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Simply Rhino Limited 2009 2

Shape to Fabrication 3 - Rhino for Architecture

Date: Wednesday 15th April 2009

Time: 8.45 am to 5.30pm

Cost: 75 + VAT per attendee

enquiries and bookingsemail: [email protected]

or call: 0208 498 9900

Venue: Lecture Theatre

Metropolitan Works

London Metropolitan University

16 Goulston StreetLondonE1 7TP

United Kingom

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Simply Rhino in association with Metropolitan Works are pleased to announce Shape to Fabrication 3.Industry leaders from Architecture, Landscaping, Urban Planning & Engineering will present & share

projects from around the world highlighting issues of design, use of technology and methodology fromconcept forms & shapes, through to complex engineering analysis and final manufacturing.

Narrowing the links between complex and challenging architectural form and fabrication is a strongemphasis of each presentation. "Direct to Fabrication" is a common theme.

Also, you will see the latest developments in Rhino modelling technology, with a look ahead to Rhino 5.0,

plus updates on Grasshopper the graphical algorithm editor for Rhino 4.0, the popular V-Ray for Rhinorendering technology, the terrain modelling and analysis solution RhinoTerrain and more.

Please note that by attending this event you agree to be filmed. Film footage will be used by Simply Rhino

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Provisional Agenda

8.45am to 9.15am

Registration and Coffee

Please arrive in good time to register - we are expecting around 200 delegates.

9.15am to 9.20am

Welcome & Rhino in ArchitecturePaul Cowell and Phil Cook - Simply Rhino Limited

Simply Rhino, organiser of this event, is the UK supplier for Rhino and all Rhino related products and

services.

Established in 2002, Simply Rhino offers Rhino software and key Plug-In support including the popular

V-Ray for Rhino, Rhino Terrain and T-Splines for Rhino.

As certified Rhino Trainers, customers have access to a range of training options from introductory

classes to tailored sessions to solve individual project workflow issues.

9.20am to 9.30am

Inside McNeelScott Davidson - McNeel US

Scott will outline the business strategy and background of Robert McNeel & Associates and summarise

the product development process at the company before moving on to take a look at the latest news onRhino v5 and Rhino for Mac.


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9.30am to 9.45am

Rhino Panelling ToolsGlasgow Museum of Transport

Jonathan Sheridan - Designpartners

When 24,000 standing seam, Zinc tiles were needed to cover the innovative sculptural form of architect

Zaha Hadids, 2009, Glasgow Museum of Transport building in Scotland, Varla UK (specialist zinc andcopper cladding producers) were faced with an interesting set of problems.Every tile had to be individually crafted, to create, a durable, waterproof and perfect fit to the sculptural

outline of the buildings skin contours.

Rhinos new Panelling Tools: Making the job of getting the tiles from 3D model into reality simple.

Tile sizes were driven by criteria added into the plugin Panelling Tools, and dealt with it by using a 3D

point grid system. The staggered tile design, specified by Hadid, could be easily drawn between the200mm pattern points along the Iso-lines of the buildings form.Rhinos ability to create tiling from stringent design criteria is amazing in itself, especially as there are over24,000 individually shaped tiles.Cutting tools have been devised which flatten the tiles, space them outin order and then put them in place to create a dimensioned drawing for each tile.

Image Designpartners

Image Designpartners


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9.45am to 10.15am

Westfield Shopping Centre, LondonPier Head, Liverpool

James Haig Streeter - EDAW

Westfield Shopping Centre, London

A 1.7bn development at Westfield Shopping Centre. Integral to the scheme, EDAW's work on 16,000square meters of landscape and public realm has created a grand entrance, attractive and accessible

pedestrian streets and vibrant interior and exterior public spaces. The generous public realm includesseating, planters, water cascade and expansive living wall.

The streetscape incorporates flowing lines in black and si lver-grey granite paving reflect ing the

pedestrian desire lines, which draws shoppers into the space from the new underground, overground rail

and bus stations completed by the developer. These forms were generated using scripting in Rhino fromconcept through to construction documentation, enabling refinements to be efficiently made, with detail

drawings and bills of quantities automatically generated.

Pier Head, Liverpool

The regeneration of Liverpools primary public realm as part of the its 2008 European City of Culture

celebrations, located within the context of the citys World Heritage Site and famous Three Graces.

A new canal link and landscape improvements form part of a major regeneration programme at the PierHead and adjacent Mann Island area which EDAW has masterplanned and seen through to construction.

The scheme has been modelled in Rhino from the outset of the project, this becoming increasinglyimportant during the detailed design phases. The final scheme comprises a series of sinuous seat wall

elements, their complexgeometry's being cut from solid granite using CNC technology.

Image EDAW Image EDAW

Image EDAW


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10.15am to 10.45am

Expanding the Parametric Domain

The Monterrey Football Stadium and Custom Design ToolsGil Akos & Ronnie Parsons - Studio Mode

In collaboration with the Populous design team, Studio Mode developed a custom model and digital

design environment for a new football stadium in Monterrey, Mexico. This project involved the iterative

development of the stadiums overall form, skin, and associated surface geometry, including material

break-lines and gilled apertures. The unique challenges presented by the design objectives suggested

the development of a parametric yet easily adaptable model to be used by the in-house design team for

the schematic through design development phases. In order to facilitate the use of a non-restrictive

design tool while maintaining precise control over both fixed and yet undefined constraints, we utilized

and further customized Grasshopper, a freely distributed parametric plug-in for Rhinoceros.

The project was undertaken in three phases allowing a concurrent development of both the stadium

geometry and the design environment in which the parametric model would be interfaced. As the design

team further refined the overall geometry, new information from the skin and structural engineering

teams that impacted the design was able to quickly and efficiently be assimilated into the parametric

model. While new technical strategies of including those constraints were necessary in order to address

the changing design of the stadium, each development of the parametric domain was necessarily

tempered by the usability concerns of the fast-moving design team. The controls of the model included

both abstract numeric sliders as well as driver curves based in a 1:1 metric, relating the stadium geometry

directly to its parametric definitions. In accessing the openNURBS library of Rhinoceros through the

creation of scripted nodes in VisualBasic DotNet, we were able to create a fully dynamic parametric model

Image Studio Mode


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and extend its potential for design. Our developmental methodologies for the model, while empowered

by the parametric platform, required the use of these custom and scripted nodes to meet the teams

design agenda. Thus, the extension and resulting adaptability of Grasshopper were of utmost importance

in maintaining usability by the design team while enabling the production of a desired geometrical form.

It is our supposition that the extension of a parametric environment and consequent expansion of design

parameters offers us as designers a robust model for the development of design scenarios. Furthermore,

we propose that the design objectives in this project could not have been achieved without the parallel

development of the project and model by separate entities, which exemplifies in itself a parametric mode

of designing.

Image Studio Mode

Image Studio Mode / Populous


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10.45am to 11.00am

Digital Terrain Modelling for RhinoClaude Vuattoux - Rhino Terrain

Rhino Terrain is powerful terrain modeller fully integrated inside Rhino. In this presentation Claude

Vuattoux will outline some of the exciting new developments for the currently in development Rhino

Terrain v1.5.

Ultra fast terrain creation with constrained Delaunay triangulation (> 2 million triangles per second)Ultra fast contour curve generation that works with extremely large terrain meshGridded terrain generation with user definition Ultra fast viewshed analysis for impact study (television, phone antenna; wind turbine position,house point of view)Terrain slope and height analysisStepped Terrain (ideal for architecture project presentations)Shaded contour lines display Terrain filtering

Cut and fill volume computations Import of 3D GIS data (ArcInfo; ugs dem, Bd Alti) Import from Leica 3D scanner with coloured RGB point cloud

Ultra fast mesh terrain tiling with georeferenced orthophoto support ZCorp 3D printer support for 3D terrain printing

The majority of functions now use the multicore feature (multithreaded) for increased productivity


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11.15am to 11.45am

Madrid Law Courts with Foster and PartnersMediacite Liege with Ron Arad Associates

Emiliano Cevallos and Jalal El-Ali - Buro Happold

Madrid Law Courts

The roof of the project is created from a series of connected triangular panels. The initial design onlycreated the external thus design surface of the building. The challenge was to find the material offset,

meaning structural beams and nodes. The offset was constrained by a maximum distance and all thenodes needed to meet neatly in one point.

We developed an automated routine that optimizes the position of the structure. The original surface was

automatically altered if limits were reached. The panels, structural beams and nodes were allautomatically extracted and documented.

The process kept the design decision in the hands of the designer by allowing for a control over the form

of the building while embedding the understanding of the fabrication rules.

Image Buro Happold / Foster and Partners

11.00am to 11.15am

Break for Refreshments


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Mediacite Liege

with Ron Arad Associates

The Mediacite project in Liege is a complex roof structure comprising a series of compound curves whichextend through the whole length of the building, creating an undulating form. The depth of the beams

varies along their length, adding intricacy to the roof.

Our involvement was to automate the analysis of the beams, simplifying them to resemble a conventionalbeam sections and creating the G-Code for the machines to cut them. In principle we needed to create a

series of infinitely small beams with regular sections that are readable by a conventional cutting machineto cut and weld them. The model is built using rhino script. All building information was extracted

automatically. In the process we recycled Rhino Script routines, using them from the conception of thedesign all the way through to the fabrication of it.


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11.45am to 12.15pm

Santa Maria del Pianto - NaplesSSI _ Smart Structural Interpreter

Fred Labb and Jon Mirtschin - Expedition Engineering

Santa Maria del Pianto - Naples

Expedition Engineering have been designing with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners a 2,300m2 honeycombcanopy roof for the new Santa Maria del Pianto underground station in Naples. The arrangement of the

honeycomb structure, which will be made of 2,700 vertical steel plate elements, has been optimisedusing a genetic algorithm to maximise daylight penetration in the station shaft, provide some degree of

shading on the lift platform at ground level and be structurally efficient.

Evolutionary algorithms operate on a population of possible solutions and apply the principle of survivalof the fittest, generation after generation. This technique has been successfully applied to drive the

ordering of the roof elements as a response to a set of often conflicting objectives. Each steel plateelement will be plasma cut from digital information, which makes the resulting design build-able and

affordable. All scripting was done in VB.NET. The script included parameterisation of the design, a

sunlight assessment module and integration with a structural analysis software

Image Expedition Engineering

SSI _ Smart Structural Interpreter

SSI (Smart Structural Interpreter) is set of plug-ins presently being developed to allow architects andstructural engineers to efficiently model and sculpt structures they are designing, particularly during

early scheming of projects when rapid changes are occurring. The structural drawing utility provides asection database of universal beams, columns, channels and hollow sections to allow these profiles to be

added to rhino models in the form of cross-section curves, brep faces or extruded beams. It also providessmall utilities useful for viewing and manipulating Rhino model files.

Importing and exporting structural data for analysis models has also been developed, primarily for Oasys

GSA with other packages being developed. This allows structural attributes to be retained in the Rhinomodel that are generally lost during typical CAD data transfers. Tools to generate and interpret structural

model attributes from primitive Rhino models are also provided.


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From the very early massing study experimentations to the very final shop drawing production,

parametric techniques have become an invaluable tool for design and development of contemporaryarchitecture.

The KPF Geometry Group will discuss the transforming role of digital design technologies in response to

ever changing requirements throughout the life span of architectural projects. The talk will reflect on the

need for increased flexibility for rapidly adapting to new conditions while maintaining the overallgeometric systems stability.

12.15pm to 12.30pm

The Life Cycle of Associative Modelling in Architectural PracticeJuan E Subercaseaux - Kohn Pederson Fox Computational Geometry Group London


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12.30pm to 12.45pm

Sliders to Structure

Parametric Generation of Structural Analysis Models with RhinoPaul Jeffries - ARUP AGU

Arup AGU uses the free Rhino Plugin Grasshopper to create parametric models that allow changes to themodel to be made quickly and easily. However during the later stages of design these advantages can belost as more manual work is required to produce structural analysis models and making changes

becomes more costly and time-consuming. In order to ease this process of creating a structural modelfrom an architectural one we are currently developing in-house our own Rhino plug-in, Salamander, that

allows structural information to be added to the Rhino geometry and entire structural models to beexported ready for analysis.

During an ongoing project a large amount of geometry needed to be created and the design keptflexible in order to allow the most desirable solution to be found given a large number of considerations.

To facilitate this we have been using Grasshopper in conjunction with Salamander to generate not only

geometry but also structural information required for analysis, such as section sizes, restraints andloading data and to create fully featured analysis models from this information, allowing new changes tothe geometry to be quickly investigated for structural suitability.

12.45pm to 1.45pm

Break for Lunch


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Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Vilnius

This proposal for a museum and cultural centre in Vilnius was the winner of an international competitionbetween Zaha Hadid Architects, Studio Daniel Libeskind and Studio Fuksas.The new centre for

international art will house pieces from collections of both the New York based Solomon R. GuggenheimFoundation and the St. Petersburg based State Hermitage Museum.

The museums sculptural volume is designed along Zaha Hadids characterist ic conceptual terms of

fluidity, velocity and lightness. The building appears like a mystical object floating above the extensiveartificial landscape strip, seemingly defying gravity by exposing dramatic undercuts towards the

surrounding entrance plazas. Large activated green fields flow around the museums sculptural mass,

underlining its enigmatic presence with curvilinear lines echoing the elongated contours of the building.Contrasting with the vertical business district skyline it is a manifestation of Vilnius new cultural

significance.

The design points towards a future architec tural language matching the cultural aims of the newHermitage Guggenheim Vilnius Project. It is part of an innovative research trajectory within ZHA that

embraces latest digital design technology and digital fabrication methods. The application of advanceddigital technology throughout the course of the project enables a seamless workflow from the fluid

shapes of the drawing board to the realisation process. An innovative architectural language meets newtechnologies in order to articulate this projects complexities. By means of ZHAs characteristic dynamic

acceleration curves and sculpted surface modulations the design expresses the projects visioncoherently.

1.45pm to 2.15pm

Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, VilniusBurnham Pavilion, Chicago

Jens Borstelmann & Thomas Vietzke - Zaha Hadid Architects

Image Zaha Hadid Architects


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Burnham Pavilion, Chicago

Zaha Hadid Architects participation in the Burnham Plan Centennial celebrations is a great opportunity to

participate in Chicagos ongoing tradition of bold plans and big dreams with an architectural design atthe scale of a pavilion. Our design will echo Chicagos cutting edge cultural and architectural landscape

by introducing a new Zaha Hadid Pavilion Concept into Millennium Park.

The form of the pavilion is derived from the intersection of ellipsoids creating arching interior spaces that

envelope the visitor flow. The structure is expressed via a series of diagonal sections that are in line withthe historic axis of the unbuilt Plan of Chicago. These arching structural devices are erected along a

gradient and therefore display areas of lesser density towards the centre of the pavilion in order to allowcontrolled daylight into the structure. The louvers in the ceiling underline the design intent of referring to

the historic diagonal that cuts through the site and help to create a vivacious interior space that changesthroughout the day according to sun angles and weather conditions. They appear like cuts in a canvas

and cohere with the choice of material and construction method.

The pavilion is made from a light weight aluminium structure that is then dressed in a tensile fabric. Asfabric behaves in specific ways, once tensile forces are applied, the resulting exterior skin undulates inanticlastic curvatures along the guiding rails of the aluminium substructure. The aluminium ribs are

deliberately expressed through the external skin.

In the pavilions interior the materiality corresponds with its exterior. The continuity of material allows fora coherent overall look and feel. Since the pavilion will serve as a display for projections layers of fabric

are integrated in its interior walls that allow for front and back as well as for double projections takingplace throughout the day. Layering of fabric and of images create visual highlights and involve the visitor

in a unique overall experience. The superimposition of visual materials and the visitor within the pavilionleads to the integration of the pavilion, the visitor and the display. The pavilion becomes the display and

the visitor becomes part of the image.



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2.15pm to 2.45pm

Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Vilnius with Zaha Hadid ArchitectsShanghai Expo with Heatherwick Studio

Heydar Aliyev Merkezi with Zaha Hadid ArchitectsSawako Kaijima and Panagiotis Michalatos - Adams Kara Taylor

Adams Kara Taylor closely collaborates with architects in taking on innovative projects, stretching the

envelope of what is possible today within the realm of digital technologies. We will present projectswhere our Computational Design Consultancy team developed custom plug-ins for rhino with real time

interactive interfaces in order to solve different problems faced in each project. The projects includeVilnius Cultural Museum [Zaha Hadid Architects], Shanghai Expo [Heatherwick Studio], Heydar Aliyev

Merkezi [Zaha Hadid Architects], and our in-house research on Structural Patterns[AKT.]

The computational design team within p.art AKT focuses on designing the integration methods for

various concerns raised by different parties [architect, structural engineer, environmental engineer,fabricator, etc] involved in architectural projects. We develop custom software for each project with

interactive interface so as to facilitate communication between the entire team as well as betweendifferent software tools [architecture modeling software, FEM analysis software] employed for the

project. Our aim is to bridge the existing gap between the parties by stretching the envelope of what ispossible today within the realm of digital technologies and pragmatically addressing contemporary

design, structure and construction goals.

Sawako Kaijima studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she received her Master's ofArchitecture. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Information majoring in Media Design from

Keio University, Japan.

Panagiotis Michalatos studied Architecture at NTUA Athens Greece and graduated in 2001. He then went

to Sweden to study at the art and technology course in Gothenburg a program jointly organized byChalmers and IT-Universitet.



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3.00pm to 3.30pm

Spencer Dock Bridge - Dublin[C]space DRL10 Pavilion

Alan Dempsey - NEX Architecture

Based in London at the centre of an international network of the worlds leading design consultants andspecialists, Nex is a new breed of multi-disciplinary design office that focuses on the intersection between

architecture, infrastructure and urban design, and pursues innovation both in its design processes and in

the environments it creates. As a small office we often work in a collaborative team and the presentationwill focus on two projects that have been recently completed.

Spencer Dock Bridge, Dublin.

Designed and delivered in collaboration with Future Systems this project is an in-situ and precast

concrete structure that contains a landscape of vehicle, light rail, and generous pedestrian traffic. Theedges of the structure curl down to reveal a space for pedestrians to pause and enjoy the views of the

canal and the new linear park on either bank away from the immediate vicinity of the road. The

presentation will discuss how constraint based modelling in Rhino was used to develop and manage theseamless geometry and manufacture the double curved formwork.

2.45pm to 3.00pm

Metroplitan WorksEd Alves - Technical Manager Metropolitan Works

Metropolitan Works, part of London Metropolitan University, is a unique centre that supports Londons

creative industries and offers commercial services to design and architectural businesses. Ed Alves willgive an overview of the latest digital manufacturing technologies available at Metropolitan Works. The

facilities available include; rapid prototyping, laser cutting, 3D scanning, CNC routing and water jetcutting.

Image Alan Dempsey


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[C]space DRL10 Pavilion, London & Singapore.

Designed and delivered in collaboration with Alvin Huang, Rieder and the AADRL, this project was the

winning competition entry for a temporary pavilion to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the DesignResearch Lab at the AA. The pavilion is a network lattice structure of thin fibre reinforced concrete panels

and steel plate. Over 850 unique flat concrete elements are connected to produce a coherent curved form

that merges floor, walls roof and furniture. The presentation will show how Rhino was used to constrain

and parameterise a free-form model during successive iterations, and subsequently manage thegeneration of all fabrication and assembly information.

3.30pm to 3.45pm

Break for Refreshments

Image Alan Dempsey


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3.45pm to 4.15pm

GrasshopperDavid Rutten - McNeel US

For architects and designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms, Grasshopper is a

graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhinos 3D modelling tools. Unlike RhinoScript,

Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build formgenerators from the simple to the awe inspiring. In this presentation, David will look at the latestdevelopments of this inspiring software.

4.15pm to 4.30pm

VisualARQ

Cristina Gomez Lvoff- Asuni CAD

This unique and fully integrated plug-in for Rhino offers a powerful feature based editor that allows you

to easily create and edit smart/custom architectural objects. VisualARQ has an architecture specifictoolset that makes the design and documentation process faster and easier to handle.

Image AsuniCAD created with VisualARQ and Savanna3D rendered in Brazil for Rhino


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4.30pm to 5.00pm

SMART Modelling and Simulation ToolsPushing Boundaries with Rhino Programming

Dr Shrikant Sharma, Robert Hart and Al Fisher - Buro Happold SMART Groip

SMART Buro Happolds team of innovators are able to continually deliver cutting edge and efficient

solutions, thanks to the teams specialised in-house suite of novel modelling and simulation tools. Theteam has developed several professional 3D graphical applications, many of which plug-in directly to

commercial CAD or CAE applications such as Rhino 3D, AutoCAD, Digital Projects (CATIA), Robot, andAnsys. The presentation will cover some of these tools that push the boundaries through Rhino based

programming. Live demos will cover applications that range from complex geometry optimisation(SMART Form) to crowd flow simulations (SMART Move).

Image Buro Happold SMART Group


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5.00pm to 5.30pm

Q&A to all speakers

5.30pm to 8.00pm approx

Networking and DrinksMetropolitan Works

The evening reception will include a tour of Metropolitan Works which offers a wide range of professional

Rapid Prototyping and Digital Manufacturing services to the Design and Architecture industries. Theseservices include four rapid prototyping technologies, laser cutting, 5 axis CNC routing, water jet cutting

and 3D scanning. On the tour you will see the stunning new 4.5 million building designed by Cartwright

Pickard Architects, including its impressive workspaces and 2 million worth of state of the art rapidprototyping and digital manufacturing technology.

Evening Reception Address:The Showroom - London Metropolitan University41 Commercial Road

LondonE1 1LA

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