NEWS 077

LMNts - Update to GH Graphic Programming Tool
Daniel Davis - A History of Parametric
Daniel Davis - Parametric Typography
Blender CAM - Blender CAM 0.5.0 
BuildZ - Dynamo 0.5.3 update 
Geometry Gym - Oasys Webinar - Linking GSA With Rhino and Grasshopper 
Digital[Sub]stance - NudiBranch 0.028 is out!
Form Follows Functions - mstGeneration
Neoarchaic - Mesh(+)
Guillaume Meunier - LibreOffice Calc XSLT Export Filter to XML
hiroshi jacobs - som’s blackbox studio extends chameleon to dp
I Eat Bugs For Breakfast - Another Galapagos Tutorial
karamba - karamba 1.0.4
karamba - force based design
legildesign - The Way of the Dinosaurs
LMNts - Occupancy Comfort Sensors
MESH - GH and Blender
morphogenesism - many posts
The Proving Ground - Porting Panels for Dynamo
The Proving Ground - Crossing the Streams... with more Interop!
OBJECT-E.NET - reciprocalFrames.ghx
Designcoding - MANAGE RHINO VIEWPORT IN GRASSHOPPER
Designcoding - TESTING SPATIAL DEFORMATION
arcode - Building with Earth | Thin Shell Structures 
A-ngine - [DataViz] - ProgForceDia
AA Visiting school , Bangalore 2013 - TOPOLOGY OPTIMISED SHELL, HyperTHREADS 2013, Mexico
Algorithmic Design - Stochastic Aggregation
Algorithmic Design - Langton's ant
DesignCoding - many posts
Daniel davis - The Future of Architectural Discourse
Blender CAM - Bas relief addon 
echoechonoisenoise - generative hand-made 
Geometry Gym - IFC exchange of Curtain Panels 
I Eat Bugs For Breakfast - Back home
Obuchi Lab - G30 Summer Pavilion Construction Update 3 
sketches[of]code - Adaptive DupliFaces (add-on)
Vitruality - many posts
Nervous System - Kinematics
ParaMod.net - CATIA - Design of Experiments
Karamba3D - SMALL WOODEN BUILDING | PAVILLON IN ALBERSCHWENDE
LMNts - Program Massing Demo
LMNts - Taking a Grasshopper for a Walk
archibureau - CARDBOARD BUILDING – PROCESSING APP

FABbots - DIGITAL FABRICATION ON-SITE

FABbots is the fruit of a series of design & research studios directed by Marta Malé-Alemany in several international schools of Architecture. All projects have been developed in teams, and have benefited from a supporting group of expert tutors and multidisciplinary consultants. 

Link to FABbots website

"Nature Of Code" Tutorials for Python in Grasshopper

Jake Hebbert is translating "Nature of Code" by Daniel Shiffman into the Grasshopper Python environment of Rhino 3d.

Link to Jake Hebbert's youtube webpage

Onix - opensource robotic controlling plugin for GH

Onix i s an open source robotic controller for universal robots currently in beta. Right now onix can generate URscript programs for universal robots using it's inverse kinematic solver with the ability to stream directly to the multiple robots at once.
The set of tools includes Inverse kinematic solver for the non spherical wrist UR10 robots, end effectors and I/O tools, program generation and program streaming components. All the tools are open source under the creative common licence.Feel free to edit update and improve the codes and clusters and share it with others.
The tool was created during the AAC "adaptive architecture and computation 2012/2013" course Thesis , Bartlett school of architecture, UCL, London.

Link to 'ONIX' grasshopper webpage
Link to 'THINKING ROBOTICS' blog

Obuchi Lab

G30 Obuchi Laboratory at the University of Tokyo is dedicated to interdisciplinary design research connecting architecture, engineering, and computations to explore the ecosystems of contemporary urban environments. It seeks to develop and speculate upon new knowledge for architecture, where the practice of design engages in both social constructs and material performances on a number of scales. Its goal is to redefine the role of architecture as the essential element to theorise, conceptualise, analyse, form, organise, and generate new ideas of and for sustainable future–‐built environments.

Link to 'Obuchi Lab'

MASTA project

MASTA consists of a set of software tools which permit the construction of large scale structures and sculptures with the aid of 3D printers and a subsequent manual assembly process.
These software tools work by fragmenting large 3D models into pieces which have a printable size for usual personal 3D printing devices.

Link to 'Masta project'

Betatype / Research

Research into Material & Design through the use of Digital Computation and Solid Freeform Fabrication.

Link to 'Betatype / Research'

Somewhere Something

Somewhere Something is a design, fabrication and education collaboration between man, woman and machine located in a converted warehouse on the Eastside of Los Angeles.

Link to 'Somewhere Something'

Archsim - Energy Modeling for Grasshopper

The Archsim Energy Modeling component for Grasshopper allows you to quickly create multi-zone energy models and simulations for building design. The tool comes with an abstract thermal model class library and various functions such as “early design auto-zoning”, “automated intersections” etc. that assist you with model creation, simulation and result visualization.  Currently, supported simulation engines are Energy Plus 8.0 and ( TRNSYS 17). However, the open library allows you to extend the output functionality for any other simulation package.

Link to Archsim

Magnetic Architecture

Very interesting research done by Gabriel-Bello Diaz, Alexandre Dubor, Akhil Kapadia and Angel Lara at IaaC guided by Marta Malé-Alemany.

'Digital fabrication is emerging quickly in the architecture industry and begins to reinforce the building process into design. Through this emergence comes the focus of natural, recyclable and local materials overlapped with global access to data and digital tools. We are now able to explore the possibilities of merging these technologies together and develop a new system of design. By examining the collaboration of these techniques, what can this tell us for the future of architecture? As this field is gains momentum in exploring the process of production, we were guided to focus on a system in additive manufacturing. The research of Magnetic Architecture explores the use of different sensors and various digital tools to understand the possible trajectories digital fabrication can provide to a future design process. Starting from a material approach, the research focus on the design opportunities of material deposition and solidification within a magnetic fields. By positioning two strong magnets in space it is possible to construct sequential chains of iron-based micro-columns to create complex structural network and wall formations.'

Link to 'Magnetic Architecture' website