Kinetic Wind Facade
In this grasshopper example file, you can model a parametric Kinetic facade which reacts to a random wind, generated with Kangaroo2 Plugin.
Digital Fabrication
This thesis by David M.Sperling and Pablo C.Herrera, responds to the need to grasp more widely the Latin American digital fabrication context linked to the field of architecture.
Magnetic Field Facade
In this Rhino Grasshopper example file, You can design a parametric facade by defining force fields. These fields can change the final pattern emerging on the facade surface.
Shade facade
In this Rhino Grasshopper example file, You can design a folding shade facade. A point attractor can also be used to change the folding pattern parametrically.to change the angle of these shades.
Performance-Based Design
This thesis by Carmo Gonçalves Machado Cardoso, intends to develop a combination of parametric design, analysis tools and optimization algorithms in order to find an optimal design solution, based on a specific architectural design as a conceptual basis.
Spiral Staircase
In this grasshopper example file, you can model a parametric spiral staircase and then use the weaverbird plugin to turn it into a parametric organic stair.
Mesh+ Jewelry
In this grasshopper example file you can model a series of parametric rings made by the Mesh+ Plugin and change the shape by defining a point attractor.
Algorithmic-based Building Information Modelling
This thesis by Sofia Teixeira de Vasconcelos Feist, propose A-BIM as an algorithmic approach to BIM that can offer great benefits to architectural design.
Deformed Truss
In this grasshopper example file you can model a parametric roof with a series of trusses. The base mesh is deformed with the Spatial Deform component and the edges are used to model the parametric trusses.
ARCHITECTURE IN-PLAY
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) As we embrace a world in which the lines between the physical and the digital are increasingly blurred, we see a maturing vision for architecture that actively participates in our lives. In the few years since the original Interactive Architecture was published, a number of projects have been built [...]
Mesh+ Facade
In this grasshopper example file you can model a parametric facade and control the form by a series of Point attractors. The base pattern is modeled by Mesh+ plugin.
Polygonal Building
In this grasshopper example file you can model a parametric building by using a series of polygons oriented around an ellipse and then use the Weaverbird plugin to model the windows and frames.
Motion In Architecture
This video by Negar Kalantar is a path to achieving profound knowledge about the conception and realization of motion in architecture.
Parametric Clothes
In this grasshopper example file you can use a combination of Force field components
and the Stella3D plugin to create a parametric cloth.
Fractal Column
In this grasshopper example file you can generate a fractal-like sturcture between a series of points and a Nurbs surface.
Adaptive Kinetic Patterns
This thesis by Jamil Majed Jamil Alkhayyat, aims to create a framework that provides strategy for designing adaptive kinetic patterns within the digital modelling phase that implemented by parametric and generative design tools, for making changes in the spatial quality response of the building, in order to enhance environmental performance through daylighting passive design.
Perforated Pavilion
In this grasshopper example file, you can model a parametric pavilion based on a curve and by changing the mesh pattern parameters you can generate different forms for the base surface. Script By: Mohammad Yazdi Download Example Related Plugins Weaverbird Mesh + Plugins Official Links Weaverbird Mesh +
Responsive facade
In this grasshopper example file You can design a Responsive facade With three methods Changing the angle, using point attractors or a curve attractor. Script By: Mohammad Yazdi Download Example
Wavy Pattern
In this grasshopper example file you can generate a 3D wave pattern on any untrimmed Nurbs surfaces. This surface can be a building facade or a closed periodic surface.
Dot Pattern
This video by Numberphile is about strange dot patterns. A dot pattern is a pattern made up of numerous dots or circles.
Responsive facade
In this grasshopper example file You can design a Responsive facade With three methods Changing the angle, using point attractors or a curve attractor.
King Fahad National Library
The King Fahad National Library sees Professor Eckhard Gerber and his Gerber Architekten team accomplishing one of the most important urban development and cultural projects in the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh.
The Canton Tower Building
The Canton Tower by Information Based Architecture, is Guangzhou’s most important new building and will represent the 10 million inhabitants counting metropolis as a cool, progressive and exciting city.
The Bird’s Nest Stadium
The Beijing National Stadium designed by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, located at the south of the centerpiece Olympic Green, is a stunning landmark building that staged the 2008 Olympic Games from 8 August to 24 August 2008.
Relaxing Roof
In this grasshopper example file you can use the Kangaroo plugin to model a parametric relaxing mesh as a freeform surface.
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport at Mumbai designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill that is simultaneously contemporary and rooted in the country’s traditional expressions.
Stereographic Projection
In this grasshopper example file you can create a stereographic projection by using 4 different approaches.Using an Image, UV mapping ,Mesh based and Curve based.
Flat sheets to curved geometries
Transforming flat sheets into three-dimensional structures has emerged as an exciting manufacturing paradigm on a broad range of length scales. Among other advantages, this technique permits the use of functionality-inducing planar processes on flat starting materials, which after shape-shifting, result in a unique combination of macro-scale geometry and surface topography.
Pillar of Dreams
New York design studio The Very Many has built a white orbed pavilion in Charlotte, North Carolina with bulbs shaded soft blue and pink inside.
Mesh Fusion
In this grasshopper example file, you can connect a series of mesh faces to model a bridge-like connection between two meshes.