qualità e le potenzialità della modellazione Nurbs e Mesh attraverso l'esplicitazione di algoritmi compositivi. Il corso introdurrà alle strategie di disegno digitale finalizzate alla progettazione di forme complesse utilizzando un caso studio proprio del mondo dell’architettura. Si affronterà l'intero processo di modellazione, partendo dal disegno di una superficie complessa; su questa verranno applicati algoritmi generativi per la tassellazione e la riduzione della complessità in elementi ottimizzati per la produzione. Una delle finalità del corso è quindi l’ideazione di superfici complesse, approfondendo metodi di fabbricazione digitale.
Il metodo del corso è basato sulla risoluzione di un esercizio step-by-step accompagnato da approfondimenti teorici che porteranno il partecipante all'autonomia nell'utilizzo di Rhinoceros e Grasshopper. Durante il percorso verranno illustrati applicativi avanzati del software per la pannellizzazione delle superfici (Paneling-Tools). Con il processo illustrato nel corso si vuole rendere il lavoro del progettista più facile grazie alla riduzione dei tempi che portano dal disegno dell’idea, alla costruzione delle forme.
Nella prima parte del corso verranno illustrati metodi avanzati di generazione delle superdici per una modellazione controllata delle FREE FORM. per arrivare a questa condizione sarà necessario approfondire i concetti di spazio parametrico monodimensionale (per la trasformazione lungo le curve) e spazio parametrico bidimensionale (per la trasformazione lungo le superfici).
Nella seconda parte del corso si insegneranno i metodi di esplicitazione degli algoritmi, applicati ad esercizi base utili alla comprensione di Grasshopper; poi la plug-in verrà specializzata affrontando editing, trasformazioni complesse e il problema della tassellazione delle superfici.Buona parte del tempo sarà dedicato alla costruzione di geometrie responsive e alla gestione del flusso dati per l'ottimizzazione del lavoro.…
ucation Research Group in Urban Building Services at the Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), Spain.
The aim of the Research is to generate a digital support for sketching urban and architecture net systems and its interrelationships between them for academic researches.
IE Group Members:
-Sergio del Castillo Tello (Doctor No, Lead Programmer)
-Pablo Gómez Rodríguez (Programmer)
-Prof. Miguel Angel Gálvez
(Architect ETSAM, Building Services Department)
-Manuel Rodríguez Pérez
(Architect ETSAM, Building Services Department)
-Prof. Jose Tovar Larrucea
(Architect ETSAM, Building Services Department, Professor Ad Honorem)
The development of this tools, which are in its very early stage, is planned to take part within the Innovative Group Education research program; We expect to share the results with the community through this group as we achieve them, in case that some of you are interested, or if just want to get involved somehow. Cheers!
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Added by Doctor No at 4:24am on September 30, 2013
thing that MicroStation does (or doesn't). The eternal debate between us is that they focus to the so called BIM aspect of things (and obviously on interoperability matters - that said IFC2*4 is" implemented" in certain Bentley verticals like BA and others) whilst I'm after assembly/component puzzles (and on that matter ... MS ...hmm... to put it politely is not exactly CATIA and/or NX, he he).
On the other hand this paranoid obsession with Level/Layer driven CAD (I hate it) defines a red thick line between CAD and MCAD - because the most intelligent importer can't emulate the way that Siemens NX/CATIA classifies objects - and without control power means nothing.
On the other hand Microstation V9 (...soon) has interesting scripting capabilities (think Modo rather Generative Components) ... meaning that Grasshopper could work there in a rather nice way. I think that I must talk for that to Ray (he recently ditched the ancient legacy MS render engine in favor for the Luxology/Nexus engine). Ray still is negative to buy Act3D mind (hope that you know the mother of visual scripting - the Quest3D VR thing).
On the other hand - within the broad AEC aspect - things these days are different (especially in fast developing countries the likes of UAE, Saudi Arabia, certain ex USSR "democracies" etc etc). Studies are outsourced even at Preliminary Design stage to various sub-contractors (they undertake the Study completion per discipline as well). This means that N separate groups doing M aspects of the whole ... meaning entropy^(N*M) - that's chaos in plain English.
With this in mind I'm quite (a lot) skeptical about the practical meaning of the whole exchange thing in AEC - at least with regard the countries mentioned (not to mention that several portions of a modern AEC thing are made via MCAD apps - chaos^chaos.
I'll back with more focused issues on that matter.
But the big question is: Grasshopper of Generative Components? Well...let's talk serious SS bikes instead: think a Ducati 1198 and a BMW S1000RR (I have them both): which is "best"? The thing is that not always the best bunny is the fasted bunny and not always the fasted bunny is the best bunny.
Cheers,
Peter
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