The Poppy - Shrine of Remembrance Melbourne

Here's a stunning success of the Grasshopper to Analysis/BIM workflows with the assistance of the Geometry Gym tools.

John Noel of Irwin Consult in Melbourne emailed me earlier today with some images of a stunning feature recently added to the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance.

Here's some images by John Gollings which are featured on the Irwin website and this article.
http://architectureau.com/articles/shrine-of-remembrance/

I look forward to visiting this in my pending return to Victoria.  You can read more about the details of this project at the  ARM Architecture website and Irwin Consult website.  Grasshopper, GSA and Revit were involved in the design and documentation of this stunning feature.

Congratulations to all involved.  If you've work that's published/built and it involved the Geometry Gym tools, please let me know and I will be glad to promote it on the blog.

Melbourne OpenBIM Event

SIAL (Spatial information Architecture Laboratory) at RMIT University in Melbourne have been very generous to host an OpenBIM event on the evening of Monday the 18th February.  

It's a great privilege to announce that Dr Thomas Liebich is also in Melbourne at this time.  Thomas is the leader of the IFC Development team for Building Smart International based in Germany, and also a director of AEC3.

Thomas will present on the IFC standard (past, current and future) including the imminent release of IFC4 as an ISO standard.

I will also present on OpenBIM workflows and the research/development I've done in the past 3 years.  This will include insights into project application of generative BIM workflows from Grasshopper to Revit and Tekla.  I will also be discussing why current IFC implementations by BIM software vendors have only utilized IFC to a fraction of it's capability and potential.   I will also demonstrate benefits design teams can realize from collaboration of model sharing using IFC including Fabrication, Analysis and Design ( Structural, Energy, Egress, Building Regulation compliance), Facility Management etc.

Please rsvp if you'd like to attend to jonm@geometrygym.com or contact me for more details.  We plan to start presentations at 6pm, but will be there from 5:30pm at the multi-purpose room of the Design Hub (Level 1).
Design Hub
RMIT University
150 Victoria Street (Corner of Swanston & Victoria Street)
Melbourne VIC 3001

Note there will be a second event hosted at Arup on the Wednesday evening.  More details to be posted shortly.

IFC - What It Is and Why You Should Care?

IFC - What It Is and Why You Should Care?

Christopher Zoog of HOK presented this great explanation to the New York City Revit User Group earlier this week.  HOK are certainly pushing and pursuing IFC in a number of impressive ways into their workflows, including pressure on software providers (such as myself).  They are not alone, but this provides some great insights into what is possible and what will be.

Thanks to Ryan Shultz for recording and enabling sharing.

Tekla exchange Grasshopper/Rhino

The Geometry Gym Grasshopper/Rhino plugin to generate and import Tekla model data will be presented by RhinoForYou and Decode at the France Tekla User Days in Paris and Toulouse.

Decode will be explaining the use of the connector to generate fabrication data from Grasshopper for the impressive Canopée des Halles de Paris project.  Hopefully I can post details on this here soon for those unable to attend.

I recorded a couple of youTube videos to further explain graphical programming in Grasshopper for Tekla users, and outline fabrication model attributes presently available including assemblies, welds, bolts and cut parts and planes. (I will gladly accept requests for more)

Wembley Arch Grasshopper File  Twisting Tower Grasshopper File

In Progress: Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame

It's great to see details being published on projects that have been developed with assistance of Geometry Gym plugins for Grasshopper/Rhino.

ArchDaily has posted this article on the Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame.

Method Design (in the design team with role as Geometry and Detailing Consultant) used the Geometry Gym plugin to exchange the Grasshopper geometric steel framing model into Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis  where analysis and design checks could be conducted accurately by David Kufferman P.E.  The model could then be exchanged beyond for coordination and fabrication.  You can also find more details and other links by David Stasiuk on the Grasshopper website.  

Fantastic projects utilizing Geometry Gym

Obtaining permission from commercial users (and their clients) is difficult, but it's nice to see some fantastic work published from the University of Innsbruck.  Congratulations to [UTO] and the designers researching and studying there.

Thomas Buseck has recently posted details of his projects at http://thomasbuseck.blogspot.com/  Very impressive and I look forward to seeing more of your work.

Benjamin Ennemoser has also been combing the various Rhino/Grasshopper plugins to develop the form for his thesis project, details at his blog http://ennben.blogspot.com/

It's always great to see the project work assisted by the Geometry Gym tools (thanks to all those who email me images and details), and if you'd like to also see your work raised here, please let me know.

Skulpture

Wieland Schmidt recently posted two stunning renders of sculpture produced utlizing Geometry Gym StructDrawRhino routines in Grasshopper3d.  The components for geodesic domes, cell filleting and mesh inflation were used.  Fantastic work Wieland, thanks for sharing and would be nice to see them created in the real world.

2010 SEI Student Structural Design Competition

Congratulations to Ben Sitler on being awarded 2nd place in the 2010 SEI Student Structural Design Competition.

Ben entered the competition on his own, against teams from around the US.  He found the efficient work flow gained from using the Geometry Gym Rhino plug-ins gave him an advantage against teams.

Ben has been kind enough to permit me to show his Gridshell design for Jadwin Hall.  These images are taken from his Thesis, Sitler, Ben. “Integrated Digital Design to Construction Workflow: from a structural engineer’s perspective.” Thesis, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2010. Print.

Grasshopper Gallery

I thought I'd post some images of some great work being posted on the Grasshopper NING.
Unfortunately most commercial projects are kept in house, but it's nice to see these results in the public domain.

Primarily StructDrawRhino has been used in Grasshopper, in partnership with other plug-ins for some.  If you'd like to have your own work displayed, let me know and I'll add it in.

Wieland Schmidt

Mark James

Chris E (work in progress)

Ivan Kiryakov (Refer blog post Going Green or Ivan's Gallery)

More to come....