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Fabricating Luminance is an intense 2-day workshop focused on the design and fabrication of a luminous artefact through surface manipulation in Grasshopper, Rhino’s parametric modelling plug-in. The workshop will introduce participants to the concepts of algorithmic design and associative modelling through focused design exercises, investigating possibilities for heterogeneous lighting conditions through the differentiation of component-based systems. Each student will have the opportunity to fabricate and construct their own design with the use of our CNC laser cutter. Objects produced will have the opportunity to be developed further and showcased on the online jewellery and product design shop cyberth.com. The design-based workshop will be supported by a series of presentations related to the workshop content.
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Angeles, which has 12% of the year made comfortable, and Shiraz, Iran, which also has 12% comfortable (assuming default parameters).
Jerusalem also makes sense to me. There is only a maximum possible 9% of the year that is inside the polygon (you'll see this if you set the timeConstant to a very high number). The default strategyPar makes 6% of these hours comfortable and 3% without cool enough temperatures in the previous hours. This seems reasonable to me.
I could be convinced to change the default time constant to 12 hours (instead of 8) as I know that 12 is the default of climate consultant but that seemed really idealized in my opinion. You'll need really high exposed mass and insulation without much internal heat gain to make conditions stable for more than 8 hours in my opinion.
As for the solarHeatCapacity, I get changes when I drop it down to 10 W/m2 or boost it up to 100 W/m2. It's definitely a parameter that operates on an "order of magnitude" scale and little tweaks to it won't change it too much. You can think of this number as representative of a lot of other physical properties: most notably the depth of the space being passively heated and the thermal mass of that space's materials that participate in heat exchange over the time constant. Climate consultant uses a default assumption of 30 W/m2 but, from my calculations, this is likely assuming a space that has a facade to floor area ratio that is greater than 1. If we say that we need to raise the temperature of 10 cm of an exposed concrete floor for passive heating purposes, and we have a facade-to-floor area ratio of 1:
Required solar flux = ((1 facade-to-floor ratio) x (0.1 m3 of concrete) x (2400 kg/m3 concrete density) x (880 J/kg-K concrete specific heat capacity)) / 3600 seconds/hour
This lands you with a required solar flux of 58 W, which is almost twice the 30 W climate consultant default. While me might say that not all 10 cm of concrete participates over the course of a default 8-hour time constant (most of the action is probably within the first 5 cm), we also have to account for things like transmittance of solar though the window, which, for triple pane, is probably only half of the incident solar. So 50 W seemed to be a more reasonable rule of thumb from my perspective, essentially assuming a facade-to-floor ratio of roughly 1 with 5 cm of concrete participating in an 8 hour heat exchange and a little more than half of solar heat getting through a fully glazed window.
Let me know if that makes sense or if you have any suggestions,
-Chris…
t, you can see 6 (+) signs with what you can add (A,B,C,P,Q,R).
Let's say you add A = 90 and B = 50.
Now you can't add the third angle (cause its 180-(50+90) = C output).
What you can add at the moment is P,Q,R.
You choose to add P = 10.
There is no more a possibility to add Q and R.
All component outputs now give us the data.
2. Triangle with P,Q,R
When you zoom the component, you can see 6 (+) signs with what you can add (A,B,C,P,Q,R).
Let's say you add P = 15, Q = 20.
Now if you add R, the component's outputs all the angles and edge lengths.
If R > P+Q then component throws warning. (> or >= ?)
You cannot add A,B or C anymone.
3.Triangle with P,Q and C
When you zoom the component, you can see 6 (+) signs with what you can add (A,B,C,P,Q,R).
Let's say you add P = 15, Q = 20.
Now if you add C (angle), the component's outputs all the angles and edge lengths.
You cannot add A,B or R anymone.
To make it all easier, disable the possibility to internalize the data.
Tolerance issue... Maybe round the angles always to floor , with 0.1 precision ?
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Loft is connecting circles on her\his arbitrary way, not counting the wireframe wich is made from Crvs from points.
Like a wireframe in a picture with a last def. from you, such exact Surface I need. Maybe some sweep rail, where a every 2 circles are Rail and a arc (trough 3 point) or segment of interCrv is a section Curves.
At the endeffekt I want to accomplished a worm like a nest, something like a worm city, where people will live in a worms , to create microclima inside ( In direction of B. Fullers dome), it term that one ring(segment) of each worm is a place for 50 or more habitants. Prox. Pro worm 250-500 habitants.
My steps are:
To make a Srf’s from accomplished wireframe.
Then evaluate this surface with Ecotect (that is why I am still using GH 0.6 because of Uto’s plugin for 0.6 and 0.7). And I also have a Rhino 0.4 Sr6
Make a sun reacting facade or pneumocells.
Make a def. to assign a GH def. on multiply Crv’s. For this I need also evaluate a Crv’s length, because of subdivisions number. If I assign the same divisions number to all Crv’s , the longest and the shortest will be divided at same div. Num.! What we don’t see in a nature.
Make a living space inside of worm, with vertical farming, residents, parks etc.... Dividing a worm Srf’s on separated rings (segments) , to count their area. Bigger ring will have a more people and so on...
Make a model :)
I hope that I don’t sound too much pretentious :)…
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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visiting school will continue its engagement with Mexico City from an infrastructural point of view taking advantage of the challenges and opportunities it poses/offers for the viability of one of the biggest metropolis on earth. The workshop will be constructed around key infrastructural issues such as the “Recovering of Waterscapes” and the “Reinforcement of Mobility Networks”. They will form the spine for the intervention through PROTOTYPICAL strategies within a tactical URBANISM framework.
The objective will be to explore and develop the concept of “urban prototype” capable of accommodating change and a degree of indeterminacy within the design process which will acquire its specificity by means of its on-site materialization. Paradigms of self-organized systems, distributed networks and uprising complexity will be introduced through systemic based design techniques, setting up counter models to conventional urban design and planning.
Based on this brief, students will have the opportunity to develop their skills through different methodologies based on the exploration of local conditions, engineering techniques, material processes, and the experimentation with digital, fabrication and representational tools.
The visiting school will run parallel units by AA tutors and graduates from across the school giving participants the opportunity to experiment the different lines of research currently being developed at the AA, in particular the visiting school will directly engage with the investigations within the research cluster “Urban Prototypes “.
In addition to this a symposium and series of lecture will to bring key figures, local and international, directly related to the design of the city (Minister of Urban development, architects and urban designers, authorities, artists among others). The event will finish with students presenting their work to local authorities and relevant actors and a public exhibition of the results.
Eligibility
The workshop is open to current architecture and design students, phd candidates and young professionals. All applicants should submit a CV and portfolio.
Applications
The deadline for applications is 11 June 2012. Application forms and additional information are available online at: www.prototypicalnetworks.net and applications can be submitted to: visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk.
Schedule & Venue
The school runs in summer from 25/06/2012 to 06/07/2012 in Mexico City. This is an intensive, studio-based programme requiring full-time participation.
Accommodation & Costs
Accommodation during the workshop is not provided, but accommodation at an affordable hotel can be advised. The AA Visiting School requires a fee of £695 per participant which includes a £50 Visiting Student Membership, made payable to the AA School of Architecture.…
ial command:create: Divide Curve, Voronoi, Area, Circle
If there are multiple instances of a single component, then you can assign them IDs (according to Ángel's suggestion) using square brackets:create: Divide Curve, Circle[1], Circle[2]You can use numbers or words, whatever you want to identify a component.
Parameters are written in parenthesis, in front if they are input parameters, trailing if they are outputs:Voronoi(C) --> (G)AreaThis will conflict somewhat with components which already use parenthesis in their name, but we can simply consider the first or last parenthesis pair to indicate the parameter. In other words, the ambiguity can be resolved because all alternative interpretations are invalid.
K didn't like my usage of an inverse arrow ( <-- ) to assign properties, I didn't like her suggestion of a different inverse arrow ( <== ). The equals symbol seems to be a halfway decent alternative, eventhough K still doesn't like it:Voronoi = Preview:Off
All sorts of properties can be assigned using this notation, including name, position, enabledness etc.
We haven't decided on a good way to assign initial properties quickly. Your first suggestion [Slider=60] may work in conjunction with the create statement, but it is somewhat awkward. I suppose the logical way for this to work is to simply type:slider = 0..10..50using the shorthand notation for creating a new object (by mentioning it out of the blue) and immediately assigning a property to it.
Does this approach violate some of the goals you had in mind originally?
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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com…
nnovative methods for synthesising drawing and 3D printing. Working with Objet Geometries high resolution, multimaterial liquid 3D printing technology, participants will be involved in an intensive ten-day programme of making and testing 2D, ‘thick 2D’ and 3D digital printing techniques to invent architectural surfaces.
The workshop programme is inspired by British pioneers of art and architectural representation – Joseph Gandy, Robert Adam, James Stirling, David Hockney and John Outram – and informed by Israel’s unique cultural heritage of textiles and ceramics.
The workshop is the testing ground for AA Intermediate Unit 9’s ongoing experiments to blur the boundary between drawing and 3D printing. The objet trouvé, exquisite corpse and other Surrealist and Dadaist techniques form the basis for these investigations.
The workshop’s objective is to deliver an atlas of prints (working with measured drawings from non-architectural
disciplines) from each participant (a ‘3D takeaway’) that they will incorporate into future projects and
publications, giving the workshop a wide-ranging material and intellectual influence.
Participants will work in at least two of four different AA-led design units over the ten days.
The teaching staff also includes Eran Neuman and Aaron Sprecher of Open Source Architecture, as well as Marco Ginex and Adam Nathaniel Furman of Madam Studio, and Arthur Mamou-Mani from the AA
In addition to advanced software tuition, there will be regular evening lectures (invited speakers include
Neri Oxman and Erez Ella) and workshops including a hands-on working session with Objet Geometries
chief software engineer, Yossi Abu.
The final jury will be a day-long presentation/exhibition at the
ZeZeZe Gallery in the Tel Aviv port.
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The AA Visiting School requires a fee of £500 per participant, which includes a £50 Visiting Student Membership fee, made payable to the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
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