round 2 - parametric workshop series - toulouse

round 2 of the parametric workshop series
voilà le deuxième atelier rhino et grasshopper

Forma by Quayola and Memo Akten

Forma by Quayola and Memo Akten see original post here : designplaygrounds

Studies of human motion sculpting abstract forms.

nervous system - radiolaria

interesting project for trade show display
see more here: http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=2149

GH Surface Subdivision Strategies

check out this post: GH Surface Subdivision Strategies

Tesselated Folding

tesslated folding with grasshopper

Another Equipotential

Iterative Step Modeling - grasshopper

playing around with the HOOPSNAKE TREE ATTRACTOR definition is SO MUCH FUN !

you can get it here: http://www.volatileprototypes.com/about/  - highly recommended website
thanks to Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou -great work !

Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou

Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou

Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou

Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou

Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou

Yiannis Chatzikonstantinou

Playing with Weaverbird

yet another SKELETAL MESH

the must have skeletal mesh exercise

see here for definition
skeletal Mesh gh by Daniel Piker.

First Try - rhino plugin - Equipotential

some first session with the ingenious rhino plugin equipotential

 

check out more great stuff here http://www.sawapan.eu/ and download the equipotential plugin

101 Parametric Truss Tutorial Using PanelingTools Add-On for Grasshopper

and this http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/panelingtools/forum/topics/101-parametric-truss-tutotrial-using-panelingtools-add-on-for

Grasshopper Voronoi to Delaunay Blender Closed

check this out on vimeo

1st Parametric Design Workshop Leipzig

original link on http://verenavogler.wordpress.com/

Programming Architecture - Genetic Algorithms - Structural Optimization Of Free Form Grid Shells - YouTube

next PARAMETRIC WORKSHOP in TOULOUSE

next Parametric Workshop will be taking place in Toulouse, South of France in May 2012 !

For further info, registration please contact: s.wiesenhuetter@artofliving.de

Suspended luminaire inspired by deep space creatures by Jakob+MacFarlane

Original post seen on Evolo

  Dominique Jakob and Brendan MacFarlane have created a light sculpture composed of blades and LEDs, a luminaire specially designed for Moaroom, a Paris-based furniture and art gallery. Since 2004 Moaroom works with designers and artists from New Zealand and presents a selection of creations from the world of design and visual arts. Aimed to explore design beyond the usual scope of trends and patterns, these works are inspired by nature and its needs, and are created in order to respect the environment.

“Both transparent and opaque, this fixture is conceived as a creature from the depths of the sea newly discovered, both unknown and unnamed. It belongs to a dark world, where new sounds, new experiences can be imagined and lived, “say the architects.

The suspended sculpture, composed of thin strips of aluminum and powered by LEDs, alternates between light and shadow. It is a 160x80x45 cm snake-shaped light source that flows organically through space, creating an impression of a moving organism. Hovering above the visitors to the gallery, this item brings the Studio’s continuous exploration of patterns and color into the realm of interior design.

Synthetic Grain by PROJECTiONE

 original post on designplpaygrounds

Synthetic Grain by PROJECTiONE utilizes computational design and digital fabrication techniques to mimic natural grain patterns and organic forms with synthetic manufactured materials. A grasshopper definition was created that adjusts parallel lines around a set of points or “knots” based on proximity to that point. The result is a three dimensionally curved, contoured surface made of laser cut polystyrene that lock into slots in a plywood backer. The project was developed to be made at various scales by changing material thicknesses and number of custom panels. This would allow for development as a building skin, retail storefront, or simply the backdrop for a bar. The manner in which the strips engage the wood allow for changing perceptions as the user moves past. While of the same language, each part is unique to its specific condition, similar to natural systems.
video on vimeo

Bio-Mechanical Pod System Produces Fresh Air

original post from Evolo

The Active Phytoremediation Wall System is a modular system of pods, housing hydroponic plants. Its main purpose is to encourage airflow and contribute to the quality of life through its air cleaning capacities. The project is a result of a collaborative research between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

It is a bio-mechanical hybrid system that produces ‘fresh air’ from within buildings, thereby reducing the energy consumption. Because the plants’ roots are exposed, instead of being buried in soil, the plants’ air-cleaning capacity increases by 200 to 300 percent. The pods themselves are made from vacuum-formed plastic, and the form allows the maximum amount of air to reach the root rhizomes while using the minimum amount of material. It also creates a beautiful base for the plants. The wall system can be installed in large commercial interiors, but works equally well in small settings—a four-module system in an apartment would have the impact of 800 to 1200 house plants.

Researchers: Emily Rae Brayton, Ahu Aydogan

Testbed Site: Public Safety Answering Center II, Bronx, N.Y.

Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, New York—Carl Galioto (technical partner); Gary Haney (design partner); Peter Magill (managing partner); Rob Rothblatt (senior designer); Joseph Sacco (project manager); Carl Brown (technical coordinator); Julie Hiromoto (project team)

Flight Assembled Architecture

original link on designplaygrounds

Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea have launched a pioneering project around training dynamic and robotic procedures applied to architecture. Belonging to the younger generation of architects exploiting the digital tools in the architectural design and construction, Gramazio & Kohler join the engineer Raffaello D’Andrea, whose work concerns the study of algorithms and development of systems autonomous innovation. Together, they created Flight Assembled Architecture, an architectural research on the potential of a revolutionary assembly tool, revealing joint spatial and material previously unpublished. Flight Assembled Architecture is the first installation built entirely by flying robots. Designed as an architectural structure on the scale of a “vertical village” of 600 meters, Assembled Architecture Flight tests a new paradigm of design and manufacturing, through a physical process of automated dynamic training. This project builds on the simultaneous use of multiple mobile agents. Considered as tools for adaptive production, these flying robots are programmed to interact and to capture, transport and assemble the modules to build architectural structures. They synthesize and the pragmatism of Gramazio & Kohler Architecture and visionary approach to Raffaello D’Andrea in engineering dynamics. The FRAC Centre supports this new project, which will ad up to its collection devoted to experimental architecture. This collaborative project will be exposed in the FRAC Centre in Orléans.

Hyperbolic Tower

 Here you can find an excellent article about making a parametric tower
with grasshopper: generative design
(all images from http://geometricmind.wordpress.com)

Post Parametric Revolution

Here is a really very interesting arcticle which proposes that Parametric Design "has had its day in the sun and Post Parametric Design has begun."
link to article by Sivam Krish 

including a video about a parking space generator with grasshopper
by Erick Katzenstein

PolyPops by TheVeryMany

(All images from THEVERYMANY)
Poly Pops is an installation created by Marc Fornes for the Extension Gallery exhibition with help of the Graham Foundation- Premise: any systems can be understood as sum of primitives – theory & science argues that ”the whole can be greater then the sum of its parts” – MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY™ has been interested to translate such ideas into architecture up to its physical realm. The research is based on a simple but extreme premise: the exploration through DIY design and production of structures made of MANY parts. Such quest involves the development of computational protocols for the generation of compound morphologies and descriptive geometry, both combined with a necessary logistic of production. As based on numbers (units, time,…) both are constantly evaluate through efficiency in order to make it happen.
Design intend : the quality of such aggregates structures is depending on population / numbers. In order to reach the inherent qualities of distributed field condition one needs MANY singular elements.
Geometry test : (the continuum of a long series of investigation) – minimum of primitives, maximum of diversity.
a minimum of primitives has an interesting property in terms of logistic: it allows to afford molding techniques – as the efficiency for a mold is exponential with number of replicate (due to the original effort and cost needed to develop one).
Material test : written within a series of installation investigating Do It Yourself modes of production, looking into ways to reduce time of production for a single elements in order to be able to produce many. The premise of the research was seeking a time cap less than 30 mins to produce one single finished element of certain complexity in terms of geometry.

 original post on designplaygrounds

light machine by Tomasz Starczewski

In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a special kind of decomposition of a metric space determined by distances to a specified discrete set of objects in the space, e.g., by a discrete set of points. It is named after Georgy Voronoi, also called a Voronoi tessellation, a Voronoi decomposition, or a Dirichlet tessellation (after Lejeune Dirichlet), In the simplest case, we are given a set of points S in the plane, which are the Voronoi sites. Each site s has a Voronoi cell, also called a Dirichlet cell, V(s) consisting of all points closer to s than to any other site. The segments of the Voronoi diagram are all the points in the plane that are equidistant to the two nearest sites. The Voronoi nodes are the points equidistant to three (or more) sites.

A point location data structure can be built on top of the Voronoi diagram in order to answer nearest neighbor queries, where one wants to find the object that is closest to a given query point. Nearest neighbor queries have numerous applications. For example, when one wants to find the nearest hospital, or the most similar object in a database. A large application is vector quantization, commonly used in data compression. With a given Voronoi diagram, one can also find the largest empty circle amongst a set of points, and in an enclosing polygon; e.g. to build a new supermarket as far as possible from all the existing ones, lying in a certain city. The Voronoi diagram is useful in polymer physics. It can be used to represent free volume of the polymer. It is also used in derivations of the capacity of a wireless network.

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