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based on ‘Bounding box, divide interval and box component’ definition found at ARTC MIAMI / ARTC Miami / (requires registration/otherwise free)

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Planned Spontaneity
by Bojana Vuksanović

Overview

1. Introduction
2. Planning
3. Spontaneity
4. The Issue of Complexity
5. Planned versus Spontaneous
6. Planned Spontaneity
7. Conclusion

Link to a full article

We have just received the news that Pierre Forissier’s Art Fund Pavilion, entered for Cre8Architecture Office is one of the 19 entries chosen to be exhibited at the Lightbox, together with:

• THEVERYMANY, USA, www.theverymany.net
• Tina Manis Associates, USA, www.tinamanis.com
• 3SIX0 Architecture & Design, USA, www.3six0.com
• AREA [Architecture Research Athens], Greece, www.areaoffice.gr
• Alexander Malm, Anna H. Denis & Henrik Börjesson, Sweden
• BCK Design, Canada, www.bckdesign.ca
• Cesare Grifffa, Mauro Fassino, Federico Rizzo, Italy, www.studiogriffa.net
• Diana Dina & Magdalena Vieriu , Romania, www.diana-dina.com
• Feix&Merlin Architects with Martin Stockley Associates, UK, www.feixandmerlin.com
• GABPA architects, USA, www.gabpa.com
• Interlaced (Britta Knobel, Carine Cohen & Florien Dubiel), UK, www.floriandubiel.net
• IN & EDIT Architecture, France
• Karim Muallem, UK
• LINKsignatur, Denmark, www.link-signatur.dk
• Maciej Walczuk, UK
• M. Olejniczak, A. Strzelecki, D. Kabza, M. Janiec, Poland
• Pracownia Projektowa Wloskowicz, Poland, www.wloskowicz.pl
• Swona (Andre Guimond & Evan Erlebacher), UK

More information at the art fund pavilion news website

Congratulations!!

Generative Architecture events in Settimo Tokyo, promoter CASARTARC Settimo Torinese Association. aast is a group of events intended to spread Generative Computational Design, becoming an Advanced Architectural Research International Exhibition. aast gives the opportunity to professionals and students to test a new approach to design, using innovatory tools. aast is a survey of researches on new generations of architects oriented to understand the huge transformation of contemporary architecture perspectives. aast’s aim is the promotion of 3D parametric software, which is able to integrate all the building components and data into one parametric model. All the building information becomes highly manageable throughout all the design and construction phases. aast deals with the parametric software brand-new trend as generating design and extending design creativity. The convention will involve the discussion about complex forms impossible to be generated before and also raise a series of new design theories, methods and tools.

Congratulations to everyone involved, especially to curators Andrea Graziano, Lorena Alessio and Davide Del Giudice for making this event possible.

Parametric pavilion modelled in rhino + grasshopper.

I started the whole pavilion with 5 curbs (that will be lofted) and a grid of perpendicular lines (that will make the ribs of the pavilion).

The build-up (essentialy creating the ribs with adjustable parameters) was made with grasshopper.

And the final frame looks as below

The whole thing was eventually exported to 3d Studio and rendered with vray as this is my favorit combination to render.

You will see that the grasshopper definition is far from short as I did not manage to get the result in any other way.

Here is at last a link to both files http://drop.io/panelion 

As I commented below, this is far from pretty as I ran short of time for the competition and had to get a result.. So any suggestion to make this smarter is welcome!

Once modelled with Rhino, I exported the model to 3d Studio and rendered all with vray. You can download the scene here http://drop.io/panelionscene

A 3d diversion (away from proper work) inspired by fascinating photos on flickr by seier+seier+seier of an agricultural building by German architect Hugo Häring from the 1920s.

Modeled in rhino3d using panelingtools. The timber structural components ended up being curved which isn’t correct, and strictly speaking I could have modeled it using other methods. The trickiest part was probably working out the shape of the component. All dimensions are guessed… Rendered in 3dstudio with vray as always.

An example of a structure which would be much more difficult to model without panelingtools:

Inspired by DRL TEN Pavilion.

Modeled in Rhino with Paneling Tool onto loft surface.

Original panel modeled in SketchUp (see below) and imported into Rhino. Seamless joints are obtained by selecting the loft surface as a base surface after you selected the x, y & 3rd point refs. Simple.

This is a little PanelingTools/rhino/3dstudio/HDR experiment. The panelingtools part was quick and very straightforward, then I dropped it into a home made HDR dome environment in 3d studio and applied a translucent material to the tubes.

I’ve no idea what its meant to be, just a result of getting carried away with panelingtools!

Inspired by theverymany ‘APERIODIC VERTEBRAE’ Experimenting Rhino + Paneling Tools onto simple loft surface . Grid points onto the black vertebrae are linked to Grasshopper as surfaces for future different possible options (presently spheres with diameter plugged to a slider)

Another experiment with the new PanelingTools plugin for Rhino.

UPDATE: There are now some examples and short tutorials on the mcneel labs website for PanelingTools

Here is the result of the ptPanelSurface command on a nurbs surface (the surface is just some ellipses lofted together):

and this shows the object that I used to populate that surface, with annotations showing in which order you pick points with the ptOrientToGrid command:

This was made using the new plugin for rhino PanelingTools.

It can divide a surface into a grid and then orient (flow) objects along it, deforming the objects to fit as it goes.

Lots of fun!

A more complex experiment using grasshopper.

The geometry is controlled in rhino by 5 curves (the black ones) so you can change the shape of the entire structure by editing a set of control points. The size of the various grids that flow over the surface is controlled by sliders in grasshopper.

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I only managed to get so far with grasshopper; the glazing, frame and fabric are made in 3dsmax by copying the triangulated geometry a few times and with a couple of stacked modifiers. If anyone knows how to sort a list of points which are the result of an extrude to point component in grasshopper then let me know..

Grasshopper wrm file. You’ll need to create some control point curves and loft them first, then plug in the loft to grasshopper.

Based on a great tutorial by David Fano (of SHoP Architects) on his blog designreform.net

This 3d form is generated from the following grasshopper script, which itself is a thing of beauty I think:

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The only geometry in rhino is a point, which defines the centre point of the first circle, which is then copied up on the z axis. Both circles are then divided into a series of points, the top one rotated, lines drawn between the points and then all lines are lofted to make a surface…. for the rest you can try to interpret the grasshopper flow chart (which I have annotated to make sense of).

Grasshopper is essentially a graphical interface to rhinoscript, which is based on Microsoft’s VBScript language. For examples of rhinoscript’s use within architecture, check out Marc Fornes’s blog theverymany.net or go to Bedford Square in London to see the DRL TEN Pavilion winner outside the AA by lan Dempsey and Alvin Huang

Here is the grasshopper wrm file if you want to play about with it.

modeled using procedural map

function(s) already available within the program used as controllers of modeling process