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workshop_Design with Generative Components

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:51:00 +0000

Per iscrizioni:
CASARTARC – Casa delle Arti e dell’Architettura – La Giardinera
tel. 011.80.28.391
info@casartarc.org

http://aast09.wordpress.com/

Date & Tutors:
13, 14, 15 luglio
Bentley Tutors
16, 17, 18 luglio
Tutors:
- Ludovica Tramontin (Università di Cagliari, Facoltà di Architettura, ASPX )
- Alessio Erioli (Università di Bologna Italy, e-cloud)

Luogo:
MusicLab, la Suoneria, Via Partigiani 4 – Settimo T.se (To)

PanelingTool Manual and Update

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:43:02 +0000

PanelingTools manual (about 80 pages) and a new release of PanelingTools plug-in are now available for download.

The manual includes detailed description of paneling process, commands and options. The new release has the following additions and fixes:

Fixed a bug when creating flat faces. They used to fail when selecting a base surface.
Added ptShiftGrid button to the toolbar and menu.
Added grouped serialized mesh faces instead of one mesh when using AddMesh option in ptPanelGrid command.
Added preceding zeros to objects names in ptSerializeObjects command for better numeric ordering.
Fixed crash in ptUnrollEdges command when edges are outside the reference surface or polysurface.
Fixed a crash bug in ptPanelSurface and ptPanelGrid commands.
Fixed a crash bug when paneling with “Iso” option.
Toolbar commands now cancel current command when calling them.

Genr8

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:54:23 +0000

“Genr8 is a surface design tool developed by Martin Hemberg with advisory services provided by Una-May O’Reilly and Peter Testa. The concepts and tool are part of the work by the Emergent Design Group at MIT. The goal was to provide architects with access to creative surface design by giving them influence over generative processes. A generative process is the activity of iteratively executing some encoding that creates and then modifies an artifact. In the generative process we chose, what was most intriguing and of use to architects is a model of cellular growth interacting with an environment”.

Documentation: html, pdf

Download: click here

Since 2003, Genr8 has been used in the graduate course of Emergent Design and Technologies at the Architectural Association in London. Some of the projects are presented at the website under EmTech_Work->Core_Studio->Form_Generation. There is also an online exhibition of the work by the students from 2002-2003 where some of the designs are made with the aid of Genr8. Short presentations of the EmTech student projects from 2004.
Genr8 has also been used at the Southern California Insitute of Architecture and some of the expriments are presented in Steve Fuchs’ blog

Link site: Genr8