Register now for the Generative Jewelry Workshop at the Goldsmith Centre, London with Andres Gonzales of Rhino Fab Lab and McNeel and Arthur Mani ltd.

See outline below for more details:

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This is a draft poster for a workshop which will take place in London (date and venue tbc).

PLEASE REGISTER WITH SIMPLY RHINO. Price £300 students, £500 professionals, dates: 25th June – 29th June.

This is v2 from the previous AGD Workshop earlier this year in Taipei, Taiwan. In stead of demonstrating the cross-platform inter-operation from GH, via Processing, to Arduino. In this version 2, we will emphasize on programming approaches for parametric geometry construction, which will be further materialized with tangible/physical objects.

The tutors involved are:

Shih Yuan Wang
http://yuan322002.blogspot.co.uk/

Education :
Master of Science in CAAD, ETH
Master of Architecture, National Chiao Tung University
Bachelor of Architectural Technology, Tamkang University

Experience :
Adjunct Lecturer, TamKang University
Adjunct Lecturer, Feng Chia University
Adjunct Lecturer, Yuan Ze University
Tutor, Proto-Design Workshop, Universität Innsbruck
Architect, HOSOYA SCHAEFER ARCHITECTS, Switzerland

Sheng Kai Tang
www.tonytang2009.com

Education :
Master of Computational Design, Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Science in Applied Art, National Chiao Tung University
Bachelor of Architecture, Feng Chia University

Experience :
Principal Researcher, Adaptive Artifact
User Experience Design Specialist, ASUS Design Center
Adjunct Lecturer, National Chiao Tung University
Adjunct Lecturer, Yuan Ze University
Research and Teaching Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University

Tsung Hsien Wang
Education :
PhD in Computational Design, Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Science in Architecture, National Chiao Tung University
Bachelor of Architecture, National Chen Kung University

Experience :
Adjunct Instructor, Carnegie Mellon University
Research and Teaching Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University
Adjunct Lecturer, Kun Shan University

Arthur Mamou-Mani
www.arthurmani.com

Education :
RIBA Part 3, ARB certification, Architectural Association, London, UK
RIBA Part 2, Diploma in Architecture, Architectural Association, London, UK
RIBA Part 1, Degree in Architecture, Architectural Association, London, UK
Master M2, Ecole d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France

Experience :
Diploma Studio Unit Master, University of Westminster, London, UK
Advanced Grasshopper Tutor, Simply Rhino Ltd., London, UK
Director, AMA (Arthur Mani Architects), London and Paris
Architect, Proctor and Matthews Architects, London, UK
Architectural Assistant, Atelier Jean Nouvel, Paris, France
Architectural Assistant, Zaha Hadid Architects, Paris, France

The workshop focused on the Negev desert which goes through Israel and the Gaza Strip and which gets flooded once a year. Students linked parametric tools to GIS data to create smart infrastructures mitigating the floods while offering new Architectural experiences. The full brief is on this page and the students work is on this page.

Henrik Mansson/Moran Navri/ Ziv Gadon

Liron Bracha/Bjoern Dittrich/Annelen Schmidt

Final Jury at the Peres Peace Centre

Ben Van Berkel attending the final jury

Download the files below (for GH0.8.0066):
Geodesic_Mesh.gh
Geodesic_Mesh.3dm

Register Now

-Beginner Workshop:

Dates: 21-22 June 2012

Description:

An introduction to Grasshopper – the powerful and easy to use parametric plug-in for Rhino which enables efficient workflows, easy manipulation of complex geometry and exciting new generative design possibilities.

-Advanced Workshop:

Dates: 11,12,13 July 2012

Description:

The aim of the course is to provide an in-depth understanding of parametric modelling using Grasshopper and its numerous free and open-source plugins with an Architectural application. You will learn to link your models to environmental and structural simulations, connect them to other platforms, give them physical properties and create feedback loops to optimize and generate an unexpected, responsive and optimized design. Register Now

Images of the Workshop Exercises:

See outline below:

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Image Above: Processing Interface  and 3D Mesh ready to be fabricated (courtesy: Toxiclib)

Very happy to announce a two days long Processing workshop at the Metropolitan Works, a great venue for digital design and fabrication tools. The tutor is KARTSTEN SCHMIDT, creator of the famous Toxiclibs library and of PostSpectacular, a London based design studio and consultancy.

The workshop will focus on the development of  User Interfaces for Customized fabrication.
Kartsen has written a library for unfolding simple 3d meshes (Flatworld) to work with a variety of sheet materials for laser cutting.
Have a look at Karsten’s Workshop Outline on the Toxiclibs blog

Please email me for any enquiry:  info@arthurmani.com

Details:

-Dates: Saturday 3rd and 10th December 2011
-Time: 10am to 6pm
-Capacity: Limited to 20 Students
-Fees: £175+VAT per students
-Level: Motivated Beginner to Intermediate
-Location : Weyhill Road Entrance - 41 Commercial Road – London, E1 1LA

EVENT FULL - Thank you very much to everyone who registered !

Below are pictures and images from the workshop.

Karsten has uploaded the entire source code from the class on PostSpectacular and has posted a tutorial on the Toxiclibs blog

He has also added a Flickr set with Screenshots of the app. Some students have also posted their experiments online: Mark Lundin’s Google+ Album

Above: Processing Workshop at Metworks on the First Day

Above: Rapid Prototype model exported from Processing fabricated at Met Works after the first Day

Above: The Processing façade app which was developed on the second day
A “façade” is drawn in plan on the right using a curve, control points are added with particle physics and voxels used to solidify everything. More info on the Toxiclibs blog.

Curtain call is the current exhibition/show at the Round House designed by Ron Arad and made of 5,600 sillicon rods hung from an 18 meters diameter ring. It is on until the 29^th August 2011.

The Web brings you the world on a screen which often makes me wonder what will happen to actual spaces. This exhibition might bring an answer to this contemporary question.

Internet pushes people to make fast judgements, fast comments, it gives you hundreds of images per day. When seeing the photographs of this exhibition on posters and blogs I thought it was simplistic: white strips forming a tube on which videos are being projected. These images cannot express the actual experience that one feels when entering the hall of the Round House.

Photographs will not tell you that little strips of light, like sun rays, are escaping from the screen towards the outside, dancing sensually when the viewers go in and out of the curtain:

Photographs might not show the mysterious silhouettes of people sitting and standing behind the screen and unknowingly becoming part of the movie.

These few shadows might not give a a sense that at least one hundred people are mesmerized inside the circle: When opening the curtain one becomes part of a social experience in which the images on the screen are as important as the interaction between viewers.

Movies are orchastrated by a V.J. seated behind a circular table with dozens of flashing computer stations and vertical plasma screens encompassing him. The movies surround you, they encourage you to look everywhere.

The scale of the projected men and women on the screen is so large that you forget you are surrounded by people. You lose the sense of scale. When the movie suddenly  stops, as it has often no end and no beginning, your attention has been so stimulated that you look for something more to absorb. This is when you notice the viewers again, This awkward moment occurs in the cinema once the movie ends, but happens continuously in this show as each film lasts only a couple minutes.

Viewers are sitting in a random pattern, driven by their affinity, they lie down and stand up, they choose their own seats and decide when to move around. It is is the second time that I have experienced this level of freedom at the round house, the first one was couple years ago at the Fuerza Bruta show: The circular layout must help cancel the viewer/watcher dichotomy.

These shows are what Internet is to TV, giving free-will to the viewer. In this case, though, the free-will is also a physical and spatial one. Internet is not replacing the spaces, it is changing them. One has to re-think what a space can bring when one could simply stay in front of a screen. Lets design more post-internet spaces like this one! To achieve this, simple tubes of plastic hanging from the ceiling and a few videos in a beautiful venue were enough.

I should add that even the ticket price was “post-internet” as one could pay as much as he wants.

It is also important to let people take their smart phones in the space as they will create there own art from the show and share it with the sleepless network like I just did !

PS: this hyperlinked text will not replace going there either. It does not talk about the way the tubes together form an undivided smooth screen which opens up when wind or people disrupt it.

This post was written with my BlackBerry® wireless device

Image: Arya Safavi

Workshops: Grasshopper, Geco, Kangaroo, Geometry Gym, Processing and Python by Robert Stuart Smith from Kokkugia and DRL, Thiago Mundim, Yoojin Kim and Arya Safavi from Amanda Levete Architects and Arthur Mani.

Brief: The aim of this programme is to rehabilitate marginalised environments, populations and materials through the use of innovative computational ecological design and digital fabrication processes. With these tactics we will define a new generation of digital design that employs both high-tech and low-tech strategies. Parametric design generation and digital fabrication techniques will be used to computationally redesign low-tech building strategies, mixing high-tech expertise with local labor knowledge. Taking place in the Escola São Paulo, a cultural centre for art, fashion and design, the objective of the workshop is to transform conventional sustainable design strategies so as to bring ecological design a new aesthetic and social agenda.
Thus, this high-tech/low tech strategy will focus on environmental mediation, using high-tech environmental computational simulation software and environmental parametric design to design low-tech environmental mediation systems. The workshop will employ agent-controlled scripts to calibrate devices to respond to the forces of the sun and wind. Environmental simulation, both within and outside the parametric modeling interface will give instant performance feedback, to further streamline the design process. To support this aim, the workshop will collaborate with the Environmental Engineering Design Agency, B.D.S.P. The goal is to create spatial organizations for various social programs, settings and building types, using different types of devices, such as natural-light reflecting light-shelves, natural-ventilation systems, and solar-shading brise-soleils to alleviate the effects of the harsh urban heat-island.
Open to design professionals and students from all over the world, the studio-based workshop will include instruction in parametric modeling, environmental simulation software, Rhino Grasshopper, GECO, and Galapagos, (to integrate parametric environmental optimization and simulation), as well as digital fabrication processes using laser cutter, C.N.C. milling and rapid-prototyping machines, sponsored by DS4 and SEACAM, all of which will be used to produce design proposals physical models and one-to-one scale prototypes. The course will be taught by tutors and assistants from the AA School and B.D.S.P. The Visiting School will also feature semi–nars and lectures by both Brazilian and international architects, artists, urban planners and other specialists, and be featured in international and national media including the Arquitetura e Urbanismo (AU) magazine and digital media.

Work done at the AA-Sao Paulo Workshop:http://saopaulo.aaschool.ac.uk/
Students: Gilfranco Alves, Cynthia Nojimoto, Humberto da Mata, Rafael Morozowski Ardjomand and Flavia Santos
Tutors: Anne Save de Beaurecueil, Franklin Lee, Robert Stuart-Smith, Thiago Mundim, Ernesto Bueno, Yoojin Kim, Arthur Mamou-Mani, Lucas de Sordi, Victor Sanderberg, Affonso Orciuoli, Sandro Tubertini
Software: Rhino, Grasshopper, Arduino, Processing.
Fabrication: Knitting Machine, CNC, Laser Cutter
Materials: Fabric, Cables, Arduino board, Servo motor, Plywood

Work done at the AA-Sao Paulo Workshop:http://saopaulo.aaschool.ac.uk/
Students: Thiago Valerio Zandona and Paulo Carvalho’s
Tutors: Anne Save de Beaurecueil, Franklin Lee, Robert Stuart-Smith, Thiago Mundim, Ernesto Bueno, Yoojin Kim, Arthur Mamou-Mani, Lucas de Sordi, Victor Sanderberg, Affonso Orciuoli, Sandro Tubertini
Software: Rhino, RhinoCAM, Grasshopper, Ecotect, Geco
Fabrication: CNC, Laser-Cutter
Materials: High Density Foam, Plywood

More Info:

Video of last year’s workshop

http://saopaulo.aaschool.ac.uk

http://saopaulo.aaschool.ac.uk/?page_id=1194

Emails:

brazilvisitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk

visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk

Log 19 Spring/Summer 2010

Article by Noam Andrews

“Communist Party HQ represents a sea change in Parametric Design because of the way in which it attempts to deliver its political ambition of a space for democracy using environmental data-driven components as the Architectural Vehicle.”