ARUP in Genoa

Dear friends here's just a little but important post..

Degree Thesis Preview

I haven't posted so much this period 'cause I'm going to graduate on 18th of July. Thesis title is:
Computational Morphogenesis in Architecture - Free-Form Spatial Structures Optimization.

I worked in particular on spatial frames (like the great court of the British Museum - Foster + Buro Happold), simulating their behaviour in Rhino with a mesh. In a multi objective aim that concerns geometry and statics I developed algorithms to drive lengths between mesh vertices to a given database of measures, and then to perform mesh state of stress under gravity loads (for this second step I have linked Rhino and Ansys by a memetic algorithm in RVB).
The smaller the database, the roughter the result structures look. The difference from the 'original automatic made mesh', in the case of a hyperbolic paraboloid, is shown below.


Here are 3 benchmarks that I used to test different algorithms. Pink lines represent lengths driven to database measures.


more soon..

CUMINCAD - Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design

http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Home

CumInCAD is a cumulative index of publications about computer aided architectural design. It includes bibliographic information about over 8,700 records from journals and conferences such as ACADIA, CAADRIA, eCAADe, SiGraDi, CAAD futures, DDSS and others. All papers include full abstracts. Full texts, in PDF, of some 6,000 papers are also available.

You can find papers from Burry, Frazer, Kolarevic about morphogenesis, computational architecture, optimization algorithms, etc.
Some papers also dealing with Rhino (Dristas wrote something interesting about scripting..) CATIA, Maya, Nastran...

Art and Transarchitecture

This week at the University of Genoa Giacomo Costa delivered a speech about his work. He is not an architect but an artist that "draws" architecture in a way that, I think, reminds of Transarchitecture style. He makes renders greater than 16000 x 8000 pixels for exhibitions and it takes more or less 15 days to complete one (using 3 top computers contemporaneously). ALL the things in the image have been modelled...

Multipipe

Just a multipipe.. link

Five Franklin Place

http://www.fivefranklinplace.com/

(rhino)SCRIPTScollection_v1.1

In the previous version links did not work correctly...now they should be fixed..

New entry --> W W E K

Iaac and NeoArchaic updated

Peristaltic Pipes v1.1

Bug fixed..

A new version is available in my files. People who downloaded the SCRIPTScollection 3 days ago probably found the old version!

(rhino)SCRIPTS collection 1.0

Hey everibody! Here comes the first SCRIPTS collection!!!

These months while I was learning rhinoscript I found many useful scripts and plugins on the web so I decided to group and sort these just to make it easy to work with them.

The collection is generally divided by author and every button on the toolbar is linked ( just right-click on it ) to the web page where I found the source code.
:::Only plugins and scripts with a source code are inside the collection:::


You can download the rar archive from here and you will find 2 things inside:

1- The folder with all the scripts (you have to save it onto C:\Program Files\Rhinoceros4.0)

2- The toolbar (you have to load it inside Rhino [-->Tools-->Toolbar Layout...])

On the pop-up window you have to select [--> Toolbar-->Import ] and then the file SCRIPTScollection.tb from the folder where you have saved it.

(Usually rhino toolbar files are grouped in :

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McNeel\Rhinoceros\4.0

I suggest you should save it there but it's up to you to decide where to save it...)