Results: Complex Geometry and Parametric Design worshop at SIGraDi 2009

After three days of lectures and exercises, Gonçalo Castro Henriques and I focused the workshop Complex Geometry and Parametric Design with Grasshopper on the production of projects for a covering at the patio of the School of Architecture. The requirements were to generate complex skins or structures just with developable components, so that they would be buildable with 2D CNC technology.

We had the honor of presenting the workshop projects to an audience of prominent academics and professionals. Here are some images of the projects:

‘Estrutura Planificada’, by Bruno Carnevalli, Flavia Biccas and Marcelo Oliveira.

‘Espiral Paramétrica’, by Gabriel Farias, Luiza Soares and Miguel Ângelo Aguiar de Lima.

‘The Tongue’, also by Gabriel Farias, Luiza Soares and Miguel Ângelo Aguiar de Lima.

 ‘Cobertura no Jardim’, by Juliana Martins Caloi, Pedro Veloso and Verônica Natividade.

‘Natural Intestine’, by Matias Dalla Costa, Cássio Monteiro and Gastão Sales.

‘Evolon Net’, by Rafael Berwanger Martin, Antonio Vasconcelos and Daniel Ribeiro Cardoso.

‘VVBA Pavilion’, by Victor Calixto, Fernando Vázquez, Bárbara Kahhale, and Alex Garcia.

Photo mosaics by Gonçalo Castro Henriques.

We want to thank Professor Nardelli, Professor Charles Vincent and specially Professor Gabriela Celani for the organization and coordination. Thanks also to the staff of volunteers for their tech support.

‘Rhino3D’ and ‘Gh3D’ as Rhino and Grasshopper Blog Tags

Two months ago, I replied on Twitter to a suggestion from @HDA_Paris for using #Rhino3D and #Gh3D as a hashtags for everything related with Rhinoceros and Grasshopper, which triggered various retweets and allowed me to connect with interesting people (maybe those were my 15 minutes at Twitter :-) .

That made me think in something —that surely someone else has though before:
What if we use those Rhino3D and Gh3D also as blog tags?

Workshop: Estratégia Avançada de Projeto e Fabricação Digital - IED

Registrations are open for the workshop Estratégia Avançada de Projeto, Desenho e Fabricação Digital that I will teach, along with Marko Brajovic, from November 23 to December 4, 2009 at Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) - School of Industrial Design, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Connections: DigitAG&

This is other special connection with a blog of connections. As Andrea Graziano, the DigitAG& editor says:

My intent, as the name of the blog, is to "tag" or better link what I see around me in the field of digital architectural research without trying to classify or provide guidelines on the merits. I just want to give ideas to those who know the arguments and incentives for research staff who are already interested. This blog is intended to be a container of news "democratically random".

—DigitAG& - what about (English powered by Google Translate)

And is in fact a huge collection of well linked news on digital technologies, people and resources for architecture and design, a most-read blog that reflects the zeitgeist of it. That’s why is been massively follow, also in its Tumbr and Twitter versions.

Thanks to Andrea for his references to me.

Workshop: Complex Geometry and Parametric Design - SIGraDi 2009

Download the poster in English or in Portuguese.

Registrations are open for the workshop Complex Geometry and Parametric Design that I will teach, along with Gonçalo Castro Henriques (X-Ref), from November, 12 to 14 and 16 to 18, 2009 at the 13th Congress of Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi), to be held at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie - School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Radiolarian walls at Beyond Media 2009

On July, some works of the Genetic Architectures research group where exhibit alone with student projects from the Master program in ‘Visions’, this year’s edition of Beyond Media, the international festival for architecture and media in Florence, Italy.

One of the main works on the ESARQ installation was a set of walls from the first Radiolarian project we did.

Connections: Designplaygrounds

Rodrigo Medina is a young designer who experiments and teaches object design, experimental architecture, interactive and generative art. In his site Designplaygrounds and on his blog, he publishes his work developed on RhinoScript, Grasshopper, Processing, among others. It is also interesting to follow his Facebook page and Twitter, where he posts updated relevant links.

I had the opportunity of meeting him personally when I invited him to lecture in the digital fabrication course at ESARQ.

Thanks to Rodrigo for reference me in his sites.

RhinoScript consulting for fabrication at ESARQ

On March, taking advantage of my stay in Barcelona, I made some RhinoScript consultancies in Affonso Orciuoli’s course about digital fabrication in the Biodigital Architecture Master program at ESARQ. They also had Pablo Baquero and Daniel Wunsch as collaborators. Some contents are posted on the blog CadCam Architectural Approaches.

Thanks to Affonso for inviting me to his course and to Pablo for inviting to the blog.