GH at the Workplace...Welcome Your Input

All,

I would like to get your input on how to propose to use Grasshopper in the professional workplace.

Any suggestions, publications, articles, links, videos..etc that highlight the benefits of using Grasshopper for the project applications listed below would be greatly appreciated...

I have been working with Grasshopper for about a year, but have not had an opportunity to use it in my professional work until now. I am currently working on two projects that are a well suited for a parametric design approach and production workflow:

Auditorium Renovation (750 persons seating capacity)

Multi-family High-rise (Approx. 1 million SF gross floor area)

I am in the process of putting together a brief presentation of the potential benefits of using GH both in Design and Production (we do Pre-Schematic - CD's in-house) to present to the project team. The team is definitely open to new strategies and if I can produce a convincing argument to implement a Rhino+ Grasshopper + Revit/Cad workflow for these two projects, I believe it will help transition our Firm's Design and Production approach for future projects that are deemed suitable.

Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance,

Matt

So far my knowledge of relevant projects includes:

Nathan Miller's published work with NBBJ:

(The Hangzhou Tennis Center: A Case Study in Integrated Parametric Design) + (Parametric Strategies in Civic and Sports Architecture Design)

Particularly, the set of parameters developed to generate desirable viewing angles. This will be a convincing argument to use GH for the Auditorium Renovation.

Lava: Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Snowflake Tower

(Multi-family- Unit Mix, Floor Plate / Unit Mix Subdivision, Variable balcony depth, Real-Time Area calcs, fl. to fl. heights, No. of Floors, Lofted Curtain wall generation, paneling etc.)

Anything like this would be very convincing as a model to present to my team for the high-rise residential project.

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Permalink Reply by Nick Tyrer on September 4, 2012 at 9:20am

Hey Matt

I work for an architects practice where we are currently working on two stadiums. The stadiums concept/form/sightlines/structure is designed entirely through grasshopper, with revit being used for planning and stage d+.

There are four architects who use grasshopper. Sometimes all four of us need to work off the same 'master gh' file, that contains the majority of the stadium. The biggest issue we come across is the workflow between us as we work. If you have only one person working on the script its fine.

But if one person is say updating the base shape of stadium/or rewriting how it works, while another is working on the structure of the roof. how you combine that back with work people are doing separately on different points of the project... Its obviously never a problem i encountered working alone, but a caveat for you if you plan on sharing the gh duties in your office.

In my experience its best for everybody working in the file to know the rules: Careful colour coding, clear labels, keeping records of what you have changed, and regularly updating to central definition.

Does anybody else have similar experience, sharing definitions/working simultaneously on them?