Rhino in Architecture

A place to learn how to use Rhino in the building industry…

There are many ways to use Rhino in Architecture. This is a set of guides That may help:

• Using Rhino in Architecture
• Rhino to BIM and Back
• Rendering Architecture in Rhino
• Grasshopper
• Enhancing cross-platform BIM workflows with Rhino & Grasshopper

• What is the typical workflow that people use Rhino?
  • Biosciences Partnership Building: Façade Panelization
  • The Morpheus Hotel: From Design to Production
  • From Modeling to Building: Translating Freeform Geometry for Construction
  • SHoP Architects Digital Fabrication Integration
  • "Rhino in your BIM toolkit" at 2018 Shape to Fabrication
• Why do people use Rhino in AEC?
  • Nature and Complexity in Architectural Form by ProArchitect
  • Rhino in Architecture Flyer (PDF)
  • The evolution of computational design
  • What is your profession? Architecture automated.
  • Next Generation of AEC Design by Eli Daher
  • The Future of Architecture by ProArchitect
  • The Future of Structural Engineering
  • Grasshopper Space Planner at LMNTts
  • CoudBased Daylight Simulation
  • Core Studio AEC Technology Symposium 2016
• What are some typical projects done in Rhino?
  • CO Architects Shaping a Roof with Solar Analysis
  • Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum
  • Grid Geometry for the Institute of Peace
  • Study for Apple Store Stair
  • Expo Axis Shanghai
  • Data Driven Design Tamed a case study - HDR partnered with Proving Ground to develop new design tools for Rhino which integrates external data and computational processes. The Data Wrangler enables designers to freely create and analyze architecture using data-driven methods and evaluate the impact of design ideas. Read HDR's blog to hear about how they are using the Data Wrangler with Rhino in their design process!

• How to Rhino MasterClass for Rhino
• Introduction to Grasshopper in Architecture
• Floors and Structure

The architecture process involves many tools and different teams, therefore interop with other BIM products is quite important. Here is a great article on Computation workflows in a BIM process

• Rhino to Revit
• Archicad Plugins - Great Plugins for Rhino and Archicad to create a live connection between the products.
• Cloud based connections:
  • Flux
  • Kunstru for Structural engineering.
    • Why was Konstru Created?
    • What is Konstru?
    • Using Konstru with Grasshopper
    • Konstru to VisuaArq and Back
    • Using Konstru with Grasshopper/ Rhino
  • Speckle

• Tekla Live Link
• Geometry Gym
  • IFC (OpenBIM)
  • Oasys GSA
  • Autodesk Robot
  • SAP2000
  • Sofistik
  • Spacegass
  • Strand7/Straus7
  • SCIA
• Grasshopper

• Karumba
• Kangaroo
• Kiwi3D - Isogeometric analysis is a recently developed computational approach that offers the possibility of integrating finite element analysis (FEA) into conventional NURBS-based CAD design tools.
• RhinoVault
• FREEFORM GEOMETRIES IN WOOD CONSTRUCTION
• FREEFORM RECIPROCAL FRAME SYSTEM

• Computational Design Optimization of Building Structures grasshopper plugin. Very interesting add-on free topological optimization.
• Lattice structural optimization
• Ground structure grid using Karumba
• Architectural Optimization and Evolutionary Systems with Genetic Algorithms
• OPTIMIZED QUAD GRIDSHELL FROM STRESS FIELD AND CURVATURE FIELD

• Machine Learning with LunchBoxML
• Owl Machine Learning in Rhino
• Dodo - Dodo is a collection of tools for machine learning, optimization, and geometry manipulation. Regarding AI, it features neural networks, gradient descent, stochastic gradient descent and swarm optimization. Dodo has tools for scalar, vector and tensor fields manipulation which can be visualized using isosurfaces. Some components are implementations of papers, you can find more info and reference in their html description.
• MACHINE LEARNING AND OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR STEEL CONNECTIONS

Rhino and especially Grasshopper have lead in the revolution of computational design in Architecture and fabrication.

• Essential Mathematics For Computational Design
• Havard GSD Introduction to Computational Design Course
• Texas A&M Course ARCH 655 Parametric Modeling in Design

It is important to learn Grasshopper.

Tutorials:

• Intro to Grasshopper with David Rutten.
• Learning Grasshopepr from Andrew Huemann
• Learning Grasshopper for Architectural students - Parametric House.
• Grasshopper Quick Start Guide from howtorhino.com
• (Paid) Visual Programming in Rhino3D with Grasshopper By Luis Fraguada

Rhino can be used to create topographic maps. The difficult part of the process is understanding the information you have to start and how to massage that information to get to a Topo.

• Getting topo from Google Earth
• Creating a topo from Points
• Creating a topo from Curves
• Creating a topo From Survey information.
• Creating a topo from a mesh.

Daylight:

• Difference between Luminance and Illuminance
• Introduction to Daylight Analysis
• Software and plugins used for Daylight Analysis

Tutorials:

• Ladybug Tools
• HoneyBee Tools
• Diva for Rhino
• Diva for Grasshopper
• Radiance
• Example Tutorial with Diva for Rhino

Links to Daylight Plugins for Rhino and Grasshopper:

• Diva for Rhino - Highly optimized Daylighting and Energy Modeling.
• Ladybug Tools - Daylighting, Environmental Analysis.
  • Ladybug - Climate Data for Environmentally Informed Design.
  • Honeybee - Daylight, Energy and Heat Flow using Radiance, OpenStudio and Therm.
• Photosphere (MAC) and HDRscope (WIN) for Computational photography and lighting analysis

• CFD Analysis with Rhino
• RhinoCFD
• Simerics CFD
• Butterfly - CFD analysis using OpenFOAM

• Example pedestrian weather video
• Quelea Agent Based simulation
• Egress from a space study Kangaroo
• Movement study in space
• Path Map in Grasshopper

• Urban Terrains Digital Lab Tutorials
• Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture by Bradley Cantrell et al. Link:

• Schematic Diagrams
• BIG inspired axonometric diagrams - (Bjarke Ingels Group)
• Tips and tricks with Adobe Illustrator for Architectural Styled drawings
• Rhino to Illustrator Tutorial

• Layouts

• IrisVr
• Enscape
• Modelo
• RMIT Hololens with Rhino direct

• Rendering Architecture in Rhino
• Materials in Rhino
  • Materially better in Rhino
• Material Libraries
  • Flying Architecture
  • PixPlant
• Entourage model files
  • GradCad
  • Design Connected
  • 3D People
  • Cutouts
  • Hdri Skies : HDR Haven, VisPeople
  • Lighting Models: Rendl light studio

• Post Processing for the ultimate renderings
  • http://www.samilolab.it/news/workshop-post-editing-adobe-photoshop-dicembre-2017-samilolab/

• Nesting
• Unrolling
• Topography models
• Paneling
• Preparing for 3D printing
• More about 3D Printing..

• Nick Senske Computational Design Courses YouTube
• Paramarch Rhino and Grasshopper Architecture Courses
• Jose Sanchez would like to share a series of online videos on Rhino modeling in architecture: Modeling the LF-ONE by Zaha Hadid

• Digital Workflows in Architecture Design-Assembly-Industry, by Scott Marble
• SHoP: Out of Practice - An insider's look into one of contemporary architecture's most cutting-edge firms.
• Yes Is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution - A manifesto of architecture as seen by the Copenhagen-based group BIG, told in comic book form
• Architectural Transformations Via Bim A+u Special Issue (English and Japanese Edition)
• Informal by Cecil Balmond. Balmond is making the transition from structural engineer working alongside other architects to an architect in his own right.
• Eric Owen Moss: The New City: I'll See It When I Believe It by Eric Owen Moss (Author),‎ Frank Gehry (Contributor),‎ Jeff Kipnis (Contributor).
• Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures by Marion Weiss et al. explores the potential to shape a new public realm.
• Morphosis Covering nearly a decade of visionary research and design.
• A wide variety of posts on current issues in the new architecture by the institute of digital design Australia.
• BIG, HOT TO COLD: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation

• Digital Fabrication in Architecture by Nick Dunn
• Data-Driven Design and Construction: 25 Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data by Randy Deutsch
• Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques (Architecture Briefs) by Lisa Iwamoto
• Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication 2nd Edition by Christopher Beorkrem
• Advancing Wood Architecture: A Computational Approach 1st Edition by Achim Menges et al.

• The Possibility of (an) Architecture Collected Essays by Mark Goulthorpe, dECOi Architects By Mark Goulthorpe
• Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics By Christopher Hight
• Rethinking Technology A Reader in Architectural Theory Edited by William W Braham, Jonathan A Hale
• Kostas Terzidis library of books is one of the major architects working on that subject.
  • Algorithms for Visual Design using the processing language
  • Algorythmic Architecture
  • Expressive Form
  • Permutation Design - Building, Texts, and Contexts

• AAD Algorithms-Aided Design. Parametric strategies using Grasshopper by Arturo Tedeschi
• Informed Architecture: Computational Strategies in Architectural Design
• Parametric Design for Architecture by Wassim Jabi (Author),‎ Brian Johnson (Afterword),‎ Robert Woodbury (Foreword)
• Architectural Geometry by Helmut Pottmann et al.
• Algorithmic Architecture ~ Kostas Terzidis
• Architecture in the Digital Age Design and Manufacturing Edited by Branko Kolarevic
• Innovative Surface Structures Technologies and Applications By Martin Bechthold
• Autogenic Structures Edited by Evan Douglis
• Practice Architecture, Technique and Representation, 2nd Edition By Stan Allen
• Pamphlet Architecture 27: Tooling by Benjamin Aranda et al.

• On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - The classic
• Patterns in Nature - by Peter S. Stevens Quite an amazing publication by Stephen Wolfram. The book can be viewed online free from here: http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html
• The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants - A PDF download that is a great resource for L-systems, plant growth, etc. In addition there is a extensive library of papers at U of Calgary's Algorithmic Botany Page
• Shapes by Philip Ball is supposedly picking up where D'Arcy Thompson left off.
• Life's Other Secret: New Mathematics of the Living World - by Ian Stewart
• Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design by Peter Pearce
• The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature ~ Philip Ball
• Ernst Haeckel: Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904 - HTML version of the book

• Michael Hansmeyer site, but it's always worth to check it out again
• An evolutionary architecture - a lecture by John Frazer AA school (video)
• Intentionality: the coding of a design concept by John Frazer, lecture (video)
• Digital Ground, Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing by Malcolm McCullough, MIT press
• From Control to Design: Parametric/Algorithmic Architecture by Tomoko Sakamoto
• Scripted by Purpose most of the work exhbited here was curated by skylar tibbits marc fornes of theverymany.
• Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture lecture by Manuel Delanda
• Proceedural Building Information Modeling for Digital Fabrication by Dritsas, S. Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Daegu, South Korea. (PDF)
• Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures 2007 multiple papers including Davis Marques and Robert Woodbury (PDF)
• The writings of Patrik Schumacher are quite useful for understanding an approach towards advanced digital design methods.
• Architectural Design Journal edited by Helen Castle published by Wiley. An Excellent set of publications on current cutting edge architectural issues.