Hugo Häring – Lamella Roof

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:

tubes pavilion

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!

blobtecture

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:

panelingtools building

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!

parametric tunnel

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.

basketweave

 

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.