Smart Geometry 2012 - Conference Registration Now Open

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:33:16 +0000

Smartgeometry 2012 Troy -Conference Registration Now Open
Smartgeometry is pleased to announce that sg2012 will be at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, in upstate New York from 19-24 March 2012. The Workshop and conference will be a gathering of the global community of innovators and pioneers in the fields of architecture, design and engineering.

The event will be in two parts, a four day Workshop 19-22 March, and a public conference beginning with Talkshop 23 March, followed by a Symposium 24 March. The event follows the format of the highly successful preceding events sg2010 Barcelona and sg2011 Copenhagen.

sg2012 CONFERENCE FEES
$350 Early Bird Price
$450 Conference Day Price
Register here
Reduced fees are available for students ($120). Email registrar@smartgeometry.org to confirm student status.

Conference fees include attendance to:
Talkshop (23 March)
A Visit to the Workshop (evening of 23 March)
Symposium (24 March)
Conference Reception (evening of 24 March)

See CASE at the Metals in Construction 2012 Facades Conference

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:06:23 +0000

Don’t forget that the Metals in Construction 2012 Façades Conference begins this Thursday, February 16th where partner, Federico Negro will present a case study on digital collaboration alongside Method Design’s Reese Campbell. Even though the Day 1 Conference is completely sold out (sorry folks!), registration for Day 2 Workshops are still available including a Revit Design workshop that will be taught by partner David Fano. If you’ve already registered for the conference, we look forward to seeing you there!

CASE Participating in Columbia GSAPP C-BIP Think Tank on Feb. 24th

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:57:13 +0000

Partner, David Fano will be participating in the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation’s (GSAPP) sixth International Think Tank on February 24th at the powerHouse Arena in Brooklyn, NY.

Entitled “Vectored Development”, the Columbia Building Intelligence Project (C-BIP) will gather leading educators, architects, engineers, and other industry experts in an open dialogue to explore solutions that could change the building industry for the better.

David will participate in the second session, “The Design of Design Software” which will explore the gaps in architectural software and how they can best be addressed.

The event is open to the public by reservation and will begin at 1pm. For more information, visit the GSAPP event website.

Smartgeometry 2012 Troy

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:22:49 +0000

Smartgeometry is pleased to announce that sg2012 will be at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, in upstate New York from 19-24 March 2012. The Workshop and conference will be a gathering of the global community of innovators and pioneers in the fields of architecture, design and engineering.

The event will be in two parts, a four-day Workshop 19-22 March, and a public conference beginning with Talkshop 23 March, followed by a Symposium 24 March. The event follows the format of the highly successful preceding events sg2010 Barcelona and sg2011 Copenhagen.

Workshop
The SG Workshop is a unique creative cauldron attracting attendees from across the world of academia, professional practice as well as many of the brightest students. The Workshop is open to 100 applicants who come together for four intensive days of design and collaboration.

The annual Workshop is organised around Clusters. Clusters are hubs of expertise comprising of people, knowledge, tools, materials and machines. The Clusters provide a focus for Workshop participants working together, within a common framework.

Talkshop
After four intense days of innovative work, Talkshop offers an opportunity for critical reflection on what has been accomplished in the Workshop. Talkshop will be an opportunity to open debates, pose questions, challenge orthodoxies, and propose new ideas.

Talkshop will feature informal and open discussions between Cluster participants, leading practitioners and emerging talents in digital design, offering inside perspectives on how the landscape of computational design is reshaping built form.

Symposium
The Symposium will examine the year's Challenge. Invited keynote speakers will showcase major projects and research from around the globe that mark out the territory of the year's Challenge. The Symposium is a unique opportunity to hear insights into the challenges ahead for the discipline.

Interwoven throughout the day will be reports and highlights from each Workshop Cluster, giving an opportunity to view work created during the previous four days of intensive collaboration, design and development.

CASE Presenting to NYC Revit User Group Tomorrow!

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:26:25 +0000

We’re sorry for the last minute notice but if you’re still figuring out your plans for tomorrow night, think about joining CASE’s Alan Jackson as he presents “Revit MEP Good Practices/Lessons Learned” at the Pratt Manhattan Center on 144 W 14th Street at 6:00pm.

Register for the event here and if you can’t attend in person, you can sign-up for the webcast. Either way, there’s no reason to miss it!

3-5 Revolve Surface

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:38:37 +0000

After the curve geometry of the pavilion is established we revolve it into a surface. Here we discuss how to create a surface using the revolve method and issues to consider. The curve structure and form can still be toggled with the inputs already set up.

3-6 Trimming Lists

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:47:35 +0000

To fine tune the geometry of the pavilion we manipulate the lists we already defined. In this video we trim the end of the geometry to end with both sides of the pavilion in symmetry. Lists are an important tool and concept to learn to manipulate data and drive geometry efficiently.

Webinar on EnergyPlus, February 3rd with CASE’s Alan Jackson

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:26:16 +0000

Please join Alan Jackson for a Webinar on EnergyPlus this Friday, February 3 at 1:00pm.

Starting with a brief introduction to the EnergyPlus engine, the webinar will include a 5-minute model creation walk-through with the NREL web-based file creation tool ModelMaker and a discussion on how to begin using EnergyPlus for building performance analysis using the OpenStudio platform tools including the SketchUp plug-in, System Outliner and Results Viewer. If time permits, Alan will also address the Building Component Library as a tool for managing and finding new components for integration into your analysis.

There’s a lot of ground to cover so don’t miss out. Space is limited, reserve your Webinar seat now!
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/243654906

System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server

Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

3-4 Controlling Vectors and Tangents

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:24:36 +0000

With the PolyArc set up, we can adjust the geometry dramatically by setting a new tangent vector. In this video we discuss tangent vectors and how to control them.

3-3 PolyArc from Series

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:21:11 +0000

Once the series of points is set up, we create a curve of continuous polyarcs through them. The radius and direction of these arcs can be changed, along with the base series of points we already created. These arcs, connected together will be revolved into the surface of the Pavilion.

CASE Will Be The Featured Guest During A Week-Long Series Hosted By U Of Utah's College Of Architecture + Planning And ITAC

admin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:03:14 +0000

We are psyched that our very own Mark Green will be the featured guest during a week-long series hosted by the University of Utah's College of Architecture + Planning and Integrated Technology & Architecture Center (ITAC). The series, Digital Process: Parametric Modeling and BIM Integration, will take place from January 23rd to January 27th. It will offer workshops on customized, environmentally-responsive facade systems to parametric modeling and BIM integration workflow.

On the evening of January 26th, Mark will also present "Digital Process", a lecture based on parametric modeling and BIM integration in building design and construction. So if you're in the Salt Lake City area be sure to stop by and check it out!

3-2 Intro to Series

admin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:00:49 +0000

The next tool we use to dynamically update items is the Series. Here we set up a series of points that will become the 'wavelengths' for the Hannover Pavilion modules. The Series component takes inputs for (S) the start value, (N) the value step size, (C) and the number of values in the list.

3-1 Intro to Lists

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:48:53 +0000

In this series we explore the power of lists to drive parametric changes in the Hannover Pavilion from early on in the design to precise details. This first video explains how lists work and gives and overview of the Hannover Pavilion process.

Apply for the Smartgeometry 2012 Workshops! - Deadline Extension to January 15th

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:01:34 +0000

sg2012 Material Intensities: Simulation, Energy, Environment

Smartgeometry Workshops are an annual event - a gathering of leading designers and researchers, programmers and artists, professionals and academics who come together for 4 days of intense collaboration and development within the framework of Computational Design.

The sg2012 Workshop will be organised around Clusters. Clusters are hubs of expertise. They comprise of people, knowledge, tools, materials and machines. The Clusters provide a focus for workshop participants working together within a common framework.

Clusters provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, processes and techniques and act as a catalyst for design resolution. The Workshop is made up of ten Clusters that respond in diverse ways to the sg2012 Challenge Material Intensities.

Applicants to the sg2012 Workshop will select their preferred cluster from the following:

More information about the sg2012 Workshop and Clusters can be found here:

http://smartgeometry.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=116&Itemid=131

The application process will close on January 15th, 2011.

Full Fee $1500
Reduced Fee $750
Scholarship Fee $350

Fees include attendance to both the workshop and conference from March 19th-24th.

Reduced Fee and Scholarships are available only for Academics, Students and Young Practitioners, and are awarded during a competitive peer review process.

sg2012 takes place from 19-24 March 2012 at EMPAC (http://empac.rpi.edu/) and is hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, upstate New York USA. The Workshop and Conference will be a gathering of the global community of innovators and pioneers in the fields of architecture, design and engineering.

The event will be in two parts: a four day Workshop 19-22 March, and a public conference beginning with Talkshop 23 March, followed by a Symposium 24 March. The event follows the format of the highly successful preceding events sg2010 Barcelona and sg2011 Copenhagen.

sg2012 Challenge Material Intensities: Simulation, Energy, Environment

Imagine the design space of architecture was no longer at the scale of rooms, walls and atria, but that of cells, grains and vapour droplets. Rather than the flow of people, services, or construction schedules, the focus becomes the flow of light, vapour, molecular vibrations and growth schedules: design from the inside out.

The sg2012 challenge, Material Intensities, is intended to dissolve our notion of the built environment as inert constructions enclosing physically sealed spaces. Spaces and boundaries are abundant with vibration, fluctuating intensities, shifting gradients and flows. The materials that define them are in a continual state of becoming: a dance of energy and information.

Material potential is defined by multiple properties: acoustical, chemical, electrical, environmental, magnetic, manufacturing, mechanical, optical, radiological, sensorial, and thermal. The challenge for sg2012 Material Intensities is to consider material economy when creating environments, micro-climates and contexts congenial for social interaction, activities and organisation. This challenge calls for design innovation and dialogue between disciplines and responsibilities.

sg2010 Working Prototypes strove to emancipate digital design from the hard drive by moving from the virtual to the actual in wrestling with the tangible world of physical fabrication. sg2011 Building the Invisible focused on informing digital design with real world data. sg2012 Material Intensities strives to energise our digital prototypes and infuse them with material behaviour. They have the potential to become rich simulations informed by the material dynamics, chemical composition, energy flows, force fields and environmental conditions that feed back into the design process.

More information can be found at http://www.smartgeometry.org

Happy Holidays! Here is Gift from CASE - A Revit Checkers Game!

admin — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:45:41 +0000

So… As I was discussing with Don (@AYBABTM) his crazy Revit API Pin Ball Machine (stay tuned) it occurred to me that with worksharing I could make a checkers game in Revit! Don said “I can make it 2 players with worksharing” so that got me thinking… Anyways, channeling David Light and half a flight to Miami later and I have a working checkers game in Revit.

Also Check out:

Zach Kron is rocking out a chess set!!!!!!!!! I love that guy! -> https://twitter.com/#!/ZachKron/status/150237215094607872/photo/1

Here is how it works

1. Enable Worksets

2. Make a local for each player

3. Player 1 makes a move

4. Sync with central

5. Player 2 makes move

6. Sync with central

7. Repeat 3-6 till you have a winner!

Download the latest version below (right click and "save as"):

20111222 (original file)

20111223.1

Added a "King Me" instance parameter to the game piece

20111223.2

Fixed the view names
Added rotated plan views since you can move the pieces in the camera views :(

It has 2 views in it like the image above. 1 for player 1 and 1 for player 2. I think you’ll need some sort of chat client to play across an office but it should keep you entertained while you sync a 400 mb model . Over the break I’ll try and make a starter kit for a chess set. (I’m counting on David Light to make a Starwars set of Pieces).

Anyways, Happy Holidays and thanks so much for supporting CASE and DesignReform. Stay tuned for lots to come in 2012!

Dave and the team at CASE

CASE Apps | Installing Free Revit Add-ins from CASE

admin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:46:41 +0000

We're happy to announce (on designreform anyways) apps.case-inc.com . On CASE apps we're going to try our best to post 1 FREE Revit Add-in a month. Now that Rock Star Don Rudder (@AYBABTM) has been on board as CASE CTO for a bit, he has had some time to play around with some ideas he was cooking up and we have been able to get these Revit Add-ins out in to the wild. In this video we'll walk through how to install the add-ins and how to use the change and replace line tool. (ever exploded a dwg and wanted to swap a bunch of lines?!?!?) . So far we have 3 add-ins and plenty more cued up to go. Here is what we have so far:

Keep checking back to see what is coming up next. Also, feel free to suggest ideas, you never know, we might just make it :)

Intro to Comp. Design - 2.1 Installing Grasshopper

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:39:11 +0000

We start off by installing the Grasshopper plug-in to Rhino.

Intro to Comp. Design - 2.6 Joining the Domain of Curves

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:50:02 +0000

In this video we use the Domain function to collect our inputs and Join to create longer curves.

Intro to Comp. Design - 1.8 Fabrication Issues

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:25:02 +0000

We survey the issues of constructability versus the ease of creating digital surfaces with the options we've learned.

Intro to Comp. Design - 1.7 More Surface Options

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:22:20 +0000

We explore the Loft, Sweep, and Patch commands to create surfaces.

Intro to Comp. Design - 1.5 Surfaces

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:13:30 +0000

With the curves set up, we start creating canopy surfaces.

Intro to Comp. Design - 1.4 Curve Types

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:09:23 +0000

Here we look at the different type of curves and how they are mathematically constructed with control points.

Intro to Comp. Design - 1.3 Freeform Curves

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:07:37 +0000

With the framework set up, we create new edges with different types of freeform curves and beziers.

Intro to Comp. Design - 1.6 Joining Curves and Surfaces

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:17:57 +0000

Here we start to manipulate Curves and use a NetworkSurface to define a canopy.

Intro to Comp. Design - 2.2 Interface and Operations of Grasshopper

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:41:46 +0000

A look at the interface and how Grasshopper operates within Rhino.

Intro to Comp. Design - 2.3 Introduction to the Hannover Pavilion Example

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:43:34 +0000

We start to recreate Shigeru Ban's Hannover Pavilion. We start by drawing the circlular arcs and base geometry.

Intro to Comp. Design - 2.9 Baking and Saving

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:56:19 +0000

With the Grasshopper definiton complete, we go over how to bake geometry, save, and manage the models.

Intro to Comp. Design - 2.8 Stretching the Parametrics of Hannover

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:54:09 +0000

Once our model is complete, we test the parametric dynamism of the Grasshopper definition's inputs and outputs.

Intro To Comp. Design. - 2.5 Using Tangent Arcs and SubCrvs

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:47:30 +0000

Here we define smaller pieces of the puzzle with subcurves.

Intro to Comp. Design - 2.7 Revolve Surface

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:51:59 +0000

This shows how we create the final surface with RevolveSrf.