Please Be Seated

London 2019 – British designer Paul Cocksedge has created Please Be Seated, an undulating communal bench in Finsbury Avenue Square in the heart of Broadgate, London.

Parametric Table

In this grasshopper example file you can design a parametric table by defining a base mesh and extracting the main lines. Finally you can model the table legs parametrically.

Bend Timber Grid shells

In this paper by B. D’Amico, and A. Kermani, H. Zhang, a ‘facilitating’ numerical framework is introduced in which, for a given continuous reference shape, a geometrically similar discrete model is found by implementation of a six degree of freedom formulation of the Dynamic Relaxation method, to handle members bending and torsional stiffness.

GridShell Pavilion

In this grasshopper example file, you can model a GridShell Pavilion by defining diagonal Beams parametrically ad using the Kangaroo & Pufferfish plugin.

Serpentine Pavilion

The 2016 Serpentine Pavilion, designed by BIG, has today been unveiled at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park, London.

Kangaroo Mechanism

In this grasshopper example, you can model an Archimedes Machine parametrically by using the Kangaroo plugin.

The Ongreening Pavilion

This paper by John Harding, Will Pearson, Harri Lewis, and Stephen Melville, describes the work of Ramboll Computational Design during the design and construction of the Ongreening Pavilion timber gridshell.

Parametric Roof

In this grasshopper example file you can design a Parametric roof by defining linear arrayed curves and scaling them with a graph mapper to model the structural beams and also a controllable loft surface.

Harpa Concert Hall

Copenhagen studio Henning Larsen Architects and Icelandic studio Batteriid Architects have completed a concert hall and conference centre in Reykjavík, Iceland, in collaboration with artist Olafur Eliasson.

Glazed Spaceframe

In this grasshopper example file, you can model a Glazed Spaceframe with Nodes, Beams and Glass panels Parametrically.

Hexa Tower

In this Grasshopper example file you can create a pattern using a combination of Lunchbox and the basic Grasshopper components.

The Segment Lath

The paper by John Haddal Mork, Steinar Hillersøy Dyvik, Bendik Manum, Anders Rønnquist, and Nathalie Labonnote introduces a kinematic gridshell principle built with the smallest possible module.

Timber Plate Pavilion

In this grasshopper example file, you can design a parametric timber plate Pavilion using the ngon Plugin.

Twisting Bamboo Installation

Spanish fashion brand Loewe has reopened its Barcelona flagship, which it has transformed into a gallery-like space with an undulating bamboo installation that winds across its surfaces.

Radial Pavilion

In this grasshopper example file, you can design a parametric radial Pavilion.

Super-Thin Anisotropic Gridshell

The paper by Roberto Naboni discusses the process of computational design, analysis and fabrication for a lightweight super-thin gridshell structure.

Anemone Scissor Structure

In this grasshopper example, you can model a deployable scissor structure with variable elements parametrically.

Conifera Installation

For Salone del Mobile 2019, COS partnered with French architect Arthur Mamou-Mani and his eponymous studio to create Conifera, a large scale installation which imagined the future of design, technology and material innovation to create an ethereal journey.

Parametric Stair

In this grasshopper example file, you can model a Parametric stair using Grasshopper native components.

Parametric Lamp Shade

In this grasshopper example file you can design a parametric lamp shade using the Pufferfish plugin.

Geodesic Gridshell

This paper by Enrique Soriano defines geodesic gridshells and discusses their suitability for scarce budgets and low-tech manufacturing of free-form shells.

Genome Facade

In this grasshopper example file, you can model a parametric facade with timber elements similar to the Genome Building’s facade.

Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center

Hangzhou by NBBJ is an Olympic sport center with 80,000 seats which designed to evoke the lotus flowers found in the West Lake, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Hangzhou that is celebrated for its gardens and temples.

Contour Facde

In this grasshopper example file you can use the native grasshopper components to generate a contoured facade by solid differences.

Timber Gridshells

In this context by Philippe Charest, André Potvin, Claude M. H. Demers, and Sylvain Ménard, there is a renewed interest in systems allowing the materialization of curved surfaces such as timber gridshells, which can be defined as shells with their structures concentrated in strips.