June 2012 Blog Posts (28)

Phototropia is part of an ongoing series on the application of smart materials in an architectural context and was realized in April 2012 by the Master of Advanced Studies class at the Chair for CAAD, supervised by Manuel Kretzer.…

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Parametrische Entwurfstechnik revolutioniert derzeit die Architektur



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Nice! you just finished your design. This time you thought, up yours with all that minimalism. This time for my façade I'm going to use a lot of different colours, in fact all the colours of the rainbow, in some fancy parametric way. Then its done, it's the shit, everything is where it needs to be. But then.... you get the colour chart send from the manufacturer, with the actual pantone colours. In other words real-life-colours, if you would be so kind to transform your 'screen'-colours into…

Check out our third post in our series on the design of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio, TX.  The post focuses on the modeling of the feature wall which is the theater's face into the…

Hi everyone, 

I appreciate the interest in this post. It´s been a while and actually it was just a first practice of Grasshopper. Even though I found the definition and could post it here. 03_voronoi exercise

Still, the Voronoi algorithms are super interesting as they appear in so many places in nature aswell. As an example the wing of a dragonfly. Interesting…

How far are we of having web based grasshopper definitions that could be modified by anyone via web? For example, online shops could offer online-customizable products.

This can already be done using processing but then we loose all what we all love of grasshopper. Does anyone know of any alternative to this? In fact Chrysalis proposed a kickstarter project with the aim to convert a gh def to processing, do you think that this is the shortest way to…