Some of the new tools and features that will be included in the upcoming version of Rhino. Modeling tools, rendering and display, the inclusion of Grasshopper, and many more behind the curtain tweaks and improvements!

Mirrakoi has invented augmented CAD, a powerful technology for computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE). Mirrakoi provides software that simulates real-world physical contact during the 3D digital modeling process and provides augmented access to the CAD object. Mirrakoi’s augmented CAD technology enables unprecedented efficiency, precision, and the acceleration of the interactive design process for CAD and CAE. Mirrakoi’s technology is the result of more than 10 years of high-level mathematical research and has been awarded with an international research prize at the ‘IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP)’, which is the primary international conference on image processing and several Swiss national technology-transfer awards. Mirrakoi is a spin-off of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland, and is specialized in spline technology and computational geometry.

Thesis Schulprojekt Aufgabe: Die Aufgabe bestand darin, ein Hallenbad mit einem Holztragwerk in Steffisburg zu planen Konzept: War eine Welle. Organisation: Schwimmbad, Räume etc. Rhino Grasshopper: wurde für alle Elemente und alle Phasen des Projektes verwendet. Von der ersten Skizze bis zum letzten Detail. Mein Ziel: Ich wollte alles in Grasshopper erstellen. Zuerst schaute ich nach Vorbildern und deren Arbeitsweise, dabei konnte ich viel von Firmen wie Front Inc. Oder Zaha Hadid Architects lernen. Mein Projekt waren zu gross für eine Skript, also teilte ich die Skripte den einzelnen Funktionen entsprechend: 1x Skript für Tragwerk, 1x Skript für Fassade … Weiter ist es wichtig, die richtige Einstellung zu haben und zu sagen, ja wir versuchen das so. Wenn man gleichgesinnte Freunde hat ist das auch ein Vorteil, da man voneinander lernt. Weiter wurde auch mit GH die Modelle gebaut. Mithilfe von Laser und CNC Maschinen konnte die digitale Prozesskette komplett gedeckt werden.

Design-to-Production is a consultancy for the digital production of complex designs. The services of Design-to-Production range from consulting for parametric planning, detailing,optimization and digital manufacturing, to the development of parametric CAD models and the implementation of complete digital production chains, from design through fabrication, logistics and assembly.

During the past years, Design-to-Production has successfully worked on projects by renowned architects like Zaha Hadid, Renzo Piano, Daniel Libeskind, SANAA, Shigeru Ban, and UN Studio, including the Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart, the Rolex Learning Center at the EPF Lausanne, and the Centre Pompidou in Metz.

Hanno will give some insight into how Design-to-Production utilizes Rhino to achieve highly detailed fabrication models of those complex structures by setting up a hierarchy of parametric components, including interfaces into structural engineering and fabrication as well as management of issues and general quality control.

The increasing requirements of contemporary design have been accompanied by radical changes in the typical workflow of engineers. The development of CAD and CAE tools has vastly reconfigured the way designers and engineers work and collaborate, leading to a more refined and integrated exchange of data and information. An overview of projects by str.ucture will show how these workflows are managed at multiple levels, from conception, through simulation up to fabrication and construction.

As part of this strategy of workflow integration, a newly developed plugin, Kiwi3d, will be presented. Kiwi3d enriches the CAD design environment of Rhino and Grasshopper with the potentials of Isogeometric Analysis (IGA). Isogeometric Analysis methods unveil significant potentials regarding the computer-aided working background, as they enable to use one consistent mathematical model description (non-uniform ration B-Splines, NURBS) throughout architectural and engineering design phases, while geometry transformations or remodeling (such as meshing) become irrelevant.

In the last 10 years, the AEC industry has been going through major changes, after the financial
crash of 2008 specialist has been looking for new methods of design and construction.
Parametric tools emerged and become a popular design method for architecture and design
companies. Berlin is a true global city of the XXI century, educating and attracting experts and
engineers from all around the globe. We can clearly observe a movement of data-driven,
environmental and social responsible design that is shaping new design paradigm.

The SheltAir pavilion investigates the use of air-filled cushions to rapidly, safely and cheaply erect beautiful and structurally efficient elastic gridshells for events and humanitarian causes. Scientifically developed by Gregory Quinn as part of his doctoral thesis at the Berlin University of the Arts and exhibited at ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory in Berlin.

Elastic gridshells such as Frei Otto’s Multihalle in Mannheim are highly efficient structures, able to cover large spans with very little material or embedded energy. The simplicity of these structures lies in their ability to generate beautiful doubly-curved shell surfaces from slender and initially straight beams. While elastic gridshells are efficient in their built-state, the existing methods with which to erect them are usually associated with significant complexity, cost and time. This method makes use of pneumatic falsework (i.e air-filled cushions)and has the potential to greatly increase the speed of construction for large-span shells (i.e. up to 100m in a matter of days), which would have groundbreaking implications on construction costs and efficiency with promising potential for application in rapidly deployable event covers and shelters.

VisualARQ 2, flexible BIM software for Rhinoceros adds easy modeling of free-form architecture and dynamic project documentation. The new VisualARQ 2 version brings many new features and improvements that will be presented:

• VisualARQ Styles from Grasshopper Components
• Real-Time Vector Output
• Section Manager
• Custom Parameters

At Pilbrow and Partners we have developed under my leadership an architectural design approach that fully integrates the latest available resources in technology, modelling and data. It has helped us to expand our ambition, reach and capacity.

Design innovation and insight are central to our work and we harness a wide spectrum of evaluation tools to assist in research, appraisal and optimisation.

 

Over the past years, we have invested in in-house modelling capabilities to provide accurate real-time feedback on development options. Within my research group have developed these capabilities in response to specific project demands, but we are now using the tools routinely across all new jobs in the office. We believe in the power of in-sourcing: developing our own tools and systems gives us an in-depth understanding of the implications of alternative design approaches. We can work faster, with greater accuracy and we can deliver better results for our clients. The opportunity for architects to harness the power of new analytical and data resources is enormous and we believe the practices that do so will thrive.

 

Rhino and Grasshopper are an integral part of our skill-set and computational prowess and have truly helped to streamline the design process. In this presentation I will show a few of the innovations and technologies we have developed to achieve an enhanced workflow.

Surprise surprise, and other 3D fabrications

Custom eCommerce is growing rapidly worldwide. ShapeDiver enables Grasshopper to be used for creating 3D product configurators across different industries that can be integrated into almost any website. In this presentation we show how simple and powerful this concept is. We will present live examples, announce latest features like the bridge to ShapeWays, and provide a future outlook.

When Chaos Group launched V-Ray 3 for Rhino, it set on the path of bringing designers using McNeel’s versatile 3D modeling application ever closer to the V-Ray overall experience, power and ease of use – with a twin CPU and GPU engine, Swarm, new materials, section cuts. Yet among the huge array of new features lay an addition, bringing a unique new approach to every parametric workflow – a V-Ray RT component within Grasshopper. Which, to put it simply, means observing your design evolving at any moment, without exiting the parametric design plugin. In real time!

Now with V-Ray 3.6 for Rhino on the horizon, things have evolved even further, which you will witness in detail at an exclusive preview of the new version.

 

Der Vortrag zeigt wie in der Grundlehre des Architekturstudiums an der Leibniz Universität Hannover das Thema der digitalen Methoden vermittelt wird. Unser Ziel ist es in einem Lehrformat für 140 Studenten in überschaubaren Einheiten sowohl Expertise zu vermitteln so wie Appetit auf zukünftige Vertiefung zu wecken. Gemeinschaftlich wird so u.A. an einer Konfiguration von parametrischen Blöcken gearbeitet. Jeder Teilnehmer ist Autor eines Blocks. Dabei werden Themen wie Abwickelbarkeit, Schnittmustererzeugung, Sortierung behandelt. Die Inhalte werden in Vorlesung und aufgabenspezifischen Videos angeboten. Modellen dienen der Überprüft der Ergebnisse, die sich aus den Summe aller Einzelarbeiten zusammensetzen. Im Lauf der Veranstaltung wird die Komplexität der Aufgaben erhöht, so dass sich eine Serie von 3 iterativen Großformen ergibt die jeweils ein spezifisches architektonisches Thema haben.

“Update//Accelerate” takes a look at BART//BRATKE’s work as speculative research office and their integration of software in their workflow at the intersection of architecture and mobility, the influence on advancing software and the ability to design for transformative systems. Showing the design and process (Rhino and Grasshopper as enabling tools) for resilient and adaptable architecture systems and installations that can react to the surrounding as dynamic construct with changing needs in real time. The talk will cover the need for adaptive spaces and flexible infrastructure as demands and dynamics of the city change faster than our environment can keep up to and furthermore show workflows how to design non-finite building lifecycles for temporary or nomadic structures and adaptive environments. A prognosis and research on man-machine and machine-machine relationship (automation, self assembly systems, swarm robotic, AI, behavioural assemblies) in speculative design systems and art exhibitions will be elaborated.

AppliCraft is the distributor of McNeel in Japan, and Atsuo will cover how Rhino and Grasshopper are being used there.

Drop3D is cloud application for Rhino, IGES,STL, VRML2.0, obj, read those 3D data format and transform to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) on Web site.

Architekten freuen sich über über möglichst vielfältig einsetzbare Baustoffe. Beton
lässt sich in beliebige Formen gießen und auch Metalle, Holzwerkstoffe und Kunststoffe
sind sehr vielseitig formbar.

Glas bildet eine Ausnahme: Zwar lässt sich auch Glas thermisch verformen, allerdings
ist der notwendige Prozess langwierig und somit teuer. Bei der Mehrzahl der Hochbau-
Verglasungen passt projektbezogen hergestelltes Biegeglas nicht ins Budget.

Das Produkt-Konzept c–c macht den Werkstoff Glas universell kurvengängig und
basiert auf preiswert vorproduzierten Halbzeugen. Die c–c Profile eignen sich für
Fassaden und andere Outdoor-Verglasungen, Trennwände in Innenäumen, sowie
für temporäre Bauten.

The presentation will first introduce the digital design and structure delivery of the Grand Theatre de Rabat (under
construction), done within AKTII team in London. The project, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, includes a 1,800-seat
theatre, a large open-air amphitheatre as part of a national programme of cultural development located on the
Bouregreg River between the ancient twin cities of Rabat and Salé. The complex nature of the programme and the form
demanded an advanced digital design process for the structural design. The most prominent example of the 3D process
is the structural envelope wrapping around the entire building. A highly automated and parametric workflow was set up
creating the geometry of the concrete ribs and shell.
The second part will then introduce the current design development of the Brommy New Footbridge designed by SPANS
associates. The project is a 110m span footbridge along the border of East Side gallery in Berlin. The footbridge is highly
symbolic and monumental, not only a structure crossing the river Spree but a unique opportunity to create a strong link
above the water flow, between East and West in memory of the Berlin Wall. The geometry definition and the structural
design are done in a continuous iterative workflow.

TESSA ist ein Geometriesystem mit dem man dreiminsionale Flächen mit wiederholenden Elementen beschreiben kann, also eine Art LEGO System für die Architektur. Der Entwicklung liegt die langjährige Arbeit der Entwurfsentwicklung dreidimensionaler Strukturen  sowie das Studium von Algorithmische Techniken zur Formgenerierung und Selektion zugrunde.

Designing architectural surfaces which are complex and aesthetically pleasing yet simple and economical to construct is a major challenge in the engineering design industry. TESSA addresses this by allowing complex surfaces to be realised from constrained libraries of customised, tessellating parts.

Architekten und Planer beeinflussen in einer Planungszeit von einigen Monaten maßgeblich die Umweltwirkungen, wie Ressourcen- und Energiebedarf oder Treibhausgasemissionen, die ein Gebäude innerhalb der nächsten 50 oder 100 Jahre verursachen wird. Im Gegensatz zu Fachplanern sind Architekten meist bereits von Beginn der frühen Phasen, bei denen das Optimierungspotential am größten ist, an der Planung beteiligt. Daher haben sie die Möglichkeit die Umweltwirkungen von Gebäuden deutlich zu reduzieren. Die Lebenszyklusanalyse oder Ökobilanzierung ermöglicht es, Gebäude ganzheitlich für den gesamten Lebenszyklus ökologisch zu bewerten und sie wird unter anderem für die Nachhaltigkeitszertifizierung von Gebäuden genutzt. Allerdings wird sie aufgrund ihrer Komplexität zurzeit nicht im architektonischen Entwurfsprozess angewendet. Der Einsatz digitaler Werkzeuge wie CAALA erlaubt es nun in Echtzeit den Lebenszyklus inklusive Energiebedarf im Betrieb und Herstellung, Austausch und Entsorgung von Materialien in Echtzeit parallel zum Entwurfsprozess berechnen zu lassen. Dadurch können Gebäudeentwürfe intuitiv und effizient ganzheitlich energetisch und ökologisch optimiert werden. In dem Vortrag wird die Arbeitsweise mit CAALA an ausgewählten Projekten vorgestellt. Darüber hinaus wird deutlich, wie eine in der akademischen Welt entwickelte Methode mit Rhino und Grasshopper anwendbar gemacht wurde und nun durch ein Startup in die Praxis gebracht wird.

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