Showing posts with label ACADIA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ACADIA. Show all posts

Monday, November 3, 2014

Rhynamo - An Open Source Project

Coding Rhynamo from my hotel room at The Standard in Los Angeles
If you who were paying attention to my Twitter feed During ACADIA, you may have caught that I made a special announcement regarding Rhynamo, the OpenNURBS file reader/writer for Dynamo:

As of December 1, CASE will release Rhynamo as an open source project.

What does that mean? It means that we will continue to be releasing and developing free builds of the tool so you can continue to use Rhynamo in your work. It also means that brave coders out there will have the opportunity to leverage the Rhynamo source code to customize their workflow with OpenNURBS and Dynamo and develop new integrations.

Rhynamo only attempts to address a small piece of the larger design and production workflow. However, I believe that tools like Rhynamo provide us with a road map for what we, as users, should be expecting from our ecosystem of tools:
  • We need more fluid exchanges of data throughout the design process
  • We need higher levels of compatibility between authoring platforms
  • We need open file formats and APIs that let us customize our workflow
Projects like McNeel’s OpenNURBS and the Dynamo project should not be exceptions…they should be the rule.

I still have some code commenting, clean-up, and feature development to do ahead of December before release the project into the wild... but for those of you who are already relying on Rhynamo in your workflow, rest assured that the tool is not going anywhere and will continue to be developed into 2015.

I also want to thank the more than 300 testers who signed up to try out Rhynamo in the past two months.  Their contributions have been very appreciated and I hope they continue to play along as we enter into phase 2 :)

More info to follow....

Reading in a Rhino file containing a Hexagonal paneling system
Mapping complex Rhino panels to Revit Adaptive components
Creating a Dynamo surface and saving geometry as a Rhino 3DM.
Completed during the ACADIA 2014 Hackathon, this shows Rhynamo sending 'live' commands to Rhino.

Monday, October 6, 2014

Catch Me If You Can

Fall is usually a hot mess for conferences, workshops, and speaking engagements....

....2014 is no different.

ACADIA 2014


It has been awhile since I have attended an ACADIA conference... the last one I visited was 2012 where I ran a Python for Revit workshop.  The computational design for BIM landscape has certainly changed significantly since then.  I will be joining the Autodesk crew to co-lead a porition of a 3-day Dynamo workshop at ACADIA in Los Angeles.  I will be discussing opportunities for using Dynamo for analytics, interoperability, and provide a preview of the future of the Rhynamo plug-in.

NOW NEXT FUTURE


ACADIA isn't the only reason I will be in Los Angeles this month.  The AIA California Council is putting on a symposium titled NOW NEXT FUTURE which brings together a group of innovative architects and designers who are rethinking the future of the built environment.  I am going to be delivering a talk about CASE and our core philosophy BLDGS = DATA.

AU2014


AU2014 is just around the corner and CASE will be out in full force.  I will be delivering 2 classes on Dynamo so be sure to sign up if you haven't already.  Also be sure to keep an eye out for the CASE party.  It is shaping up to be another epic event (sorry...I hear we won't have a mechanical bull this year)

Check out my classes...

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

ACADIA Workshop: Python Scripting for Revit and Vasari


This October, I will be instructing an ACADIA workshop:  Python Scripting for Revit and Vasari.  The workshop will cover the basics of using Python with an emphasis on the Conceptual Modeling capabilities of Revit and Vasari.  We will also investigate opportunities for extracting information from models and enabling workflows with other data sources.

Be sure to sign up at the ACADIA website and check out the other workshop offerings along with the conference info!



Monday, January 2, 2012

Parametric Strategies Issuu

Originally published in 2009 as part of the ACADIA conference. This article is an overview of the parametric tools and systems used in the design process of civic and sports architecture at NBBJ.


Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The Hangzhou Tennis Center Issuu

Earlier this past year, I had presented a short paper at the ACADIA Regional conference on some of the parametric tools and systems used on the Hangzhou Tennis Center.

The full article is now available as an Issuu...



Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Free Download! ACADIA Regional 2011: Parametricism (SPC)

The book for the 2011 ACADIA Regional conference is available for a free download. The conference was hosted by the University of Nebraska Lincoln this past spring.

The proceedings feature an impressive line-up of research papers (including one of my own) complete with color images. The national conference has a lot to live up to moving into the fall!

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Thursday, January 13, 2011

NBBJ/CCDI Hangzhou Tennis Center @ ACADIA Regional 2011

This March at the ACADIA 2011 regional conference, I will be giving a presentation on the Hangzhou Tennis Center: A Case Study in Integrated Parametric Design.

The Tennis Center is a new component of the larger Hangzhou Sports Park which I have blogged about in previous posts.

My lecture will describe, in detail, the process of assembling the parametric model of the exterior shell which includes systems for form finding, rationalization, detailed cladding, simulation and coordination. The project builds on the processes implemented in the main stadium project and extends them to achieve new levels of efficiency, detail, and rigor in a large-scale, international application.
Copyright NBBJ
Copyright NBBJ


Sunday, November 7, 2010

ACADIA Regional 2011: Parametricism (SPC)

The 2011 ACADIA Regional Conference will be hosted by the University of Nebraska Lincoln in March.

Paper abstracts are due by December 21st, 2010.


Themes:

1.0 Analog Parametrics
2.0 Forms that Matter
3.0 Building Envelopes & Surface Geometry
4.0 Investigations in Digital Curricula
5.0 Reconfiguring Collaboration by Computational Means
6.0 Comprehensive (Parametric) Design
7.0 Simulations: Quantitative and Qualitative
8.0 In-Formation Based Design