PARAMETRIC DESIGN: Introduction to Grasshopper and Performance Driven Design

This Parametric Design workshop will be a two-day workshop covering fundamental principles and concepts of using Grasshopper integrated within a performance driven design pipeline. The participants will learn the essential skills of manipulating  geometry using various computational methods. The workshop will specifically demonstrate how to control the performance related data flow from Autodesk Ecotect, Vasari and Maya into the parametric modeling environment of Grassshopper; how to generate complex 2D/3D patterns based on the abstract relationship among points, lines and surfaces; how to integrate Rhino’s surface modeling with Maya’s mesh modeling; how to use performance data baked from other program as the driver to manipulate adaptive geometries across the building skin.

Lecture Topics

• Parametric design concepts
• Computation for Performance Driven Design
• Morphing geometry and biomimicry
• Surfaces and meshes

Demonstrations

• Image based tessellation
• Pattern making
• Paneling with adaptive objects
• Box morphing and variations
• Vertex color based object morphing, integrating Maya with Grasshopper
• Geometry manipulation based on the solar data from Ecotect and Vasari

Dates

- July 10, 2012 : Workshop Announced + Registration Opens.
- August 15, 2012 : Registration Closes.
- August 18 &19, 2012: Workshop.

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