ACADIA 2009 - 'Conclusion'...?

The 2009 ACADIA conference has officially come to an end. As a young professional, it was a fantastic experience to see research and projects at the cutting edge of digital technology and fabrication. I was flattered and humbled by the response I received for my work at NBBJ. The success of the presentation is a great motivator for pushing the work ahead. ACADIA is a great community and I am happy to be a part of it!

At the end of this week, I will be traveling again to Beijing to continue work on the Hangzhou stadium. We are entering into the construction documentation phase so it will be an opportunity for us to take the design and the parametric system to the next level.

Next year, ACADIA will be in New York.... see you in 2010? I hope so! To be continued....

ACADIA 2009 - THIS WEEK!

If you are attending the ACADIA 2009 conference, you can catch my lecture on Friday, October 23 @ 12:10.

Below is a preview....

Update from Beijing

Hello, For anyone that may, on occasion, visit this blog...sorry for my lack of updating. I have been in Beijing working on Design Development for the Hangzhou Sports Park. NBBJ sent a team of three to work with our local collaborator, CCDI.

We will be completing DD at the end of the month. Here are some shots of the 1:100 scale rough working model for the 80,000 seat main stadium... (yes, that tall, balding fellow is me...)

3D Supershape in Grasshopper

This is a Grasshopper definition I made earlier this year that allows the user to generate 3D Supershapes. I started playing with it again in the last few days to test out the "Save state" feature in the new 6.0018 release of Grasshopper.

The definition plots a set of UV points in 3D. The surface by points component is used to create the supershape.

Click Here to Download the 3D Supershape Definition by Nathan Miller

The definition works with the latest release of Grasshopper (6.0018)
(I've tested it with GH 6.0018 on two Windows XP computers with Rhino SR4 and SR4b)

If anyone does anything cool with it, let me know and I will post it on the blog.

Enjoy!

***Updated with additional definition notes***

ACADIA 09 Paper Abstract + Teaser

Parametric Strategies in Civic Architecture Design by Nathan Miller
Presented at the ACADIA 2009 reForm() Conference

Chicago, IL. October 22-25.