LUMANOTUS | Inflatable Installation

area.architecture's collaborative project LUMANOTUS (with the Winston Salem Lighting Project) was installed from November 13-17 for the 6 Days in November Arts Festival. More information and images of the project can be found on the website here.

ACADIA Conference | San Fransisico

Glenn will be presenting his and Anca Trandafirescu's (area.architecture) research project 'Cutwork: Robotic Hotwire Foam Cutting for Producing Variable Pre-cast Units' at the ACADIA conference in San Fransisco on Friday, Oct. 19. More info on the project can be found on their practice site here.

Kitchen Tent | Parametric Project

This is a video of a current project in our office, area.architecture, in which we developed a parametric system in grasshopper to manipulate the overall form - which will have to negotiate a tightly wooded site and respond to particular sun and wind directions. After the main regulating lines are developed in GH a Rhinoscript is run to create the structure. The structure will eventually be clothed in sailcloth. See the area website for more details on the project - which is ongoing. Note: this video is without sound. Total Length 5.45

tetra | n - Runner Up! TEX-FAB Competition

area.architectures competition entry to the TEX-FAB Repeat competition. Project is created utilizing rhinoscript - details at the area. website.

Scripted Scalable Truss

This is a current project I'm playing around with - a scalable truss form - in which the thickness of the surface and the degree of the offset is determined by the distance from the ground plane. This was done in rhinoscript - which I found easier to do than in grasshopper. However, I have a student in studio who has developed a similar system in grasshopper. My plan is to design more complex geometry with the system and more sophisticated levels of control for varying thickness and opening - eventually fabricating a full scale cast construction.

Rhinoscript Work

A little over a month ago I went to a 3 day workshop in Chicago that was part of the Acadia conference. I was looking forward to an intensive 8-9hrs a day for 3 days - for better comprehension - and was not disappointed. Below are a few images of some things that came out of the workshop - nothing refined yet - but also an opportunity to play around with vray for rhino - as I usually do most of my rendering in max.

My plan is to do a sort of comparative analysis between rhinoscript and grasshopper. The question being - what is the advantage of learning script if we have tools such as grasshopper and paneling tools - through which we can create similar forms? Which is apparent through some of the examples below. My first conclusion is that understanding - at least some fundamentals of scripting - has helped me comprehend geometry, functionality, and logic of grasshopper to a greater degree - also there is obviously a greater selection of tools available in scripting then in grasshopper - although many you have to run through command lines (not actually part of the script) such as, pipe, patch, and fillet. My intention is to cover scripting in future versions of the Generative Design Computing Class. More scripting stuff to come...