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Rhino in Architecture
A place to learn how to use Rhino in the building industry…
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There are many ways to use Rhino in Architecture. This is a set of guides That may help:
Using Rhino in Architecture
- What is the typical workflow that people use Rhino?
- Why do people use Rhino in AEC?
- What are some typical projects done in Rhino?
- 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!
Learning Rhino in Architecture
Rhino to BIM and Back
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
- Archicad Plugins - Great Plugins for Rhino and Archicad to create a live connection between the products.
- Cloud based connections:
- Kunstru for Structural engineering.
Structural Engineering with Rhino
Interoperability with Sturctural software
Quick analysis with Rhino
- 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.
Optimization
- Computational Design Optimization of Building Structures grasshopper plugin. Very interesting add-on free topological optimization.
Machine Learning
- 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.
Computational Design
Rhino and especially Grasshopper have lead in the revolution of computational design in Architecture and fabrication.
Learning Grasshopper
It is important to learn Grasshopper.
Tutorials:
Using Rhino for Topography
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.
Analysis with Rhino
Environmental Analysis
Daylight:
Tutorials:
Links to Daylight Plugins for Rhino and Grasshopper:
- Diva for Rhino - Highly optimized Daylighting and Energy Modeling.
- Ladybug Tools - Daylighting, Environmental Analysis.
- Photosphere (MAC) and HDRscope (WIN) for Computational photography and lighting analysis
Wind and CFD
- Butterfly - CFD analysis using OpenFOAM
Pedestrian Studies Grasshopper
Rhino and Urban Planning
- Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture by Bradley Cantrell et al. Link:
Architectural Visualization
Creating Architectural Style Drawings
Sections and Drawings with Rhino
Using Rhino with VR
- IrisVr
- Enscape
- RMIT Hololens with Rhino direct
Rendering
- Materials in Rhino
- Material Libraries
- Entourage model files
- Lighting Models: Rendl light studio
- Post Processing for the ultimate renderings
Fabrication
- Nesting
- Unrolling
- Topography models
- Paneling
Additional Architectural Training Materials
Books on Architecture and Fabrication
Toward a new Practice
- 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.
Digital Fabrication
- Digital Fabrication in Architecture by Nick Dunn
- Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication 2nd Edition by Christopher Beorkrem
- Advancing Wood Architecture: A Computational Approach 1st Edition by Achim Menges et al.
Theory behind design and algorithms
- 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
- Permutation Design - Building, Texts, and Contexts
Practical Computational Design
- AAD Algorithms-Aided Design. Parametric strategies using Grasshopper by Arturo Tedeschi
- 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
- Pamphlet Architecture 27: Tooling by Benjamin Aranda et al.
Organic Form and nature...
- 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
Other Links of interest
- 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.
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