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4*HTL Plevnei
Latest school project: four star hotel in a not that nice area of Bucharest.
Does what it says on the tin.
What’s nice is that there are a lot of embedded parametrics inside: the canopy structural system, terrain modding (site), shape cracking of the canopy. Sometime ago there even was a def for controlling room sizes in [...]
Urban Developement Proposal
This project is a collaboration with Dragos Mila.
We parametrically explored possible future configurations for the study area (450ha large, at the intersection of two main planned road-infrastructure extensions) and tried to push for a solution that would maximize performance (density, height, shading, access to natural elements and connectivity) of the whole region while leaving ample [...]
LPSCN Implant
The assignment was loosely formulated so as to allow maximum freedom in identifying problems and needs in the Lipscani area and proposing an architectural (built) solution that would tackle the aforementioned points.
My vision concentrated on issues relating to the poor visibility/readability of the overall area (and the necessity of a landmark) and the lack of [...]
Grasshopper Boids/Agents
Call them what you will, but there’s been a huge hype about them some time ago.
Grasshopper’s scripting capabilites are now a huge super cool feature, especially if you’re coding in visual studio (c#) and then pasting the shit or making dlls. I did this some time ago when i suddenly realized that you can declare [...]
Grasshopper and Processing talking via OSC
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkNBZSpViP8]
/sneak preview.
Definition file (.ghx).
Referenced assembly (.dll).
Please note that the referenced assembly is based entirely on code from luvtechno.net.
3d Voronoi in grasshopper
More as a scripting experiment, when i was mucking about trying to make the delaunay triangulation work in grasshopper i somehow found the wonderfully complex qhull library which i promptly set to push and pull to get it to work with grasshopper. As advised on their website, the best way to do it is to [...]
Qhull+GH=love.
How about 60 points for real-time 3d voronoi manipulation in grasshopper?
Here’s a screenshot:
This isn’t a scam. Stay tuned for more free voronoi PrOn (and other qhull-enabled goodies.)
Delaunay Triangulation in Grasshopper
(right click save target as)
Delaunay Triangulation in Rhino’s Grasshopper plugin.
It’s pretty straightforward. Just don’t input in the magic node duplicating points or everything will start blowing up.
First one to make it output the voronoi diagram wins a candybar.
Collective Housing – part 1 review
Team project with Veronica Popescu.
Our solution proposed the creation of several interlinked interior and exterior courtyards that both encouraged interaction with the surrounding busy streets while at the same time offering an intimate place to retreat to. Various social and commercial functions requiring different visibility/exposure levels can occupy this space at ground floor level.
The space-partitioning [...]
Grasshopper Voronoi diagram (update)
For those who really like to play with voronoi regions and stuff, here’s the final grasshopper definition file (right click, save target as – else you’ll get a ~250kb of useless xml in your browser window).
The vcell component outputs now individual cells as closed polylines and closed nurbs curves. This is useful if you are [...]
Grasshopper Multiple Attractors
UPDATED HERE!
Multiple Attractors working in Rhino’s Grasshopper, all handled in a nice VBScript Component.
Works with quite anything (initially deisgned for surfaces).
Download the definition file.
Have fun with it. I still didn’t have the time to put this to a proper, nicely rendered use and it’s been almost a month now since it’s finished. Quite fustrating.
Grasshopper experiments
Trying out Grasshopper:
Grasshopper brings to you real close to actual parametric architecture. I guess you’ll be better off reading the description over on the mcneel site.
Though the visual programming paradigm is a bit hard to grasp from the begining, you’ll be on your own quite soon. You’ll be flying if you’ve used PD, vvvv or [...]
boring random surface
boring random surface, as seen on the cover of this book.
Here’s the script:
Urban bacteria (concept)
Now that we didn’t win anything (so it seems) I can publish this project. It was great working on it, though a bit stressful towards its final stages…
Here it goes:
This project is a collaboration between Veronica and me.
Creation
The urban bacteria is a responsive structure that is not built; it grows following the path dictated [...]
We are happy to attend
The following workshop, during the dates below:
Thanks to a bunch of people (OAR, parental funds and Nemetschek Romania – if you want to expand the list – there are still a lot of expenses to be taken care of – drop a line).
Thanks also to Aleluya! Barcelona for providing special rates to eastern students…
StuFo 6
I had some fun some time ago with plexiglass, a laser printer, rhino, and a very limited and buggy script that made “ribs” out of a surface.
The results were nice, so I decided to share:
Here’s the bugged up script (it’s quite useless, but people may find inspiration where I didn’t):
Option Explicit
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Scripts (RhinoScript): Adaptive Fenestration and Massive Unroll
As I promised, I hand out some of the scripts I’ve written in the course of the latest project.
Massive unroll Script:
Select as many surfaces as you like and then unroll each one of them.
Download it.
Adaptive fenestration script:
An interesting script that cuts holes in a surface based on the relation with a given attractor(point). I used [...]
architectural organism
home/house: an architectural organism
The house must not be seen as an opaque shell, but as an osmotic membrane.
The built environment intersects with the living environment.
Create a formal and functional interdependence between the architectural object (building) and the subjective object (home).
So you can see what porosity led to.
And here are some pictures of the model:
Balsa wood [...]
single-family home
(1of2)
First set of drawings from a single-family home project for school.
Getting a grip on the surroundings:
After an initial study of the surroundings, several ways of tackling this project have been bouncing up and down in my head. I won’t go through all the urban analysis of the area, suffice to say that taking into account [...]
Constanta – design proposal for the waterfront of the leisure port
We started out on this by analyzing the area and its surroundings from the point of view of circulation (more on how we did this). How would people move around? The conclusions from this study where integrated later on in the project.
Next we took on the task of (re)creating the [...]
Urban circulation study…
or swarm intelligence?
Using processing to make a circulation study in a public area. It’s for the current school project. More details later.
I’ve used Shiffman’s boids sketch as a start, and gradually started building up with some attractors, Point Obstacles (which are attractors with negative pull basically), and Linear Obstacles (which were a little bit tricky, [...]
SPRscrpts is out now
SPRscrpts
for Rhino is out now. Grab it while it’s fresh (and buggy).
Sorry for the huge delay.
Perfume, Voronoi Regions and Architecture
That would summarize my last project at the design studio. Our theme consisted of creating a “perfume museum” at a site located in the vicinity of the Mogosoaia Palace. (I found it to be a very difficult site – history, tradition, nature etc. how to properly integrate a building in such a rich and precise [...]
Scriptin towards outerspace
Double curvature surfaces, faceted:Some easy scriptin did that:
Option Explicit
SurfaceFaceting()
Sub SurfaceFaceting() Dim strSurf : strSurf = Rhino.GetObject(”Select surface to facet”, 8, True, True) If IsNull(strSurf) Then Exit Sub
Dim intDetailLevel : intDetailLevel = Rhino.GetInteger(”Detail level”, 40, 2) If IsNull(intDetailLevel) Then Exit Sub
Dim dbl
Dim uDomain : uDomain = Rhino.SurfaceDomain(strSurf, 0) Dim uStep : uStep = [...]
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