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:

Panelion

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.

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!

Panel evo

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)

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!