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ToRhino Grasshopper workshops - February 2012

2012-01-25T10:09:00.002+01:00

I was invited by Cesare Griffa, authorized rhino trainer of the new ToRhino center, to teach at two Grasshopper workshops that will be held in February in Turin.

Link to "ToRhino training" post

NEWS 069

2012-01-24T16:49:00.002+01:00

n-fold geometry - Ulugh Beg Madrasa
Geometry Gym - Nurbs To Structural Analysis Profile
pyc/weblog - graphical relationship script sequencer on #Sketchup: current progress
Complex Geometry in Architecture - Hanging Chain Simulaiton Tool
Theoremas - Black Narcissus Fabrication
Robots in Architecture - KUKA|prc update
DesignEmergente - Complex System based on particle behaviour
Design reform - 3ds Max - MAXScript Listener
DigitalCrafting - Videos of DigitalCrafting Symposium 2 online
Digital[Sub]stance - Façade Porosity Adaptive to Sun Path Grasshopper Definition
urban future organization - permutations – vb script
Make a Hybrid - Pheromone agent strategies
Kruysman-Proto - EoAT_Paint
I Eat Bugs For Breakfast - Multiple Local Optima
Generative Design - The long standing layout problem
Geometricmind - Simple Typography Design Using Grasshopper
Smart Art - Digital Fabrication: Parallel Pleated Origami Arch
Un Didi - Algorithmic Abuse
Digital Morphogenesis - Of the year – 2011
Architecture In Combination - Ghosts On Top Of My Head
CompDesGrp.org - Architect and Mathematician: Designing the Dialogue
Design Reform - 3-1 Intro to Lists
ianCode - Adaptive Components in Dynamo
LMNts - Grasshopper Canvas with Kinect Interaction: Part 2
LMNts - Grasshopper Canvas with Kinect Interaction: Part 3
a-ngine - [DataViz] - Piechart2Val
Volatile Prototypes - Simple Deformable Systems in Processing
Reza Ali - Generative Typography Experiments
NeoArchic - Lilypod
The Proving Ground - Slingshot! v0.82 Update Available
The Proving Ground - Slingshot! Documentation and Tutorials WIP
MOB-ILITY - Grid: Augmented Reality Gaming
Christopher Whitelaw - Fab Demo : Isocurve Texture
Complexitys - PARTICIPATORY SENSING 1/4 – the data-citizen driven city
Digital[Sub]stance - Kagome VB.Net | New Grasshopper User Object
plethora-project - updates
spatial slur - StreamSurf
Hybrid BioStructures - Design Development/ Analysis of Emergent Form
IanCode - Let the Sun Shine
Association for Robots in Architecture - HAL V0.02 Update
The Proving Ground - The Proving Ground Wiki and Program Lab
Design ReForm - many posts

#FollowYear (my follow friday for 2012)

2012-01-13T13:00:00.005+01:00

Everyone is on the web trying to satisfy his curiousity, interests and needs, trying to increase his passions on certain arguments. Good links are like blood oxigen to our minds, a good link is like a brain stimuli that pushes further our consciousness and knowledge about us and the world around us. So I want to thank you who, during the 2011, made great my time with so many interesting links and thoughts. I know that everyone is different but I want to suggest to my friends to follow them. If links are oxigen, the people who shared information are node through which we can find more oxigen, then others interesting people and improve ourself.

I start my list with Wildcat2030 and Amira Skomorowska. I stumbled into those 2 guys in the first part of 2011 and actually are respectively my unaware mentor and muse. Probably if during this past year I shifted so much my attention from architectural stuff to a more wide range of interests is due to their links and posts. To read their articles is always a pleasure both for eyes and mind (at least for mine).
I want to suggest, especially if you are architects (but not only) to follow the facebook page of Karl Chu. Each of its post is a sort of "paper", an extremely interesting journey into architectural development and future, and also the quality of the replies, usually, are great as people that are replying.
I think that Rachel Armstrong is pursuing one of the most interesting and exciting architectural research (and not only) I saw in this last years. She is a consistent presence on my network and I want to thanks her because, despite her incredible full time work, she finds always the time to comment posts (also mine) writing interesting and useful replies. Her energy is incredible and she is involved in so many activities that I can't summarize all.
I suggest to you obviously to follow the social networks of Kevin Kelly and Sir Ken Robinson. Any comment about them is unuseful and if by chance you don't know who they are ... great ... I'll let you discover their work through their blogs and websites.
Another person I really enjoy reading his posts is Esko Kilpi. His understanding of the value of connections, power of network and social interactions into business field is incredible.
I want also say thank you to Venessa Miemis. She is an incredible blogger and network catalyzer. I really enjoy every posts she did and most of its posted links. She is in my mind, together with Rodrigo Medina (that I suggest also to follow) the icon of the new generation minds, able to capture the flowing energies and potentials and transform all this into high-value real things.
Vitorino Ramos, a very sharp mind & researcher, is another keypoint in my network. I like so much his posts and irony to describe this complex world in its different facets and aspects.
I include in this post also some brothers in arms. Francesco Cingolani, Domenico di Siena and Massimo Menichinelli are italian digi-friends with which I share a lot of interests, visions and probably utopia. But they are also ambassadors of the "brain drain" so well known in Italy. I really like their works and their way to be innovative to use, or better, to utilize the network potential, envisioning the open-architecture of tomorrow.
I can describe the moment I saw for the first time the Edward Harran TED lecture at TEDxBrisbane 2011. For the first time I hear someone describe how I feel sometimes myself into the real/digital world. Actually for me Knowmad idea is really an inspiration and in 2012 I'll try, modestly, to be (I hope) an applicant knowmad.
Another great guy is Jason Silva. I strongly I recommend you to watch all his videos! I really like his ability to transmit and combine easily ideas about complexity, future, innovation, singularity and more with a so strong passion and enthusiasm.
Andrea Kuszewski, science writer, researcher and artist deserves really to be followed also.
In the last months of 2011 have entered in my network also other interesting people as Marianna Limas, Peta Bush, Guido Maciocci, Miquel Lloveras ... so I'm sure they will make great my 2012.
I can't forget my "travel mates" Alessio Erioli and Monika Wittig ... no words can describe how much they are teaching-inspiring me everyday and I'm so lucky to work with them.

We are shaped by the others ... so choose your great ones !
thus for the starting 2012 year ... I wish you a GOOD NETWORK !!!

Andrea

BOULDER FOOTPRINTS - data mining & milling workshop

2012-01-12T22:52:00.002+01:00

LaN director Monika Wittig invites me to be teaching partner for the "Boulder Footprints" workshop , first workshop of 2012 focus 'LIVING FORCES.

Link to "Boulder Footprints" post on LaN website

Lalvani Studio - Sculpture, Architecture, Design, Morphogenomics

2012-01-05T15:18:00.001+01:00

Link to "Lalvani Studio" website

esperant.0

2012-01-05T14:25:00.002+01:00

"Esperant.0 is a beta software plug-in developed by Brandon Kruysman that bridges the gap between industrial robotics and designers. Esperant.0 uses Maya’s embedded features regarding kinematics and skeletons, and uses this as a technique to redefine how designers control the motion of industrial robot arms."

Link to "Esperant.0" website

Call for phd scholarship at CITA

2012-01-05T13:32:00.000+01:00

CITA is offering a PhD scholarship in “Complex Modelling”. The deadline for applications for the 3 year fully funded PhD is at 1. February 2012.

More infos here
Via Digital Crafting

'DigitAG& 2011' e-book

2012-01-02T15:19:00.003+01:00

All the DigitAG& 2011 posts and links are collected in a new pdf e-book.
I hope it can be useful.

Link to the 'DigitAG& 2011' pdf

Christopher Whitelaw

2011-12-29T17:29:00.002+01:00

Very interesting website with a lot of Maya, MEL and Grasshopper tutorials and definitions.
Link to "Christopher Whitelaw" website

PackRat - Bin Packing in Grasshopper

2011-12-21T10:15:00.004+01:00

Another interesting component made by

Volatile Prototypes

Volatile Prototypes
"PackRat is a component for Grasshopper that facilitates the arrangement of rectangular items within rectangular containers with the aim of improving efficient use of space. In other words, it attempts to approximate optimal solutions to the 3D bin-packing problem."

Link to "Packrat" post

Open Energy

2011-12-14T10:21:00.002+01:00

Open Energy Visualization intends to develop a platform to explore new visualization systems and interaction of energy. The system is structured around two dimensions: Open Energy Monitor (Energy Monitoring Device), investigates open hardware devices to monitor electrical consumption and a second dimension, Open Energy Visualization (Data Visualization / Spatial Data Visualization), explores visualization systems in real-time on electricity consumption, allowing us to amplify the awareness around energy.

Open Energy Visualization (OEV) is a software to visualize, in real-time, the electricity consumption in the city. OEV explores visualization and interaction systems on different scales (urban/domestic), what enables new forms of energy-human relationship. Augmentation system for energy data infrastructure will enable a new form of consciousness evolved, that allows us to redefine the energetic systems. OEV proposes, as a visualization prototype, exploring the electricity consumption of Kitchen Budapest Lab @KIBU by monitoring devices DIWO/Open Hardware. OEV tries to be an Open Sofware Platform from which any citizen could visualize electricity consumption of their home-environment.

Real-Time Visualization on Pattern Electricity Consumption in Kitchen Budapest Lab @KIBU.

Open Energy is a project to develop and build open source energy monitoring and analysis visualization tools for energy efficiency and distributed renewable micro-generation.

To the next stage of evolution of the Internet of Things, Open Energy considers the design of a visual system that is inserted into a new energy distribution model (Smart Grids, Tom Raftery) where the invention of technologies will enable a decentralized redistribution production electricity on a global scale, defining new frameworks for sustainable balance.

Open Energy (OE) is a real-time visualization of electricity consumption (kWh) and levels of CO2 (g) issued in the city. OE intends to implement the Smart Grid system design (Intelligent Electric Distribution Networks) through the invention of visualization technologies and autonomous production of energy, allowing greater optimization of the distribution of global electric energy. These visual structures enable new forms of energy-human relationship. The real-time visualization of electricity consumption patterns and the simulation in predicting consumption, constitute new information systems through which to view energy consumption, CO2 levels, nodes with a surplus production energy, real-time value of electricity.

Open Energy Visualization by Fran Castillo

Collaborator : Christian Szucher (KIBU Researcher)

Open Energy Visualization is licensed under a Creative Commons.

Link to "Open Energy" website

RESONATE Festival - Belgrade, 16-17 March 2012

2011-12-09T15:09:00.002+01:00

"Resonate is setting new standards in the arts industry by creating a new platform for networking, information, knowledge sharing and education. It will bring together distinguished, world class artists, with an opportunity of participating in a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture.

International festival dedicated to technology, visual arts, music, architecture, design and interactive media that will include installations, exhibitions, concerts and DJ sets, expert lectures, workshops and round tables…

“RESONATE” is more than just a music festival, expert seminar or exhibition of visual arts. It is a project broad enough to encompass areas ranging from software engineering to visual arts theory, but also to create a bridge between culturally separated segments of the artistic and intellectual scene through a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach."

Link to "RESONATE Festival" website

LAN-FLIGHT EUROPE - January 9-16/17 2012 // innsbruck // stuttgart // barcelona//

2011-12-07T12:13:00.004+01:00

LAN-FLIGHT EUROPE January 9-16/17 2012 // innsbruck // stuttgart // barcelona//

LaN FLIGHT is a seminar / tour of digital fabrication practices & programs. This en-route experience draws a diverse group of design participants from afar for a full schedule of exchanges with leading practitioners, practices, fabrication labs… all while exposed to European transit infrastructure... trains planes & even a few mountain roads.

LaN FLIGHT EUROPE marks LaN's fifth initiative on-the-fly & our first in EUROPE. JOIN us for the full trip or the leg that suits your interests. LaN is looking to attract a geographically diverse group of students & professionals with various design backgrounds. LaN FLIGHT 2012 EU is co-piloted by LaN Monika Wittig & Co-de-iT Andrea Graziano

LaN FLIGHT is looking for highly ambitious-adaptable-endurance oriented participants to fully embrace the nature of this curated experience. Please take a look at our 3 previous editions to best judge if this type of experience suits you. If you are willing to allot 8 days of your life to this pursuit and have no allergies to extreme mobility & group dynamics… welcome to LaN FLIGHT.

For INFO and registration:
http://www.livearchitecture.net/flight

Smart Art

2011-12-07T12:11:00.003+01:00

"Smart Art - A following of Inter-discipline work dealing with the Arts and Technology."

Link to "Smart Art" blog

Maysam's Blog

2011-12-07T12:03:00.002+01:00

Link to "Maysam's Blog" blog

HAL V0.01 - ABB robots (re)programming

2011-12-01T22:27:00.002+01:00

"Hal is a new Grasshopper plugin which allows to prototype RAPID code (programmation language for ABB Robots) very quickly. It is then possible to set entirely parametric code generation for robotized non-standard fabrication of your grasshopper based designs."

Link to "thibault.schwartz " website
Link to "Hal // ABB Robots (re)programming" post

High-Low Tech

2011-12-01T18:12:00.000+01:00

"High-Low Tech, a research group at the MIT Media Lab, integrates high and low technological materials, processes, and cultures. Our primary aim is to engage diverse audiences in designing and building their own technologies by situating computation in new cultural and material contexts, and by developing tools that democratize engineering. We believe that the future of technology will be largely determined by end-users who will design, build, and hack their own devices, and our goal is to inspire, shape, support, and study these communities. To this end, we explore the intersection of computation, physical materials, manufacturing processes, traditional crafts, and design. Watch a recent video about High-Low Tech here."

Link to "High-Low Tech" website

Hyperbody workshop - Robotic Facade Fabrication

2011-12-01T17:24:00.005+01:00

The Hyperbody workshop series presents: Robotic Facade Fabrication
12th-16th December 2011 - Hyperbody Robotic Lab, RDM Campus Rotterdam
Five days of folding, simulation and robotic fabrication

When changing a paradigm, it is best not to even try and improve the old one in any way. It is best to start from scratch. RoboFold is an attempt to completely re-think how metal can be formed. It is system that works with the material and not against it. It is a system built around the gentle bends and sharp crease lines of curved folding in sheet material. It is a system that allows a product to exist at many scales through an iterative design and development process, letting hand folding of paper and other materials naturally exist alongside the robotic folding of metal.

Element: Facade
Leaders: Gregory Epps (RoboFold) and Daniel Piker (Kangaroo)
Material: Aluminium sheet
Hardware: 3-axis CNC router and 6-axis industrial robots
Output: Profiled and folded sheets
Software: Kangaroo and Lobster (Grasshopper plugins)
Computation: Physics engine/ inverse kinematics

Info at:
http://www.hyperbody.nl/about/news/news/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=94&cHash=858cdff47bad72e74d7e285452f66fa2

PARA(noid)module

2011-11-30T16:31:00.003+01:00

"PARA(noid)module is a digital display platform devoted to parametric design, scripting and digital modeling. Computation tools like grasshopper, scripting, processing, digital project and maya are used to calculate and simulate the geometry fabrication and biology relations. Beyond scenarios, a deeper understanding of the logic from nature reference, context, trajectory, morphology and robotic construction to final appearance is established."

Link to "PARA(noid)module" blog

Endemic

2011-11-30T16:28:00.001+01:00

Link to "Endemic" website

Nikolas Weinstein Studios

2011-11-29T17:28:00.001+01:00

"Nikolas Weinstein established his sculpture studio in San Francisco in 1991. His site-specific installations lie at the intersection of art, architecture and the natural world, leveraging new technologies to build works in glass. The sculptures respond sympathetically to the definition of architectural space, and range in scale from small and intimate to very large works."

Link to "Nikolas Weinstein Studios" website
Link to "Nikolas Weinstein Studios" blog

CRESCIT architectural research & design

2011-11-29T17:00:00.001+01:00

Link to "CRESCIT" website

Block Research Group

2011-11-29T16:55:00.002+01:00

"The BLOCK Research Group has five core areas of research: analysis of vaulted masonry structures, computational form finding and structural optimization, fabrication and construction innovation, appropriate construction technologies, and innovation in teaching and learning. This research project introduces 3D-printed structural models for exploring equilibrium (i.e. bending-free) structures. It will further the fields of safety assessment of historic vaulted structures in unreinforced masonry, and design of novel, but efficient shells out of discrete elements. The project is developing a state-of-the-art testing laboratory at ETHZ for structural testing of complex assemblies of discrete elements using rapid prototyping and digital fabrication technologies."

Link to "Block Research Group" website

NEWS 068

2011-11-28T15:40:00.002+01:00

Computational Matter - Paintermetric
urban future organization - mesh closed lines – vb script
Robots in Architecture - Robotic Punching - Revisited
Architecture in Combination - SPM Vector Components: New Release!
Improved - Constructal Theory and Infrastructure
Improved - Swarm Behaviours Workshop Material
urban future organization - quad mesh subdivisions – vb script
The Leda Atomicus - Implicit
Michal Piasecki - WWAA: Polish Pavilion for ITU 2011
The Proving Ground - iGeo: Open Source 3D Software Library for Java
Digital[Sub]stance - Rectangular Panels VB Grasshopper User Object
Digital[Sub]stance - Ora Ito LookAlike – Image HeightField + Attractors + Tesselation GH
MadeInCalifornia - too much posts
Geometry Gym - Grasshopper Mesh to Finite Elements
Geometry Gym - SAP2000 Point Local Axis
ModeLab - APPLIED | Research Through Fabrication
LMNts -Energy Monitoring 101: Open Standards
LEGil Design - Recursive Triangular Image Tessellation
LEGil Design - TIMEless
ianCode - Dynamo and Kinect
n-fold geometry - Bab al-Mansur
Cerver.org - The Locust are here!
tobesch - Subdivision in GH
Digital[Sub]stance - Twirl Attractor! New GH User object
CodeQuotidien - Medial Axis
Eat a bug - Watch Prof. Block’s Lecture Online
{arc:ode} - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...
The Proving Ground - Processing: Custom Paneling Interface
algorithmic design - many new posts
Architecture In Combination - SPM VC: Small But Important Update
Digital[Sub]stance - Multiple Point Attractors GH User Object!
The Proving Ground - Secret Agent Men
nCodon - Cell-f assembly
Geometry Gym - Tributary Areas and Variable Loading
Michal Piasecki - 137kilo: Exhibition of Andrzej Heidrich’s work
Nervous System - Becoming Lichenized

LaN + SOLIDO hands-on workshop

2011-11-18T16:27:00.002+01:00

LaN + SOLIDO hands-on workshop // Rhino-to-Rhinocam / 3 & 5 axis CNC Milling / 3d Scanning
4 evening sessions & 2 weekend day sessions with on-site equipment

This workshop is intended to suit a range of levels– those with no Rhinoceros modeling or CNC machining experience will gain experience working with between modeled geometeries and designing tool-paths for production. Those with previous experience will have hands-on access to taking their understanding further. Sessions are co-instructed by Solido Founder Filippo Moroni & LaN Co-director Monika Wittig.

Workshop will focus on the potential to design in parallel with CNC fabrication technologies. RhinoCam will allow participants to simulate CNC milling effects in the friendly Rhinoceros environment. Instruction will encourage how to add design value without extending economies of time and material. Participants will be introduced to an array of real world examples where a clear understanding of production parameters has driven design potential.

Weekend session will be production-intensive utilizing Solido’s on-site Belotti 5 axis mill. Understand the difference and implications between 3 & 5 axis milling.

SOFTWARE
All instructed software is available for free trial downloads – instructions will be sent to registered participants

Rhinoceros
Use & brief instruction in the workshop will focus on modeling for fabrication – precision, control of free-form surfaces, file organization for machining & iterative design explorations of tool-paths greatly affecting the fabricated form.

RhinoCAM
RhinoCAM is a Rhinoceros plug-in that runs completely inside of Rhino 4.0/5.0. Combining the free-form modeling power of Rhino and the legendary machining capabilities of VisualMILL, this plug-in offers an easy to use yet powerful general purpose machining program for the general machinist. RhinoCAM includes 2-1/2, 3, 4 & 5 axis milling and hole making operations. It comes with hundreds of free post-processors as well as a post-processor generator to create user definable post-processors)

HARDWARE
Belotti 5-axis Milling – TRIM Series – automatic tool changer (on-site)
Artec 3d Color scanner

For info:
http://www.livearchitecture.net/solido

DigitAG& Twylah - news aggregator

2011-11-15T11:59:00.010+01:00

During the last 2 years I have posted a lot onto DigitAG& blog, but more and more onto my Facebook and Twitter accounts. More than 6000 links about generative architecture, computational design, scritping, tools but also science, biology, network, digital fabrication, technology, robots, datavisualization and education.

Now I have collected all my news into a unique webpage.
If you are interested check it out.

DigitAG& twylah page

sketches[of]code

2011-11-15T09:14:00.004+01:00

This is the blog of Alessandro Zomparelli a student of Building Engineering/Architecture at Università degli Studi di Bologna (Italy). He is also a Co-de-iT collaborator, Blender3d user, very capable coder and digi-friend. He is developing a tool to connect Blender3d to processing and others software as Grasshopper.

Link to "sketches[of]code" blog
Link to "Blender Real-time Exporter" post

Responsive Skins

2011-11-14T10:09:00.002+01:00

This blog documents an investigation of responsive building facades conducted by the Yazdani Studio as part of the Cannon Design research initiative. The primary focus is to explore systems which allow individual surface components to vary in their responses to particular local stimuli. We refer to these systems as Paratonic Surfaces, derived from the biological term used to describe adaptive movement in plants.

Link to "Rasponsive Skins" blog

UnitedVisualArtists

2011-11-07T17:29:00.002+01:00

"Established in 2003, United Visual Artists are an art and design practice based in London. UVA produce work at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, live performance, moving image and digital installation.

UVA's team members come from many disciplines including fine art, architecture, communication design, moving image, computer science and engineering.
The cross-pollination of diverse skills inspires new fields of exploration, which is core to
their ethos.

Pushing the boundaries of research, software and engineering with every project, UVA's work aims above all to be meaningful and engaging."

Link to "UVA" website
Link to "Linnaeus" post

OTA+

2011-11-05T22:18:00.002+01:00

"OTA+ is an architecture, design and research office specializing in the application of advanced digital technologies for the visualization and fabrication of projects of all types and scale. OTA+ treats every project as an opportunity to use current design software and CNC (computer numerical controlled) machine tools to both generate and construct conceptually rigorous and formally unique design proposals. We are constantly in search of new tools and techniques to inform our design process and actively look for cross-disciplinary collaborators to push all design related fields forward. OTA+ is based in San Francisco, CA and is led by partners Kory Bieg and Alexa Getting."

Link to "OTA+" website

BREAD

2011-11-05T00:02:00.003+01:00

"The Bureau of Research, Engineering, Art & Design Ltd a.k.a BREAD are a collective of multi-disclipinary individuals with a wide array of skills and talents. We engage with people from small scale artists to major business to develop products and engagements for the physical world"

Link to "BREAD" website
Link to "BREAD" blog
Link to "Designing Hybrid Variable Materials" post

srpLAB

2011-11-01T17:00:00.001+01:00

"Established in 2006 by Santiago R. Perez, srpLAB is focused on rethinking Design + Making in the 21st century, with an interdisciplinary approach towards Architecture and Design.

srpLAB is an interdisciplinary design collaborative promoting research and discovery through MAKING. The confluence of emerging fabrication technologies, generative modeling and interactive architecture, forms the core of our research. The development of new modes of practice linking these forms of experimentation with Environmentally Innovative Strategies for Design & Fabrication, informs our teaching, research and practice.

Santiago R. Pérez, is the 21st Century Chair Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Arkansas School of Architecture. Professor Pérez teaches advanced studios and seminars focusing on emerging modes of practice, exploring fabrication technologies, generative modeling and interactive architecture."

Link to "srpLAB" website

iGeo - Java Computational Design Tool

2011-10-28T10:54:00.002+02:00

"iGeo is free and open source 3D modeling software library in Java for computational design in architecture, product design, interaction design and more. It includes libraries of vector math operations, NURBS curve and surface geometries, polygon meshes and 3D model file I/O. It also has an interface specialized for processing."

Link to "iGeo" website

VERTEX DIGITAL DESIGN

2011-10-28T10:39:00.001+02:00

Link to "Vertex Digital Design" blog

FABRICATION METHODOLOGIES

2011-10-28T10:33:00.002+02:00

Link to "Fabrication Methodologies" blog

MRGD

2011-10-28T10:28:00.003+02:00

"MRGD is a design research collaboration of young architects dedicated to developing an innovative approach towards architecture, urbanism and design. Since it was founded in 2004, MRGD researches on various parametric design tools exploring in parallel the ideas of form finding, self organization and digital manufacturing."

Link to "MRGD" website

Parametric Production

2011-10-27T14:09:00.004+02:00

"Parametric Production researches state of the art digital planning and production technologies in architecture. Parametric Production is a blog focussing on innovations in digital architecture. It is managed by Ante Ljubas and Prof. Rüdiger Karzel, the authors of “Digitale Prozesse” (DETAIL Publishers 2010)."

Link to "Parametric Production" website

Tomasz Starczewski

2011-10-27T10:46:00.001+02:00

Very interesting works and research on Tomasz Starczewski website.

Link to website

PLETHORA PROJECT

2011-10-26T21:37:00.002+02:00

"Plethora-Project.com is an initiative to accelerate computational literacy in the frame of architecture and design. It aligns with the "show me your screens" motto of the TopLap live-coding group attempting to get rid of Obscurantism in digital design."

An impressive ongoing serie of tutorials about rhino-python and processing done by Jose Sanchez.

Link to "Plethora-Project" website

NEWS 067

2011-10-26T18:11:00.003+02:00

Dima's blog - Thesis M.Arch

Dima's Blog - Random Stuff - Randomizer for Revit
Digital[Sub]stance - Point Attractor – Grasshopper GHUser Object
Digital[Sub]stance - Digital [Sub]stance Grasshopper User objects
Arch:Digital - Kinect + Grasshopper
Arch:Digital - Kinect + Grasshopper + Arduino (updates)
Heumann Design/Tech - Aluminum Folding for Sarah Oppenheimer
Ernesto Bueno's Blog - Growing a new L-E-G
Morphogenesism - Generative Algorithms_CaE_Strip Morphologies
P&Alab - Pixel_Lions(grasshopper)
The proving ground - An Energy Model... of Earth? ASHRAE + Slingshot!
ArchitectureInCombination - Dragonfly: New AI Agent engine based only on Perception
Spatial Slur - BifurMoire
P&Alab - snake_Form (processing)
NeoArchic - Project GT
Eat a Bug - Experimental Wood Structures at ETH
Eat a Bug - Open Source Architecture?
n-fold geometry - Floral Pattern On Hex Grid
Woo Jae's blog - Design Thesis, Cornell M.Arch - REORGANIZING PROCESSOF UNITE D'HABITATION
The Geometry of Bending - Hinge Force in Kangaroo
Architecture In Combination - Emitters and Sprites
Space Symmetry Structure - Patents, Precedents and Geometry
Breaking the blanks - Miura-Ori Grid on Vimeo
Elise Elsacker - Osceleton & Kinect in Grasshopper
Digital Design & Computation - Galapagos for Wing Optimization
Geometry Gym - Mesh False Color
Generative Design - Are we like bacteria now ?
The proving ground - Blender Particle Systems with Grasshopper
n-fold geometry - Four Point Stars
z4d - Mantis v0.4 beta
Digital Morphogenesis - Datamining Grasshopper
Cerver.org - Remote Sliders
Cerver.org - Qhull for GC updated
P&Alab - Swarm_Mesh
P&Alab - SinCosSin ( processing )
PARAsite - USC wins NASA grant to design structures on Moon
peer produced space - Super Super: Przemiany Festiwal
PROJECTiONE - Black Acre Prototype
Make a Hybrid - Swarm system with Grasshopper+Ghowl+Kangaroo
MadeInCalifornia - rh_PhyTower wip01
BIOS - Parking Day – with Studios Architecture and Holmes-Culley Engineers
Live Components NY - 4_6 PANELIZED FOLDING
The leda atomicus - 20,000 Agents on Meshes
Digital Morphogenesis - DesignScript – Autodesk
P&Alab - SwarmCell (processing + grasshopper + gHowl + weaverBird)
P&Alab - Swarmy (processing + grasshopper + + gHowl + weaverBird )
Generative Design - Post Parametric Revolution
ahylo - e^zCos(y)=Cos(x)
designedbyenergy - Performative Topologies
Digital Design & Computation - Galapagos for Wing Optimization
Elise Elsacker - EEG and biofeedback architecture
a-ngine - [P5] - swarming
Generative Design Computing - Parametric Origami
Generative Design Computing - Data Trees
Hybrid BioStructures - HYBIOS 4.0/ Modeling Construction Logistics
I Eat Bugs For Breakfast - Obfuscation, fear and loathing.
Performative design - Real-Time Site Analysis - For Android
Volatile prototypes - 2011 / ReactP5 for Processing
A-ngine - [P5] - aggregation
Geometry Gym - Rhino/Grasshopper to Tekla
Dima's blog - In-Place Masses as Utility Elements / Helpers. Part 1 (no API)
Urbana - reef
[n]Codon - Free-form & flat quads with Rhino.Python
New Fabrications for Architecture - Thesis video, sci-arc
The proving ground - Force-Based Data Visualization
[n]igma - emergen[cy]
Live Components NY - PROJECT : La Fabrique Sonore
LMNts - DIVA is Awesome and Everyone Should Use It
MadeInCalifornia - many posts
Digital[Sub]stance - Curve Attractors + Ascending-Descending Attractor Values GH User Objects
The leda atomicus - Mesh Colour Components
The leda atomicus - Vertex Paint -> Grasshopper Extrude
The Proving Ground - What's New in Slingshot! Database v0.8?
Lift Architects - A Five-Axis Robotic Motion Controller For Designers
Eat a bug - Modelling Funicular Structures
Eat a bug - 3D Printed Stone Vault
Geometry Gym - IFC MEP and Reinforcement
Spatial Slur - Smells Like Stigmergy
Blog Binturong - Some Thoughts from Acadia
complexitys - Re-Thinking CAD Standards: Why there's never a good time, and never a better time…
Computational Matter - Pleat Diddy
Computational Matter - Big Bird
Computational Matter - "Hey Nice Tube"
DesignEmergente - Spatial distribution in buildings through Genetic Algorithm, micro scale
DesignEmergente - Genetic algorithms as Generative Design System, half scale
generative design computing - origami | rhinoscript - python
Digital[Sub]stance - Parametric HoneyComb Boundary / 3d Print
Lift Architects - A Five-Axis Robotic Motion Controller For Designers
[n]igma - puffer pleatness
Michal Piasecki - WWAA: private gallery mock-up

ianCode - Dynamo: Visual Programming for Revit

2011-10-26T12:57:00.002+02:00

Dynamo is Visual Programming for Revit

"This project was started by Ian Keough. The intent of this project is to provide a code playground for building interesting parametric functionality on top of that already offered by Revit, and to do so with a graphical interface that allows you to share your work with others less inclined to write code themselves. It has been developed based on feedback from several parties inlcuding Buro Happold Engineers, and students and faculty at the USC School of Architecture."

Link to "ianCode" blog

{arc:ode}

2011-10-25T12:16:00.002+02:00

Very interesting blog about "architecture, geometry, computation & code".

Link to "{arc:ode}" blog
Link to "Fabrication Oriented Parametrics" post

Clever Algorithms - book

2011-10-24T23:09:00.002+02:00

Clever Algorithms - Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes

"The book "Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes" by Jason Brownlee PhD describes 45 algorithms from the field of Artificial Intelligence. All algorithm descriptions are complete and consistent to ensure that they are accessible, usable and understandable by a wide audience."

The book is free in the on-line or PDF version.

Link to "Clever Algorithms" website

KUKA|prc - parametric robot control for Grasshopper

2011-10-24T23:02:00.002+02:00

KUKA|prc is a new parametric robot control plugin for Grasshopper developed by "Robots in Architecture".

Link to "Robots in Architecture" new website

ENCODE - Egyptian Node for COllaborative DEsign

2011-10-24T22:24:00.003+02:00

"ENCODE is a design by research studio created by the collaboration of young architects dedicated to explore innovative design systems on different scales from object to field aiming for a more significant Egyptian presence in the global design market. Based on the mathematical and material logic of natural systems Encode investigate various digital and physical computational tools exploring the potentials of digital design and fabrication techniques to correlate education, profession and design industry.

ENCODE team believes in research as a catalyst of innovation in the design industry. During last few years, ENCODE team conducted a series of workshops, seminars and lectures in computational design and fabrication in Alexandria, London, Vienna, Beijing. Also they have been involved in academic, organizational and professional collaborations with specialists in digital design and fabrication industry in Egypt, Germany, Italy, Palestine, China and UK. During these collaborations ENCODE has found nature as a rich world of inspiration through its mathematical and material logic.

With strategic industry partners and collaborators, we would be able to develop this knowledge through exploratory workshop environments that focus on learning through making with the latest digital design and fabrication systems through team based projects, dealing with the translation of ideas into atoms, shifting scales between study models & 1:1 fabrication prototypes."

Link to ENCODE website

Kruysman | Proto

2011-10-14T13:45:00.002+02:00

Link to "Kruysman | Proto" website

Machinators

2011-10-12T15:09:00.001+02:00

"Machinators documents research and provides resources for design studios, seminars, and degree projects directed by Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser."

Link to "Machinators" blog

ROBOFOLD

2011-10-11T22:41:00.002+02:00

Link to ROBOFOLD website

CodeQuotidien

2011-10-11T22:26:00.002+02:00

"CodeQuotidien · a collection of Computational Geometry for Architecture."

Link to "CodeQuotidien" blog

Designing the Dynamic

2011-10-07T09:48:00.002+02:00

Designing the Dynamic, workshop and symposium, 21-25th November, Melbourne.

"Designing the Dynamic will bring together built environment designers with specialists from mathematics, engineering, computer and material science to explore the design and representation of dynamic systems.
The aim is to build virtual and physical design prototypes and simulation tools and that represent complex trade offs in ways that support intuitive design decision-making.
Multidisciplinary teams of architects, designers, engineers, mathematicians, and scientists will address design challenges that engage the extreme dynamics of air, water and real time response and anticipation.
For immersion in space of extreme change and complexity this event will work from the context of sailing and sail boat design and the complementary pairing within that world of sailor and scientist.
In sailboat racing tiny increments in boat performance are critical to the chance of winning, recorded and tacit knowledge of the experienced sailor are as critical to success as scientific analysis, the fastest route is never the shortest.
Architects, engineers, designers, mathematicians are invited to sharpen their wits together by considering the playoff of hydrofoil and aerofoil, system behaviour and real time tuning."

Link to "Designing the Dynamic" website

algorithmic design

2011-10-07T00:01:00.003+02:00

"This body of work is computational craft that creates consistency and precision within formal explorations. There is a conscious redefining of material constrains through pattern and code, which incubates a search for progressive manufacturing methods. Pure algorithmic design encapsulates the potential for new patterns, which manifest around generative procedures through scripted logic. This abstract material logic embodiment enables an engagement with the complexities of organizational space. Drawn from the purgatory of design, these examples demonstrate a state in computation."

Link to "algorithmic design" website

Immersive Kinematics

2011-10-06T18:46:00.001+02:00

"Immersive Kinematics is a Research Group at the University of Pennsylvania directed by professors Simon Kim and Mark Yim. This group is a collaboration between Penn Engineering and Penn Design and expands the roles of architecture and engineering focusing on integrating robotics, interaction, and embedded intelligence in our buildings, cities, and cultures. The group offers a class teaming architecture and engineering students in mechatronic projects."

Link to "Immersive Kinematics" webiste
Link to "Immersive Kinematics" blog

Radical Craft

2011-10-06T08:51:00.001+02:00

"Radical Craft is a Los Angeles-based research and design studio operating between the fields of architecture, art, and urbanism. Through collaborations with other specialists both inside and outside of this disciplines, radical Craft locates and reworks the exsting logics into unexpected solutions.
This method of research/production takes the sensibility of craft steeped in tradition, expertise and intuition, and injects a critical investigation into emerging technologies and typologies creating new situations which appear both logical and novel."

Link to "Radical Craft" website

Studio AION architecture

2011-10-01T13:10:00.001+02:00

"AION is an architectural practice engaging with the complexity of built environments through an integral approach. Matter, technique and function are treated as a continuum through a design process triggering novelty out of sistematicity and assessing praxis as a form of creative engineering of life. Understanding architecture as essentially involved in the material organization of the living, the office operates within urban and environmental processes seeking for higher system performance across scales and domains."

Link to "AION" website

New Fabrications for Architecture

2011-10-01T12:11:00.003+02:00

Very interesting blog held by Zachary Schoch about masters thesis at sci-arc in Los Angeles, CA.

Link to "New Fabrications for Architecture" blog

W:BLUT

2011-10-01T12:05:00.001+02:00

"On this site you'll find a collection of code experiments exploring generative graphics, complexity, geometry, chaos, particles and anything else that catches my interest. It's hard to find a suitable name for this, art is way too pretentious, algorithms too cold. Constructs seems to be suitable, sufficiently mechanical but with a touch of craft."

Link to "W:BLUT" website

Stochastic Simulation and Lagrangian Dynamics

2011-10-01T11:57:00.002+02:00

"This is the blog-diary created to monitorize the evolution of Rabindranath Andujar's thesis on Stochastic Simulation and Lagrangian dynamics applied to Structural Design. It is intended to extend collaboration with other people, allow the register of the studies, and force a discipline on recording references, lines of study, and whatever else appears."

Link to this blog

designtopology

2011-10-01T11:52:00.003+02:00

Interesting website held by Joseph Choma.

"Design Topology Lab is a research platform dedicated to the ontology of space defined by mathematics. Unlike typical parametric methodologies based on fixed linear hierarchical structures, DTL focuses its work on developing and manipulating flexible generative engines which allow computational worlds to be embedded inside one another. DTL also designs; emphasizing that design is computation. The ruled based logics are made explicit, and used as the primary constraint to design within."

Link to "designtopology" website

Atmos studio

2011-10-01T11:47:00.001+02:00

"Atmos synthesise art & architecture for a better world.
We create beautiful, articulated spaces merging meaning with sensuality, digital with physical, micro with global.
We prioritise content and connectivity, real-time responsiveness and technological innovation, spatial sensuality and articulation.
We design across the scales, from furniture to cities, installations to public buildings.
We use the best available media to do the job in hand, whether timber or LED, concrete or video, text or food.
We aim to sate all the senses, immersing people in ground-breaking kinaesthetic experiences.
We are constantly in search of ways to make the world more pleasurable."

Link to "Atmos studio" website

Fucture.org

2011-09-25T00:07:00.001+02:00

"Space dedicated to share code, work, study experience and information that could be of interest to architects, programmers, developers or any other freaks around the world who think that future is bright for open source and intelligent computational environments."

Link to Fucture.org

Computational Matter

2011-09-12T14:45:00.002+02:00

"Computational Matter is a series of geometry studies through the use of computational tools + sculpting software"

Link to "Computational Matter" website

Urbana

2011-09-12T14:42:00.003+02:00

Link to "Urbana" website

Concrete Fabrication

2011-09-09T14:00:00.002+02:00

Very interesting blog held by Richard Bush.

"…It's the topic for this blog: 'Concrete Fabrication', so called because the present project is investigating fabric formwork in the production of concrete structures.

I'm a Master of Architecture student at the University of Edinburgh and myself and two other students are beginning a studio module that researches 'Disruptive Technologies' within the sphere of architecture.

What are 'Disruptive Technologies?' I shall explain in the first proper entry. But briefly, we shall be looking at two absorbing yet contrasting subject areas where new technological techniques and advances are occurring within the world of Materiality and Immateriality (i.e the physical and digital frontiers) and their influence and incorporation into the field of architecture."

Link to "Concrete Fabrication" blog

Atelier Yukio Minobe | Architectural Ecologies

2011-08-31T10:11:00.002+02:00

A very interesting website.

"Atelier Yukio Minobe was founded by Yukio Minobe as the design studio which explores a new kind of environments integrating of nature and artefact, ARCHITECTURAL ECOLOGIES, in the interface between architecture, biology, ecology, environmental engineering and computer science. The atelier has regarded architecture as organisations through materials' adaptations, emergences and metamorphoses under their environments in nature. ARCHITECTURAL ECOLOGIES has been defined as organisations being specific to material constituents and their environments, which are emerged through the reciprocity between materials' own behaviours and external influences by environments. Based on the definition of ARCHITECTURAL ECOLOGIES, Atelier Yukio Minobe believes not only that investigations into methodologies for generating such ecologies facilitate higher performances in built environments, but also that they lead us towards a new environment integrating artefact with nature.

Currently Atelier Yukio Minobe has embarked on attempts to instrumentalise the wisdoms of nature for generating performative built environments through developing advanced digital methodologies whereby we can replicate the natural system. The methodologies have linked together from extractions of geometries, material arrangements and generative methods in nature, reconstructions of them as computational programmes and algorithms, and searching into artificial environments asymptotic to nature in terms of performances through digital simulations. With essential developments of digital tools and new design processes, Atelier Yukio Minobe has pursued integrated design methodologies whereby a new kind of artificial environment can be emerged along the natural system."

Link to "Atelier Yukio Minobe" website
Link to "A Study on Architecture in Moving Air" post

Generative Algorithms - Concepts & Experiments: Strip Morphologies" by Zubin Khabazi

2011-08-18T22:43:00.003+02:00

Very interesting and useful pdf manual (with Grasshopper tutorials inside) about Strip Morphologies released by Zubin Khabazi.

Link to MORPHOGENESISM blog
Link to "Strip Morphologies" post

MetaMaticZoo

2011-08-14T23:45:00.002+02:00

Blog with some interesting experiments about Grasshopper, dig-fab and arduino.

Link to MetaMaticZoo blog

Relational Geometries

2011-08-14T23:29:00.003+02:00

Blog of the course:
ARC 440/640: Computer Applications
Relational Geometries
Spring 2011
University at Buffalo
The State University of New York
Instructors: Omar Khan and Nicholas Bruscia

"Course Description
This techniques seminar introduces students to the next generation of computer aided design tools that facilitate movement between modeling and material prototyping. It will explore methods and techniques of parametric modeling; an approach to design that frames the problem of form-making as an interaction of multiple material systems. We will take the topic of parameters and variables as a theme to be interrogated through different types of computing , including NURBS modeling in Rhinoceros 4.0, scripting in Grasshopper 0.8 (or newest release), physical computing with the Arduino microcontroller and rapid prototyping with the Universal Laser Cutter, ZCorp 3D printer, CNC Router and Plasma Cutter. The semester will be broken into 2-3 week problems that will focus on specific methods and technologies. We will take inspiration from formal organizations found in nature that aggregate, cluster, crowd, flock, and flow. These will be studied carefully to understand how their dynamic behavior articulates itself into form.

Course Objectives and Outcomes
The course's objective is to use current digital design tools to develop productive techniques for architectural design. Students will become proficient in the use of these tools as well as cognizant of their potential affordance within the design and fabrication process."

Link to Relational Geometries blog
Link to "Reservoir Wall" post

NEWS 066

2011-08-10T14:20:00.002+02:00

neoarchaic - Radial Hexagon
Parametric model - many posts
Buildz - Iron Python Scripting in Revit
BIOS - BIOS-FIN system = Algae Biofiltration to Biofuel Building Facade System
PROJECTiONE - HYPERLAXITY
Urban Future organization - uts open agenda – honourable mention
n-fold geometry - Cross Pattern 4
Volatile Prototypes - Reaction-Diffusion in Processing
[n]igma - semi rigid car
@[UTO] - Mesh Analysis and Utility Component UPDATE v1.0.9.0
the proving ground - IronPython with Vasari
the proving ground - The Supershape Returns... with Vasari and IronPython
the proving ground - Genome Database using Slingshot!
LMNts - ACADIA/FLATCUT Competition Entry
LMNts - Grasshopper Canvas with Kinect Interaction: Part 1
4ofSeven - 1011AA کش Inconsistencies
Cerver.org - MultiExtrude Maya Python Script Added
Alt N research - Project BlackBox – Development
digital[sub]stance - AgentTropism - Agent Responsive Canopy Structures
John Locke - light it up
Hybrid BioStructures - Fabric / Concrete Cloth Testing
Hybrid BioStructures - More CC Testing/ Manipulating Form
I Eat Bugs For Breakfast - On getting lucky in higher dimensions
Generative Design - Digital Sketching
Generative Design - End of the road for the turbo-charged drawing board?
P&Alab - DDD_127 Exhibition Poster :City_God_Image (Processing)
SoftRigid - Dynamic Performance of Nature_13
ModeLab - Grasshopper | Algorithmic Processes
ModeLab - Grasshopper | Object Types
Performative Design - Analytical Space Inspection
PARAsite - AAC Fabrication Workshop
Digital Morphogenesis - CAAD Futures 2011
Heumann Design/Tech - GH Unit Conversion Script
complexitys - Flash and Flux RSS paramétriques
Robots in Architecture - Parametric Robot Control Workshop @ CAAD Futures 2011
the leda atomicus - LoveLace

Decker Yeadon - NY

2011-08-03T16:12:00.003+02:00

"Decker Yeadon is a Brooklyn, New York-based architectural research firm that is as comfortable entering competitions as it is with nanotechnology. Trained as architects but fascinated by chemistry, co-founders Martina Decker and Peter Yeadon are using carbon nanotubes to experiment with new building materials that move without a motor. Their research could lead to innovations such as window shades that open and close depending on the room temperature, no mechanical parts needed. Watch their NanoINK transform an ordinary strip of printer paper into a flexible electrical conductor."

Link to Decker Yeadon website
Link to GOOD website inteview to Decker & Yeadon

Formologix

2011-08-03T10:21:00.002+02:00

"Formologix is an experimental design and research laboratory specializing in exploring digital tectonics and fabrication through the intersection of design, computation, and science. In this website, you will find about our researches,services and collections of our projects as well as a blog documenting the work of our networks."

Link to Formologix blog

CAST | Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies

2011-07-22T22:32:00.002+02:00

"The Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies [CAST] is located within the Department of Architecture at the University at Buffalo.

CAST is devoted to work on the evolving and growing implications of new technologies within the built environment: social, political, ecological, and material. Our various research efforts address the impact of mobile and embedded computing, wireless networks, responsive systems and cybernetics on architecture and the city today. We consider issues like context, embodied interaction and performance as important, rapidly evolving characteristics to contemporary architecture and the city.

We study issues of techné and of technology that are ever-present in architectural discourse, but which have taken on new meanings and questions with the advent of new forms of human-computer interaction. These forms often originate in computer science and in engineering, and include the development of ubiquitous computing, physical computing, as well as parametric modeling and digital fabrication techniques.

One result of these new technologies is an opportunity and a demand for architectural study and practice to reshape their disciplinary boundaries and methods. With this shift, the role of research in the design studio – historical and theoretical as well as material and technological research – grows vitally important and must be rethought. Our Center's research, pedagogy, design work and discourse are unique as a single group within a major research university, devoted to methodically addressing these emerging issues."

Link to CAST website

flowL - grasshopper plug-in

2011-07-22T20:35:00.002+02:00

@[UTO] guys (Thomas Grabner and Ursula Frick) have just released a new Grasshopper plug-in.

"flowL is a plug-in to visualize a vector field, generated trough positive and negative point charges. The path lines are calculated with the "Runge-Kutta 4th Order Method" short "RK4", developed by the German mathematicians C. Runge and M.W. Kutta. around 1900.!"

Link to @[UTO] flowL post
Link to @[UTO]blog

P.S.
Thx very much guys!

SustainableDesignResearch

2011-07-22T15:29:00.001+02:00

Interesting blog held by Enrico Crobu about sustainable design.

Link to "SustainableDesignResearch" blog

DAĞHAN ÇAM

2011-07-19T10:06:00.002+02:00

Very interesting blog about material computation and multi-agent systems in architectural design process held by architect and researcher DAĞHAN ÇAM.

Link to blog

onformative

2011-07-19T09:47:00.001+02:00

"onformative, founded by Julia Laub and Cedric Kiefer in Berlin, is a studio specialized in generative design solutions covering various types of media and topics."

Link to onformative website

designedbyenergy

2011-07-18T17:16:00.004+02:00

Blog held by the architect Giulio Castorina with some interesting tutorials inside about Revit-Ecotect.

"DesignedByEnergy is a place where to share and explore design concepts and theories primarily about environmental design. Regardless of scale the aim is to provide useful insights to architects, engineers, researchers, design consultants and anyone interested in sustainable design strategies, technologies, industry standards and regulations. DesignedByEnergy foresees to establish an open collaborative platform where everyone can contribute to enrich the content. A particular glimpse is devoted to the power of computation to control and achieve energy optimisation, environmental balance and morphogenetic efficiency. DesignedByEnergy ventures novel approaches to analysis and simulation modelling thus enabling high-perfomance energy efficient, environmentally responsive architecture and systems. The content will be mainly delivered through blog news, tutorials and articles."

Link to DesignedByEnergy blog

Digital MED: prorogato il termine ultimo per le iscrizioni

2011-07-18T10:14:00.004+02:00

Prorogato a venerdì 22 luglio il termine ultimo per le iscrizioni al workshop internazionale Digital MED, che si svolgerà a Vietri sul Mare, dal 24 al 31 luglio 2011.
Sette giorni in più, dunque, per dare la possibilità a quanti vogliano avvicinarsi alla conoscenza e all’utilizzo delle più innovative metodologie di progettazione esistenti, di partecipare all’unico laboratorio di progettazione in Italia basato sui processi di fabbricazione digitale e i software di disegno parametrico.

Gli interessati possono scaricare il bando di concorso all'indirizzo www.digitalmedworkshop.com e compilare il modulo di preiscrizione presente sullo stesso non oltre il 22 Luglio 2011.

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The deadline for entries for the DigitalMED international workshop is extended to Friday 22 July. The workshop will be held in Vietri sul Mare, from 24 to 31 July 2011.
This gives seven more days to all those who want to learn the most innovative existing design methodologies and to participate in the one planning workshop in Italy based on the processes of digital fabrication and parametric design software.

Interested parties may download the Notice of Competition at the address www.digitalmedworkshop.com and fill the pre-registration no later than July 22th 2011.

Link al PDF del comunicato stampa

LaNd SANDS IN~FORMATION Workshop - August 2011

2011-07-16T13:37:00.004+02:00

This is a workshop that me and Monika Wittig - LaN we are dreaming and thinking of doing since last year. Now we have the right chance to do it and I hope some (many) of you are interested to join us.

Boulder Colorado USA > Great Sand Dunes National Park > Denver

A ten day migrating summer workshop ultimately exploring digital design & fabrication of structures influenced by live forces– primarily fluid associations between wind & sand & resultant land formations. Can we quantify analyze and engage with the enormous migrating land masses of the great sand dunes national park in Southern Colorado.

Early days in boulder center around outdoor field studies introducing topics of complex geometries and data flows of analog-to- digital mediums. Internationally renown research site visits will compliment these sessions.

Denver provides us with cnc fabrication possibilities @ club workshop denver. Participants will become familiar with lasercutting / cnc routing & 3d printing. A prototype will be fabricated for our live sand studies in the desert.

Some of nature's most dramatic forms will be at our disposal as we migrate south to the great sands national park. LaN is curating a series of stopping points en route. Current plans include reaching just beyond great sands desert to visit one of the nation's largest adobe brick manufacturers.

Workshop finale in Boulder, Colorado ~ pm saturday august 19th ~ at a local public event of global proportions… entrepreneurial in spirit.

Workshop Tutors:
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Monika Wittig - LaN Co-Founder
Shane Salisbury - LaN Co-Founder
Andrea Graziano - Co-de-iT Co-founder
Lorenza Carà - LaN Assistant

Info at: http://www.livearchitecture.net/sands

NEWS 065

2011-07-13T12:26:00.003+02:00

Architecture in Combination - New SPM Vector Components release coming up and a New Project…
Architecture in Combination - SPM Vector Components: Tutorials and Examples
n-fold geometry - Snowflake Pattern
n-fold geometry - Arcs Across Hexagons
n-fold geometry - 5&10 Point Stars
n-fold geometry - Swirl Pattern
Bios Design Collective - Reprap 2D G-code writer in Grasshopper
Blog Binturong - Acoustics for Grasshopper/Rhino
Generative Design - Why co-creation and mass customisation will rely on genetic modelling
Generative Design - Why design will float to the cloud
Geometry Gym - Rhino v5 Extrusions, GeomGym Plugins
Geometry Gym - Grasshopper GSA Form Finding Examples
Geometry Gym - Grasshopper Catalogue Profiles
Geometry Gym - BIM Advancements for Rhino/Grasshopper
LMNts - Med Mart 1: Generation of Facade Geometry
LMNts - Med Mart 2: Panel Texture and Geometry
LMNts - Med Mart 4: Facade Design Coordination
LMNts - Med Mart 5: Panel Fabrication
yet another script? - Daylight – Design|Deformation parameter [Computational design]
DesignReform - RHINO GRASSHOPPER - FUN WITH SETS
Robots in Architecture - Robots in Architecture @ ACADIA 2011
complexitys - Smart Material Aided Architectural Design
Dreamation Workshop - Batch View Capture
Dreamation Workshop - Double-curved Paper Models – Double-Layer Diagrid Unfold Method
Improved.ro - [GH] 3D Voronoi for Grasshopper Update
Improved.ro - [GH] SuperConnect
S.YUAN - 2011 PROTO-ARCHITECTURE | FCU 4th Design Studio
S.YUAN - 2011 PROTO-ARCHITECTURE | TKU 4th Design Studio
S.YUAN - 2011 TKU GECO WORKSHOP
The Proving Ground - Grasshopper > AutoCAD v0.1 Open Source Plug-in!
The Proving Ground - GH+MySQL v0.7.2 Released (w/ ODBC)
peer produced space - "Putting nature to work: Minimal surface porcelain" at DMY in Berlin
peer produced space - Joris Laarman Lab: Digital Matter
the leda atomicus - Blob Detection in vb.net
the leda atomicus - Vb.net curve splitting
the leda atomicus - Unroll, Cells, Mesh Polylines, Reparametrise components
the leda atomicus - Image Based Vector Fields
P&Alab - flower_Window Pattern(rhinoScript + grasshopper + weaverbird + pointReconstruction)
P&Alab - RUYI-2D Pattern (Processing)
Digital[sub]stance - Radiolarion Echinoid Version Script Added
Digital[sub]stance - Flock to Howl – Transferring Data from Processing to Grasshopper
Digital[Sub]stance - Generative Fluid Dynamics by Angelos Chronis
Digital[Sub]stance - Diagrid Panels in VB.net Grasshopper Definition
Digital[Sub]stance - Tatami + Cairo Tessellation in VB.Net Grasshopper Definition
Digital Morphogenesis - DesignScript – Autodesk
Digital Design + Fabrication - Grasshopper: Training Modules
Heumann Design/Tech - GH-Only Catmull-Clark Subdivision
Lift Architects - Projection One
Lift Architects - Firefly + Kinect
Lift Architects - Firefly 1.006 New Features
Spatial slur - A Wooly Example
Spatial Slur - Spatial Binning
Thomas Buseck - emergentTechnologies
eat a bug - OpenStreetMaps for Rhino
@[uto] - Geco for Grasshopper 08 update v1.0.23.0
Urban Future Organization - usyd2011-iain blampied & oliver hessian
Theoremas - Diaphanus
Theoremas - Diaphanus Script
Space Symmetry Structure - New Kangaroo release
Reza Ali - Magneto: An Exploration of Lorentz Force
PROJECTiONE - Riley Sunrise
Nervous System - Hyphae Lamps – an infinite series of lighting designs
muehlseife.de - correlations library
matter design - Temporal Tenancy Installation
NeoArchaic - Tongji – RPI: Collaborative Workshop

RhinoPython¹º¹ Primer

2011-07-03T11:54:00.003+02:00

Available on the Rhino3D website the first release of the "RhinoPython¹º¹ Primer" [PDF].

Link to download webpage

"Sliced Surfaces" GH ws - Torino 8-9-10 luglio

2011-07-03T08:01:00.002+02:00

Sono molto lieto di essere stato invitato dai ragazzi di "ToDo - interaction & media design", nella persona di Giorgio Olivero, ad inaugurare con il workshop di GH "Sliced Surfaces" una serie di workshop di "Better Nouveau". Il workshop si terrà nei giorni 8-9-10 Luglio a Torino.

Per informazioni
"Sliced Surfaces - Workshop introduttivo all'uso di Grasshopper e alla Digital Fabrication"

"I workshop di Better Nouveau sono dedicati alle strategie computazionali applicate al design. Sono corsi intensivi in cui ricerca e formazione affrontano da vicino design generativo, interaction design, digital fabrication e physical computing."

Link al sito di "Better Nuoveau"
Link ai ws di "Better Nuoveau"

HYbrid BIOstructures

2011-06-21T13:42:00.002+02:00

Blog done by Riyad Joucka and Jack Francis.
"A record of the thesis proposal entitled 'Hybrid BioStructures', a dissertation in pursue of an MArch degree at the Emtech program of the Architectural Association."

Link to the blog

IAAC summerschool Torino – 8 scholarship

2011-06-21T13:29:00.003+02:00

8 new scholarships for the IAAC Global Summerschool Torino workshop beginning july 13th:

1 covering 100% of the fee (it gets free!)
1 covering 50% of the fee (2,000 – 1,000=1,000€ fee)
6 covering 40% of the fee (2,000-800=1,200€ fee)

APPLY HERE NOW! (organization deadline june 30th)

To apply for the scholarships you need to fill the application documents that you find here (http://www.iaac.net/educational-programms/global-summer-school-2011-9) and a letter of intention for the scholarship.
The revision committee will review your documents and decide on the scholarship
The total payment must be made before the course starts (deadline to pay July 9).

more info here.

borse di studio per master IAAC

2011-06-21T13:18:00.003+02:00

Anche quest'anno la Santa & Cole Italia mette a disposizione due borse di studio per studenti / neo architetti italiani che coprono il 50% delle fee di iscrizione al master in Advanced Architecture dello IAAC di Barcellona.
Per maggiori info, leggete il flyer qua sopra, leggete il programma del master, o scrivete una mail a info@iaac.net.

[via Cesare Griffa]

apomechanes 2011 computational design studio

2011-06-21T13:08:00.003+02:00

Ahylo Lab is happy to announce the launch of the apomechanes 2011 computational design studio, to be held from the 25th of July until the 5th of August.

Apomechanes is an international intensive computational design studio held each summer in athens, Greece. The studio is devoted to furthering techniques and concepts of algorithmic processes as means for design and fabrication. Apomechanes brings together individuals from divers backgrounds and fields of study to discuss, exchange and collaborate on projects that investigate modes of algorithmic and machinic processes in architectural design.

Please find attached our press release and advertising poster for the coming studio. We would be delighted if you were willing to post an announcement of the launch of apomechanes 2011. Further material and the works from apomechanes 2009 & 2010 can be found at : www.apomechanes.com

Arduino Camp - Milano 18-19 Giugno 2011

2011-06-08T10:47:00.001+02:00

Link to website

YETI

2011-06-01T16:14:00.001+02:00

"Yeti is a live-programming interface for Rhino3d. Using Yeti you can build a parametric model through code and see changes instantly."

Link to the website

PROTO/E/CO/LOGICS// SPECULATIVE MATERIALISM IN ARCHITECTURE | 2 day Symposium | Rovinj Croatia | 6-7 August 2011

2011-05-24T10:03:00.002+02:00

"PROTO/E/CO/LOGICS
SPECULATIVE MATERIALISM IN ARCHITECTURE
SYMPOSIUM / ROVINJ / CROATIA / 6-7 AUGUST

The symposium will tease out speculative directions for architecture that move beyond innocent and reductive approaches to ecology as in notions of "sustainability" and "green". As Slavoj Zizek reminds us, the so called "balance of nature" is in itself a myth since catastrophes have always been an integral part of natural history. Rather than acting from a position of idealization with regards to nature, can we conceive of agency within a condition that isalready artificial, accepting noise and errors, embracing true face of complexity?

Recent tendencies in architecture take a unique point of view, with aesthetically novel and unnatural sensibilities emerging from a close scrutiny and study of apparently natural systems. These speculative tendencies are being driven by mathematical and computational abstractions that transform the way we understand the matter-information relationship. Instead of form being imprinted upon matter, matter is understood as an active agent in its own formation. It promotes dissolution of linear hierarchies, enabling heterogeneous and non-linear nature of complex agencies to hybridize and be incorporated into increasingly complex fabric of architecture. Under this accelerated convergence of matter-information, architecture can begin to speculate its own possible futures within denaturalized material ecology and conditions far from equilibrium.

Symposium is sponsored by Maistra d.d and the Region of Istria
FREE ENTRANCE"

Link to the website

Metamorphic Architecture

2011-05-24T09:38:00.003+02:00

"Metamorphic Architecture - Study of architecture design with metamorphosis

The world is filled with metamorphic behaviors. A caterpillar metamorphoses into a butterfly, and a tadpole metamorphoses into a frog. Besides these individual behaviors, collective behaviors, such as the optimization of ant colony, is also metamorphic (and sometimes emergent). Our trial is to design the architecture of metamorphic artifact by making full use of IT, robotics and smart material technologies. Our vision is to generate the totally new world in which, products lithely react to environmental changes, products create the cosmos through the movement, and products live in symbiotic relationship with human beings. "

Link to the website

NEWS 064

2011-05-23T13:29:00.002+02:00

SoftRigid - Arduino+Metaball

Architecture in Combination - SPM Vector Components: Update

Architecture in Combination - Principal Curvature Orbits

Architecture in Combination - Multi-dimensional Interpolation

Architecture in Combination - SPM Vector Components: Major New Release!

The proving ground - Slingshot! Demo: Querying a Mesh

The proving ground - Slingshot!... to the web???

The proving ground - SQL Code: Create a Mesh Database

Digital Morphogenesis - Threading Grasshopper

Digital[sub]stance - Siphonophore – Physical Computing + Architecture

Digital[sub]stance - HoneyComb Update [ + Hexagon Centroids ]

GH Kinect - Integrating Kinect with AutoCAD

Geometry Gym - Grasshopper - Solver Results

eat-a-bug - Möbius Loop-Pasta

Generic Explorations - Voronoi 3D - GH definition

IaaC blog - MAA Projects: Areaña

SOFTlab - Packed Cubes GH Definition

LMNts - 3D Printing Flexible Grids

digital toolbox - Revised Waffle Definition

notion parallax - Ecotect tutorial

sac3's digital plastic - RhinoScript | Rainbow color RGB table

Woo jae's blog - Component Packing (VB+Galapagos)

Volatile Prototypes - hoopsnake: Iteration in Grasshopper

P&Alab - Pixel_eyes_fish_sharks(grasshopper + T-spline)

peer produced space - NEX Architecture: Times Eureka Pavilion

eat-a-bug - RhinoVAULT - Shell Design for Rhino

Space Symmetry Structure - Pseudo-Physical Materials

Theoremas - Bunny

Cerver.org - Intro to Kangaroo for GC

ArchiBureau - Fabrication of Complexity 2.0

n-fold geometry - Cross Pattern 3

eat-a-bug - Attila Csorgo

GarciaDelCastillo.es

2011-05-23T11:06:00.003+02:00

Blog held by Jose Luis García del Castillo y López. Inside you can find some interesting tests about the HoopSnake Grasshopper plug-in released by Volatile prototypes.

Link to the blog

Link to the "Recursive iteration Iin Grasshopper – HoopSnake tests"

hoopsnake: Iteration in Grasshopper

2011-05-19T14:09:00.002+02:00

"HoopSnake, apart from a legendary creature, is simple component for Grasshopper. What it does in principle is to create a copy of the data it receives at it's input upon user request and store it locally. This duplicate is made available through a standard Grasshopper parameter output. What turns this operation from mundane to actually promising is the fact that the input of the component includes some custom programming to escape Grasshopper's recursive loop avoidance check. What this means in practice is that it is possible through the use of HoopSnake to send the output of a set of components back to it's input in a looping fashion. With the help of a little bit of Data Tree / Data List manipulation, this should open up some new possibilities for iterative process modeling."

Link to Volatile Prototypes website
Link to hoopsnake post

iaac global summerschool – self(a)rchitecture - torino workshop – 13-28 july 2011

2011-05-18T09:22:00.010+02:00

IAAC (Barcelona) is organizing a workshop in Turin within its IAAC global summerschool self(a)rchitecture program.

Local tutors will be: Cesare Griffa, Davide Gomba, Alessio Erioli, Andrea Graziano

It’s a 2 weeks intensive program, from (13 to 28 july 2011) during which we will be thinking architecture in terms of: life sustainable systems, energy consumption, parametric design, software coding, hardware hacking, fabbing, and much more…

for more info: read below and click here to download full program (pdf)

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN: click here to apply!

…..

SUMMER SCHOOL 2011

*part of the IAAC Global School Project - Barcelona-Turin-Mumbai

Self(a)rchitecture
Key words: ecology, metabolism, responsive architecture, artificial intelligence, datadriven structures, open data, multiscalarity, digital fabrication, parametric design

Abstract: The IAAC Summer School for the 2011 academic year will continue to investigate multiscalar strategies for the (re) construction of our inhabiting environments (home, city, planet). The last few years of technological, social, political, economic and cultural changes (at both the global and the local scale) demand that we rethink what kind of habitat humanity will live in in the coming decades, given that space in all its aspects (landscapes, cities, places, buildings and bodies) is undergoing dramatic transformations.
The growing interest in managing climate change, in embracing of the green agenda in urban development, in the development of techniques for local energy generation, in the incorporation of information technology into the physical space and other relevant situations, call for a new vision of the evolution of the city and architecture.
This opens up a wide range of possibilities for the development of projects and initiatives that will help transform habitable spaces in keeping with the new requirements of both global and local users.

Self(a)rchitecture is an agenda with research and education goals that combines science and technology with architecture and urban planning. Self-Sufficiency, Self-Fabrication, Self-Organization, Self-Design and Self-and Collective Intelligence are some of the key words on which the academic agenda of the programme will focus.

The final outcome of the programme will include design proposals and the testing of Self(a)rchitecture at three scales:
Scale 1. 1000 people (urban block)
Scale 2. 100 people (urban building)
Scale 3. 1 person (home, shelter)

Producing Self-Sufficient architectural products means, above all, producing more effective organizational systems. The design of the buildings will have special relevance, equipping them to generate the totality of the energy they consume and creating, where necessary, new physiological and metabolic delimitations of the building.
The proposed buildings will be related to a variety of uses (residential, work, commercial, etc) and their users’ needs (micro scale) as well to the specific context and the sum of groups of information (macro scale) Building structures on all three scales will be defined by a set of parameters, which will drive the final designs. These parameters will be generated by geographical characteristics of the specific sites: latitude and longitude, environmental data (temperature, CO2 emissions) and urban context (density, flow of people).

The building is thus converted into a micro-city, with all of the strata of a small city, and is understood as a complete organism, plugged into a substratum by the managing of the input and output of local data and characteristics. The final structures will be treated not only as independent nodes but also as parts of a network — a new urban layer. Such networks and their dynamics will be explored with a view to understanding how information affects the construction of the physical world, and how cities and their built elements can be seen as informational architecture systems. The intention is not simply to interface with the built environment but to implement strategies that will transform built environments themselves into information systems.

Distributed educational model: The IAAC Global Summer School is part of the IAAC Global School project. The IAAC GS (Global School) aims at generating a dynamic network based on distributed knowledge and collective actions.

As part of this initiative, the IAAC Summer School will take place simultaneously at three different sites: Barcelona, Turin and Mumbai. All of the sites will be connected 24 hours a day via videoconferencing to develop the Self(a)rchitecture project through the sharing of knowledge, techniques and experiences. IAAC Summer School participants will have the opportunity to enjoy a unique distributed academic experience, collaborating with fellow students, faculty and researchers from all over the world in an effort to transform Architecture into a tool/platform for rethinking inhabitation (at the planetary, metropolitan, urban, building and habitat scale) by way of a series of new ideas for creating space for human habitation.

Participants: The programme is aimed at students from a variety of compatible fields, such as Architecture, Engineering, Fine Art, Design, Landscape Architecture, Programming, etc.

Calendar: Programme duration: 13-28 July 2011 The programme is structured in three sections:

1 - Digital Design and Parametric Modelling Wednesday 13 July: Introduction 14-15 July: Design proposal development, Grasshopper Tutorials 16-17 July: Design proposal development, Ecotect Tutorials

2 - Interactive and Informational Development 18-19 July: Special workshop, Living Buildings with Enric Ruiz-Geli, project development 20-21 July: Interaction proposal development, Arduino/Programming Tutorials

3 - Digital Fabrication Prototyping 22-24 July: Project Development, Digital Fabrication Tests, Digital Fabrication Tutorials 25-27 July: Global Workshop (all tutors on site), Final Project Development, Prototype Fabrication (scale of prototype to be announced)

Thursday 28 July: Final Presentation, Guest Jury

Faculty: Fab Lab BCN, Fab Lab Network, more to be announced

Experts: Urbiotica, I2Cat, McNeel, Autodesk, Thales Alenia Space

Guest faculty: Vicente Guallart, Willy Muller, Marta Malé-Alemany, Nikos Salingaros, Antoni Brei, Enric Ruiz-Geli, Massimo Banzi and more to be announced

Local Instructors:

Barcelona: Areti Markopoulou, Tomas Diez
Turin: Cesare Griffa, Davide Gomba, Alessio Erioli, Andrea Graziano
Mumbai: Dipal Kothari-Chhaya, Atrey Chhaya, Renu Gupta, Hemant Purohit

Software: Rhino 4, RhinoCam, Grasshopper, Ecotect, Arduino

Programme Activities: Lectures, Master Classes, Building Visits, Exhibition Visits

References/Bibliography: Successful applicants offered a place at the IAAC Summer School 2011 will be provided with the relevant bibliography, which should be looked through before arriving in Barcelona.

Application Documents: Applications must be accompanied by the following documents:

-A completed IAAC Summer School Application Form (available from applications@iaac.net)

-Current Curriculum Vitae

-A photocopy of a valid passport or other accredited I.D.

-Proof of payment of the non-refundable application fee of 50 euros, payable by bank transfer to the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya Bank: Caja de Arquitectos, Barcelona (Spain) Account Number: 3183-0800-8200-0064-8636; IBAN: ES86 3183 0800 8200 0064 8636; BIC/SWIFT: CASDESBB

Language: The course language is English, and all sessions, classes, lectures and meetings with supervisors are in English; knowledge of Spanish is not required.

Fee: The tuition fee for the IAAC Summer School 2011 is 2,000 euros.

Scholarships: IAAC will be offering seven special scholarships, to be awarded on the basis of the applicant’s portfolio: Three special scholarships of 100% of the total tuition fee Three partial scholarships of 30% of the total tuition fee One special scholarship (Mohamed Omer Scholarship) of 100% of the total tuition fee

Certification: All participants will receive an official certificate from IAAC and the Fab Lab BCN testifying to their participation in the course and accrediting their knowledge of the software used and expertise in Digital Fabrication techniques.

People

IAAC Director - Vicente Guallart

Global Summer School Director - Areti Markopoulou, areti@iaac.net

Global Summer School Coordinator - Tomas Diez tomasdiez@iaac.net

Global Summer School Scientific Commitee - Vicente Guallart, Architect Willy Muller, Architect Marta Malé-Alemany, Architect Artur Serra, Anthropologist I2CAT Nikos Salingaros, Mathematician, University of Australia Florian Foerster, Engineer, BuroHappold Antony Brei, Engineer, Urbiotica Gonzalo de la Camara, Economist

Site Coordinators - Barcelona: Areti Markopoulou Turin: Cesare Griffa Mumbai: Dippal Chhaya

Local Instructors - Barcelona: Areti Markopoulou, Tomas Diez Turin: Cesare Griffa, Davide Gomba, Alessio Erioli, Andrea Graziano Mumbai: Dipal Kothari-Chhaya, Atrey Chhaya, Renu Gupta, Hemant Purohit

Collaborative Companies - Urbiotica, McNeel Europe, Autodesk, Thales Alenia Space

Communication advisor - Pati Nuñez

General Coordination/Admission department - Nota Tsekoura, coordinator@iaac.net

Administration/Communication - Laia Pifarre, laia@iaac.net Tom Zydel. tom@iaac.net

For more detailed information:

Global School Summer Workshop 2011

AA Summer DLAB // 18-29 July 2011

2011-05-12T16:52:00.000+02:00

AA Summer DLAB //18-29 July // Architectural Association, London.

Summer DLab experiments with digital design tools and rapid prototyping techniques as integrated systems of design development. Taking advantage of its unique location within the AA premises in the heart of the London, the workshop will create a vibrant atmosphere not only through its rigorous studio work, but also by its public lecture programme that will share the diverse expertise of professionals from London’s leading offices in the areas of digital design and fabrication techniques.

Experimentation with digital tools and physical assembly techniques will be demonstrated through projects that explore a workflow between computational software, engineering-related analysis and digital assembly procedures leading to physical fabrication.

Participants will have full access to the AA Digital Prototyping Lab for the fabrication of prototypes and models in various mediums and materials, such as 2D milling (laser cutting), 3D milling (CNC), 3D printing and other forms of physical production.

The deadline for applications is 27 June. A late deadline of 11 July is also in effect, but this will incur a £50 surcharge. Application forms and additional information are available online at:

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/d_lab.php and http://dlab.aaschool.ac.uk/ .

Applications can be submitted to: visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk

Centipede - Animation Timeline for Grasshopper

2011-05-12T10:14:00.000+02:00

Centipede is a new plug-in developed by CEED Studio that allows the user to keyframe the animation of multiple objects in Grasshopper along a single slider.

Link to CEED Studio website
Link to Centipede grasshopper group

Slingshot! Grasshopper + MySQL

2011-05-12T09:38:00.000+02:00

Slingshot is a powerful Grasshopper plug-in developed by Nathan Miller which combines the power of parametric design with the most popular open source database: MySQL.

Link to wiki page
Link to the post "Slingshot! Demo: Querying a Mesh"

ECO_LOGIC HABITAT WS - June 27th - July 9th 2011

2011-05-12T08:51:00.000+02:00

ECO_LOGIC HABITAT workshop of performative self-construction

June 27th - July 9th 2011
by Paolo Cascone/CodesignLab
2 weeks of full immersion at Casa dell'Architettura di Roma

in collaboration with:
Fabrizio Carola - NEA e Aga Khan Award Architect
AKT engineering (London)

High-tech design / low-tech-construction

Given the urgent need for a sustainable design able to respond to emergency conditions (social/environmental) this workshop is a concrete opportunity for building a scale 1 to 1 prototype of an eco_logic habitat. The design to manufacture process intends to speculate on temporary and environmentally responsive architectural solutions using low-tech and fast deployment construction techniques.

Thanks to Paolo Cascone's innovative approach in the field of ecological design, the 30 years experience of self-construction projects in Africa of Fabrizio Carola and the tremendous experience of AKT engineering in the field of complex structures, this workshop proposes a new way to bridge high-tech design process and low-tech construction.

This workshop will involve both students and tutors on a two phases project: phase 1 / studio based (parametric modelling and environmental simulations) and phase 2 / self-construction based. This with the aim to explore the cause-effect relations between the material system and its performances according to programmatic and spatial needs.

The construction of the scale 1 to 1 eco_logic habitat prototype will be the output of the environmental parametric design master class directed by Paolo Cascone with the aim of unifying theory with practice trough a self-construction experience. The final prototype will be realised in the garden of the House of Architecture in Rome, the opening of the installation will be the 9th of July with a ceremony open to the public.

Admission Requirements
Eligible individuals must be graduate students in architecture, urban design, engineering, or related disciplines.

Deadline
The deadline for submitting an application is May 25th, 2011

Info
website: Inarch
email : inarch@inarch.it

Co-de-iT - "INFLECTIONS – Affecting Aesthetic" Maya ws - Firenze 24-29 maggio 2011

2011-05-02T15:59:00.005+02:00

Parametric Design with Maya, MELscript & Plug-ins

Maya workshop _ Firenze _ 24-29 maggio 2011

Tutors:
Ludovico Lombardi & Fulvio Wirz (Zaha Hadid Architects, London) + Niccolò Casas

[.] Descrizione

Co-de-iT organizza, un workshop rivolto a studenti, architetti, designer e modellatori 3d digitali.

Il workshop analizzerà ed approfondirà l'utilizzo del software Autodesk® MAYA come strumento di modellazione per il design di forme fluide e complesse tramite l'approfondimento di tecniche generative, fornendo la possibilità di parametrizzarne i processi logici e investigando nuove possibili strategie progettuali.

Il workshop sarà suddiviso in due moduli correati di 3 giorni ciascuno:
.1. introduzione e basi del software: modellazione mesh, NURBS, rendering
.2. parametric design with MelScript & plugins: utilizzo del software e personalizzazione delle tools per strategie progettuali innovative

[.] Dettagli

. partners
IreCoop Toscana

. tutors:
Ludovico Lombardi & Fulvio Wirz (Zaha Hadid Architects, London) + Niccolò Casas

. luogo:
IreCoop - via Vasco De Gama 27 _ Firenze

. durata:
5 giornate consecutive _ orario 9:00 – 18:00

. costo:
professionisti – 500€
studenti – 300€

. note:
scadenza iscrizioni: 9 maggio 2011 – il corso sarà attivato con un numero minimo di 16 iscritti
al termine sarà rilasciato un attestato di frequenza. Gli iscritti dovrano venire muniti dei propri laptop con software (Autodesk Maya 2011 o 2012) installato una versione free per 30 giorni è disponibile sul sito Autodesk®.

. contatti:
iscrizioni + info alloggi: www.irecooptoscana.it
[Cosa offriamo > formazione > altri corsi]
info sul corso:
mail - info@co-de-it.com
website: www.co-de-it.com

scarica la locandina del corso.

Architecture in Combination

2011-04-29T09:19:00.003+02:00

Very interesting blog held by Daniel Hambleton, a mathematician working in the AEC industry.
"Since the official launch of the SPM - Studio for Progressive Modelling, Daniel has worked on projects both locally and abroad, collaborated with established and emerging architects, organized an interdisciplinary discussion series, lectured at the University of Toronto, presented at international conferences, written technical papers, and generally been incorrigibly interested in the interaction between mathematics, engineering, and architecture."

Link to "Architecture in Combination" blog
Link to "Studio for Progressive Modelling" blog
Link to "SPM Custom GH Components" post
Link to "SPM Vector Components: New Release!" post

NEWS 063

2011-04-28T14:10:00.002+02:00

Blog Binturong - Growing the Hyperbolic Soccer Ball
Blog Binturong - Growable Surfaces Update
The Proving Ground - Slingshot! Preview
The Proving Ground - USC Arch 517: Spring 2011 Featured
The Proving Ground - Slingshot! GH+MySQL Released for Testing!
ben coorey - Smart Geometry 2011: Improving the Interface
Digital Morphogenesis - Live Programming in Rhino
Far From Equilibrium - Bristle Chair
XXL Workshop 2011 - many posts
LIFT architects - Smart Geometry - Follow Up
LMNts - Grasshopper Analysis Key
fabulously fabricated - Blend -> Rhino -> Magic
modeLab - 2011SP Pratt | Digital Crafting | Field Trip
modeLab - 2011SP Pratt | Digital Crafting | Final Milling
muehlseife.de - processing particle library
Make a Hybrid - Maya Fluid to Grasshopper link by Matthijs la Roi
PYC/WELBOG - WIP // graphical relationship script sequencer
AltN - Responsive Polymer Research
AltN - Folding Fabrication: RoboFold + Studio Laarman
urbanfuture organization - urban future + acne jeans
n-fold geometry - Eight Point Star
n-fold geometry - Interlocking Arrows 2
n-fold geometry - Cross Pattern 2
Spatial slur - Self Organizing Cont.
Spatial slur - Self Organizing
z4d - Mantis v0.3
Live Components NY - 1_4 GRADIENT PIXELIZATION
NeoArchaic - relative^n(shape)
NeoArchaic - Fabrication 01
Digital Fabrication in Architecture Group - Design to Fabrication Flow Tutorial
Nervous System - video: laplacian growth
OPENSYSTEMS - KTH Workshop Exhibition | May 6-27 2011, Stockholm
P&Alab - Processing and Android (P&A)
Woo Jae's blog - Component Packing (VB+Galapagos)
digital toolbox - schindlersalmerón Create Simple Tool to Fabricate Complex Curves