Blender 2.8x - Houdini procedural modeling!

 Very interesting combination, especially on a free software!

Generative Design Research Methodology by Dr. Ir. Pirouz Nourian

 

Graph Algorithms for Architectural Design

If we can use a bubble diagram to study the relationship between different spaces, with the current new Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language, Neo4j, graph-based programming language and graph algorithms, can it be applied for architectural design, can graph algorithms automate certain analysis to inspire design ideas?

with the help of Google:

• Algorithms in graph theory and their use for solving problems in architectural design (J.Roth & R.Hashimshony, )
• The Graph Geometry for Architectural Planning

and it's so easy to learn Cypher:

• https://medium.com/@vladbatushkov/learn-neo4j-cypher-basics-in-30-minutes-94d68a52544 (simple explanation)
• https://youtu.be/l76udM3wB4U (20mins video by Ryan Boyd)
• https://neo4j.com/blog/why-database-query-language-matters/?ref=cypher/#cypher (simple pattern)

LDAC aims at providing a forum for technical discussion on the topic of handling data in architecture and construction. to find out more...

• https://linkedbuildingdata.net/ldac2020/

Dynamo Python

Project Refinery with Dynamo

Dynamo Script shared at:
http://bimsg.org/computational/
Reference Case Study:
Ryan Cameron - http://architectmachines.com/library/building-generator-fractal-power-bi/
(Building Generator – Cuboid by CS, from Dynamo to Power BI)

Feature Manipulation Engine (FME)

'FME is the data integration platform with the best support for spatial data. 
Run workflows on the desktop or deploy them in a server or cloud environment.' to find out more...

All functions:

• https://www.safe.com/transformers/

Webinars here:

• https://www.safe.com/webinars/unveiling-fme-2019/
• https://www.safe.com/training/recorded/

ESRI FME:

• http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/datainterop/mergedProjects/FME_Workbench/what_is_fme.htm

Image via https://www.safe.com/blog/2019/02/fme-server-automations-evangelist185/

International Building Design Competition 2019

Luxury Cash Rewards with 1st prize at Sgd 10k, 2nd prize at Sgd 7k, 3rd prize 5k, Merit 1k (5nos). To find out more...
Registration link: https://www.buildingcareers.gov.sg/transdisciplinarycompetition
https://www.buildingcareers.gov.sg/Events/Featured-Events-aspx

Computational Practice Lab 06 091 - by Jeremy Roh

Algorithmic Architecture in TED Talks June 2012 by Michael Hansmeyer

speckle.works

One of the common issues in the construction industry is to communicate effectively and interoperating among different software platforms, disciplines, organisations and working levels. Speckle is an open source (MIT) initiative for developing extensive Design and data communication and collaboration platform (Stefanescu, 2015). To find out more...

Reference

Dimitrie Stefanescu (2015). Speckle: One digital infrastructure for designing, making and operating the built environment [online] Speckle.works. Available at: https://speckle.works/ [Accessed 30 Nov. 2018].

Origami Architecture

Image via Prado Design, Inspiration: Origami Architecture:

• http://prado-designs.com/en_GB/inspiration-origami-architecture/

Computational Origami

• https://www.eecs.mit.edu/news-events/announcements/computational-origami

Origami Works:

• https://langorigami.com/artworks/
• https://singaporeorigamiguy.wordpress.com/
• http://erikdemaine.org/
• http://combustus.com/dinh-truong-giang/
• http://www.tsg.ne.jp/TT/cg/index.html
• http://origami-art.us/
• https://www.pinterest.com/pin/473792823274830750/
• https://www.pinterest.com/pin/399976010627352108/?lp=true
• http://found-here.info/wet-origami/wet-origami-wet-fold-origami-technique-gives-wavy-personality-to-paper-animals-template-3/
• http://keepfoldingon.com/
• https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/origami-elephant-tutorial-4138605

Interesting links for origamists:

• http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/between-the-folds/people.html

Contracts with Solidity (Ethereum) or Golang (Hyperledger)

Related Links:
https://www.edureka.co/blog/hyperledger-vs-ethereum/

MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning - Tutorials and Tools

DUSPviz is an initiative of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies & Planning to improve departmental capacity in data analysis, visual representation, and technological communication tools. The mission is to improve planning through the open sharing of knowledge and technology and teach concepts and fundamentals manifested through common communication tools and cutting edge technology.

Most of the DUSPviz workshops and sessions are preserved as tutorials for reference, this page contains DUSPviz tutorials and workshop materials, including videos, handouts, and datasets. While we try to get all material online, certain material does not lend itself to posting. Contact DUSPviz if you have a suggestion for a tutorial or resource, or to request material that might not be online. to find out more...


From one site leads to another, the image is showing the design explorer available for free online by Thornton Tomasetti.

Text via http://duspviz.mit.edu/index.php
Image via http://tt-acm.github.io/DesignExplorer/
Some Interesting Links:

• http://core.thorntontomasetti.com/design-explorer/
• http://core.thorntontomasetti.com/ttx-interoperability-platform/
• http://core.thorntontomasetti.com/tag/customsoftwaredevelopment/
• http://duspviz.mit.edu/tutorials/importing-gis-data-to-grasshopper/
• https://www.food4rhino.com/app/tt-toolbox

Proposal for a Highrise and Mixed Used Building, Tokyo

From 2D planning to vertical space integration.
Interesting links:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/272397477446946526/
https://www.behance.net/gallery/4141925/Highrise-Proposal-Tokyo

Image via https://www.behance.net/alexanderdaxboeck

Computational Design Introduction by Pirouz Nourian

Related links:
https://www.slideshare.net/PirouzNourian/intro-computational-designmega20161withrecommendedplugins

How Galapagos works

Professional Practice Examination (PPE)

This is an important link for those who is sitting PPE in Singapore:

• https://thesingaporearchitect.wordpress.com/2016/08/13/blog-post-title-4/
• https://ricebarrel.wordpress.com/mugging/ppe-exam-papers/

cad to rvt & skp to rvt

You can extract CAD data with 'EATTEXT' command and follow the 8 steps for the information needed and convert them into csv file, to be opened in excel and imported by Dynamo, transfer to Revit.

Or Bimorphnodes maybe the package you can explore in Dynamo.

Related links:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-map-3d/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Civil-3D-How-to-extract-AutoCAD-points-to-CSV-file.html

For skp to rvt, please refer link below:
http://www.martinportfolio.com/blog/2016/3/22/sketchup-to-revit-with-dynamo

Blockchain for construction industry

Automated real-time validation with blockchain mechanism applied during the design and construction phase.

Image from PLOS via  http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0163477.g011&size=large

Related links:

• http://www.bimplus.co.uk/people/blockchain-and-construction-how-why-and-when/
• http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0163477#abstract0
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187770581733179X
• https://bimchain.io/index.php/en/home/
• https://lutecium.io/en/blog-2/

Algorithmic Sketchbook

Develop your own sketch book!

Dynamo:
https://issuu.com/cesarecaoduro/docs/dynamotutorial.docx
https://issuu.com/iuidesign/docs/dynamo_language_manual_final

Grasshopper
https://issuu.com/emilylucchesi/docs/
https://issuu.com/meganrodgers8/docs/algorithmic_sketchbook
https://issuu.com/ornellaaltobelli/docs/algorithmic_sketchbook_ornella_alto
https://issuu.com/pabloherrera/docs/generative_algorithms_f07be9052a219d
https://issuu.com/jaydenzhaoxuchang/docs/591345_xuchang_zhao
https://issuu.com/mitchell.xu/docs/air_studio_algorithmic_sketchbook

Image from https://issuu.com/mitchell.xu/docs/air_studio_algorithmic_sketchbook

Dynamo Spatial Planning - Dynamo

To find out more...

Related youtube videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxncsb9u974

How to start your blockchain journey?

I am starting my journey to blockchain learning!
IBM is offering free learnings:
https://developer.ibm.com/blockchain/

Dynamo with Power BI

Other interesting links:
http://architectmachines.com/library/building-generator-fractal-power-bi/
https://home.fractal.live/getting-started

SFDUG Jan 2018 | Machine Learning and Computational Design Adoption

Related links:
http://designspaceconstruction.org/
http://www.m-ouf.com/

10,000 options in one project

"Generative design is essentially a process that mimics nature, using cloud computing to take an evolutionary approach to design.

The process begins by defining a set of goals for your design as well as parameters that will restrict it, then uses a computer to crunch through all of the possible permutations to find the best option." To find out more...

Image & passage from https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/best-practice/technology/how-generative-design-turns-10000-ideas-into-one-project/10016805.article

Sefaira Architecture

"Sefaira Architecture is a collaborative, cloud-based software that combines an engaging, easy-to-learn interface with validated industry-standard analysis engines. It equips firms who care about building performance to:

• Produce high-performing design concepts from the early design stages;
• Collaborate across disciplines and across firms;
• Educate and empower their teams to adopt Performance-Based Design; and
• Communicate their success with Performance-Based Design across the firm and to the market." to find out more...

Passage via http://sefaira.com/sefaira-architecture/

McKinsey & Company on AI

"Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere. We experience it at home and on our phones. Before we know it—if entrepreneurs and business innovators are to be believed—AI will be in just about every product and service we buy and use. In addition, its application to business problem solving is growing in leaps and bounds. And at the same time, concerns about AI’s implications are rising: we worry about the impact of AI-enabled automation on the workplace, employment, and society."  to find out more...

Passage and Image via https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/mckinsey-analytics/our-insights/what-ai-can-and-cant-do-yet-for-your-business

Collaborate, Coordinate and Integrate through autodesk BIM 360

Related links https://bim360.autodesk.com/

Computational Design for BIM

"Computational Design for BIM is an intelligent model-based process that provides a framework for negotiating and influencing the interrelation of internal and external building parameters." to find out more...
Image and Text from Autodesk

Precision Modelling with Blender for architecture

We have tutorials since 2008 on Precision Modelling with Blender for architecture by Yorik in https://yorik.uncreated.net/tutorials/precisionmodelling-blender.html
Why architects should explore on Blender: http://blendermama.com/why-blender
Related link:
https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?403082-Precision-Modeling-in-Blender-Tools-and-Addons-free-ebook-available
http://pdfsr.com/check_download/precision-modeling-in-blender-tools-and-addons

Parametric Design

"Parametric Design uses defined parameters to generate numerous designs with the aid of algorithms. This can help with productivity as well as innovation to create multiple designs and configurations of products and architecture which would have not surfaced using traditional methods, not to mention all done in a fraction of the time needed with the power of computers. This reading list has an emphasis in architectural design and features literature from 1981 to present to help give an idea of the beginnings of parametric design to current methods." to find out more...

Passage via https://library.sutd.edu.sg/sulb/weeklydiscovery/Parametic%20Design.pdf

related articles:
http://www.digitaleng.news/de/ai-wants-seat-design-table/

Divisare

"Divisare Books is a high-quality, independent editorial project dedicated to architecture documents, a modular publication of monographic issues each tackling a different topic: drawings collections, photographic surveys, visual essays, short writings, interviews, etc." to find out more...
Passage and Image via https://divisare.com/selected-projects/top

DreamSketch: Sketching + Generative Design

Fabricate

Fabricate is looking for partners and support in building a world leading resource for design and making. There are quality work shared through Fabricate books since 2011. to find out more...
Image from Fabricate 2017 via http://www.fabricate2017.org/2017/04/08/fabricate-book-free-download/

Parametric Modeling with Sverchok

"Sverchok is a powerful parametric tool for architects, allowing geometry to be programmed visually with nodes. Mesh and geometry programming consists of combining basic elements such as:

• lists of indexed Vectors representing coordinates (Sverchok vectors are zero based)
• lists of grouped indices to represent edges and polygons.
• matrices (user-friendly rotation-scale-location transformations)" to find out more...

Image via https://blender-brussels.github.io/articles/parametric-modeling-with-sverchok/
Passage via https://github.com/nortikin/sverchok
Related links:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Nodes/Sverchok
http://blendersushi.blogspot.sg/2014/01/sverchok-get-to-know.html
https://sverchok.readthedocs.io/en/latest/main.html

Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie)

"Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) is a non-proprietary data format for the publication of a subset of building information models (BIM) focused on delivering asset data as distinct from geometric information." to find out more...

Blender - Introduction to Tessellations

Blender is free, why not give it a try for computational design and modelling with Blender?

Related link: 

https://github.com/alessandro-zomparelli/tissue