rhino membrane

victoria and my trying to understand rhino membrane. we did a small tutorial for the program. here are the examples that are described in the tutorial.

minimal intervention

Finally, here is Victorias and my big design project from the last semester...

rhino python

as the new scripting language in both rhino 5 and rhino mac will be python there is already a new forum. the same scripts can be run in both versions. python allowes to make your own rhino commands, line .net plugins in rhino 4. 

in both work-in-progress versions scripting with python is possible now.

I am looking forward to the new rhinos...

rapid protohousing

mass customization: the use of flexible, computer aided manufacturing systems to produce custom output.

index model: programmed framework of a design concept, that needs specific user input to generate final adjusted designs.

this is carlas and my suggestion for the last concrete design competition. we tried to develope a room generator, that computes possible living situations for a user-specific room program.

digitales entwerfen - first image

victuria hlubek`s and my first result of our digital design course hosted by norbert palz at the msa. it is a pedestrian bridge that uses the structure of an old cargo-train bridge... 

we did the generation of planar elements in grasshopper.

subdivision

inspired by the cracking algorithm of aranda/lasch published in "pamphlet architecture tooling" I did this one. in this case there are 7 generations of crackings with a 5 % chance to abort.

entropy

chaos is only the result of a complexity that is too complicated for us to understand. each chaotic system can be predicted if we have enough information to synchronize. it is amazing to see how bigger patterns evolve in such a chaotic, "random" system.
3 lines in each picture, each line consists of 1000 single elements. 

the first...

this was part of the very first digital project I did. it was a collaboration with jascha lehmann and we were so damn proud of using rhino,scripting and the 3d plotter for the first time!
it was a time when voronoi structures were new, cool and exciting...
here is the homepage of the digital lab from our university where it was printed.

digital prefabrication

this is our parametric curtain, developed in the digital prefabrication course, hosted by steffen riegas (UNstudio). The aim of the course was to create a every-day-life product based on a radiolarium structure by ernst haeckel (1834 - 1919) and to experience the whole digital way from design to final 1:1 production.

We did the structure in grasshopper, adjustable parameters are the size of the window, the depth of the curtain, the strength and the position of the attractor point, the material flexibiliy and the influence of gravity.

After baking the base curves we rhinoscripted the identifying, colorcoding and sorting of the curves, the joining and lofting of the surfaces and the unrolling. Before the files were ready to lasercut, we added construction extensions and rebuild the curves to make them smooth. 

The cut elements were assembled with buttons.

bluriorities

this is the short design course in thessaloniki, hosted by professor spiridonidis. the site is at thessaloniki`s harbour, we were asked to design a center for cultural interaction.
the idea was to let people think about borders, physically experienced in the building transfered to cultural borders. the building has 2 main elements, static glass walls and movable concrete doors. 
this time we only grasshoppered all of the movable concrete panels for realizing all possible program schemes. nice project though. here is the link to the project-blog.

monument

the outcome of the collaboration with victoria hlubek is our proposal for the 4 week short design workshop in vienna hosted by roman delugan from delugan meissl architects. the task was to create a monument of 140 m3, the site and the specific topic could be chosen by us.

we wanted to design a room for being confronted with yourself. we ended up with a concrete tower located on münsters aasee, with a lockable door, a steep stair, and a room in the top of the tower where the only view you have is the view on a mirrored wall.

we handled the quite complex geometry with grasshopper. changeable parameters are the height of the tower, its sidelength, the height of the top room, the thickness of the walls, the height and the depth of the stairs and the diameter of the stair well. with all these parameters linked to sliders it was easy to understand the geometry of the tower in relation to the stairs and to optimize it.

growing triangles

so once again a growth algorithm. this time it is about triangles. I started the simulation with three base pyramides. there is a variable chance of growing another triangle on the current one - here it was 50 %. intersections between the triangles are avoided.

after growing a defined amout of iterations all surfaces are transformed into frames. the size of the frame-openings are linked to the z-position of each single surface.