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Shape to Fabrication 2 - Rhino for Architecture

Date Thursday, 25th October 2007

Time 9.00am to 5.30pm

Cost £50+VAT per attendee

Enquiries & Bookings:e-mail fionuala@simplyrhino.co.ukor call 0208 498 9900

Venue Southside RoomStapleton HouseLondon Metropolitan University277-281 Holloway RdLondon N7 8HNUnited Kingdom

see map below

Following on from the popular Shape to Fabrication Event held in November 2006, Simply Rhino Ltd (in association with Metropolitan Works) are proud to announce a larger event for 2007.

Whereas last year’s event majored on the new technologies in the then upcoming Rhino v4, this year we will be placing a larger emphasis on in depth customer stories. To this end, some of the world’s leading architectural and engineering professionals are presenting on how Rhino is becoming an increasingly important tool in their industries.

There will, of course, be some presentations dedicated to new technology and we are delighted to announce that Bob McNeel, CEO of Robert McNeel & Associates - the authors of Rhino, will be both presenting and available for discussion at this year’s event.

Organisers Simply Rhino Ltd are the UK supplier for Rhino and all Rhino related products and services. www.simplyrhino.co.uk

Metropolitan Works, part of London Metropolitan University, is a ununique centre that supports London’s creative industries and related manufacturing. www.metropolitanworks.org

Please note that by attending this event you agree to be filmed. Film Footage will be used by Simply Rhino Ltd and Metropolitan Works for marketing purposes and featured on their respective web-sites.

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Agenda

9.00am to 9.30am - Registration and Coffee

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

9.30am to 9.45am - Welcome & Rhino in Architecture

Paul 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 and the new 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.

9.45am to 10.00am - Inside McNeel

Bob McNeel - McNeel US

Bob will outline the business strategy and background of Robert McNeel & Associates and will outline the product development process at the company. There will be an overview of RhinoLabs (future functionality of Rhino) and a look at Rhino for Mac OSX.

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10.00am to 10.30am - Shaping Stadia - An insight to the advance of HOK’s sport stadium design

David Hines - HOK SportPaul Shepherd - Bath University

An introduction to the company wide use of Rhino throughout the HOK offices. The presentation will conclude with a case study on the use of Rhino and other parametric software in the development of a cladding and structural form for the new Lansdowne Road Stadium in Dublin. A complete overview from initial concept design, structural analysis through to the production of construction information.

www.hoksport.com

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10.30am to 11.00am - Geometry, Form and Optimisation

Dr Shrikant Sharma - Buro Happold SMART Group

Presentation showcasing the work by Buro Happold’s SMART (Software Modelling Analysis Research and Technologies) team’s work and tools developed for advanced modelling and simulation work. The presentation will illustrate, through live examples, how Rhino has been used in taking some of the most complex ideas in architecture through the geometric modelling, engineering analysis and fabrication stages.

Projects showcased will include:

Sidra Trees - A 250m long, 20m high steel ‘tree’ with complex double curvature trunk optimised for geometric form, structural performance and fabrication.

Hydro Pavilion. A giant exhibition space with complex form rationalised within architectural constraints.

Grid Optimisation. A research project together with the university of Cambridge.

11.00am to 11.15am - Break for Refreshments

11.15am to 11.30am - Next Generation Rendering

Andy LeBihan - McNeel US

Rendering in Rhino with news on Brazil, the high quality renderer currently under development by McNeel.

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11.30pm to 12.00pm - Haymarket Hub, Newcastle upon Tyne

Jonathan Bone & Luca Biselli - Reid Jubb Brown Partnership

Rhino’s initial use in evaluating the impact of the scheme on the city and subsequent use in automatic and intelligent sectioning using the ArchCut plug-in.

12.00pm to 12.15pm - Parametric Relationships in Rhino

David Rutten - McNeel US

• Explicit History plug-in (the Worm) allows parametric relationships in Rhino (WIP).• RhinoScript examples.• Monkey Editor.

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12.15pm to 12.30pm - Parametrics & Rhino with ParaCloud

Dr Eyal Nir - ParaCloud

ParaCloud is a low-cost software solution converting your Excel spreadsheet into a powerful parametric modeller that drives CAD tools. ParaCloud powers Rhino with generative design capabilities and provides parametric control to accurately and intuitively edit your design for fabrication, construction and performance studies.

ParaCloud powers Rhino with:

• Parametric Behaviour Modelling• Surfaces and Ribs unfolding• Parametric Shells and Ribs structures• Parametric Components Population• Rhino Blocks Generative Population• Simplified Numeric Control over Spatial Geometry

12.30pm to 1.30pm - Break for Lunch

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1.30pm to 2.00pm - Spacestation & Taichung Opera House

Tristan Simmonds & Florian Gauss - Arup AGU

Tristan Simmonds - Spacestation. The Spacestation sculpture was designed and built for Antony Gormley’s recent show at the Hayward Gallery, London. It is a 22 tonne foetal figure made of 356 steel boxes connected like a Chinese Puzzle with 445 bolted connections. The entire process of sculpting, engineering design, fabrication and construction sequencing was carried out digitally (with no drawings) primarily using a bespoke plug-in for Rhino.

Spacestation © Antony Gormley Studio

Florian Gauss - Taichung Opera House. Toyo Ito’s winning competition proposal for the Taichung Metropolitan Opera House comprises of exciting challenges regarding the complexity of the geometry and it’s structural analysis. To realise the ambitious design the AGU developed a series of specific geometry and structural model generating tools.

Taichung Opera House - Rapid Prototype

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2.00pm to 2.15pm - Metropolitan Works

Jodie Eastwood - Metropolitan Works

Overview of the latest digital manufacturing technologies now available at Metropolitan Works. Facilities include rapid prototyping, laser cutting, 3D scanning, CNC routing and digital printing. These facilities are available as bureau services with charges based on production time.

2.15pm to 2.30pm - VisualARQ - Rhino for Architects

Carlos Perez - McNeel EuropeCristina Gomez - Asuni CAD

Parametric and Associative Architectural plug-in - key functionality includes:

• Documentation Tables, linked and automatically updated from Rhino• Parametric and Associative architectural objects• Section and Elevation generation plus Auto Update• Architectural Library• Automatic Dimensioning

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2.30pm to 3.00pm - Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion

Jens Borstelmann & Thomas Vietzke - Zaha Hadid Architects

The Mobile Art Pavilion for Chanel by Zaha Hadid Architects has beeninspired by one of Chanel's signature creations, the quilted bag. Chanel is renowned for its layering of the finest textiles and exquisite detailing to create the most elegant and cohesive pieces for each collection, whilst Hadid's own work over the past 30 years has developed through translating the warped and anti-gravitational space of Russian avant-garde painting and sculpture into an architectural language of detailed layering and porosity, using materials of the highest quality.

Zaha Hadid Architects recent explorations of natural forms and systems have allowed the total fluidity evident in the pavilion for Chanel. The Mobile Art Pavilion's organic forms evident in spiralling shells. This system of organisation and growth is among the most frequent in nature and offers an appropriate expansion towards its circumference, giving generous public areas at the entrance of the pavilion to interact with the local site conditions in each city on a the 128sq m terrace.

A parametric distortion of a torus, which in its pure geometric shape is the basic diagram of an exhibition space, creates a constant variety of interior exhibition spaces. This form also spirals towards a central zone in a succession of reducing arching segments. As the Mobile Art pavilion must travel over three continents, this segmentation also gives an appropriate system of partitioning - allowing the pavilion to be easily transported in separate, manageable elements. The partitioning becomes a strong formal feature of the exterior facade cladding.

3.00pm - 3.30pm - Break for Refreshments

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3.30pm to 3.45pm -V-Ray for Rhino

Damien Alomar - ASGvis

V-Ray for Rhino is a rendering plug-in that enables Rhino users in all fields from engineering and architecture to design and animation to take advantage of the established V-Ray rendering solution.

V-Ray offers visualisation professionals a state of the art solution that generates high quality images of unparalleled realism. Now with V-Ray for Rhino 4.0, rendering options are easier with default render settings reflecting correct settings for indirect illumination, V-Ray Sun, V-Ray Sky and sampling levels. For larger projects, V-Ray supports distributed rendering allowing a single image to be processed over up to 10 machines.

3.45pm to 4.00pm - CivilWorks for Rhino

Claude Vuattoux - CivilWorks

CivilWorks is a new topographic plug-in for Rhino 4.0. Fully integrated inside Rhino, CivilWorks is a powerful terrain modeller with the following features:

• High performance incremental constrained Delaunay triangulation , that can process several million points with ease.•

• Uses Rhino entity point, point cloud, nurbs curve, polyline, mesh as input.• Automatic Boundary Alpha shape detection for natural shape looking.• High precision contour lines with smoothness adjustment.• Soft and Hard breaklines to model geographical features with ease & accuracy.• 3D Topology for automatic inclusion of geographical features

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4.00pm to 4.30pm - Building Envelopes: Design & Analysis using Digital Computing

Juan Subercaseaux & Stylianos Dritsas - Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

The domain of building envelope design has been significantly changed by the introduction of Computer Aided Design tools supporting/fostering free-form surfacing. The challenges within this context span from the initial stages of design all the way to their detailing and construction. The potential and difficulties involved are illustrated by a series of case studies developed by KPF. Specifically, the presentation will iterate through a series of novel solutions, based on computational geometry, developed for creatively exploring design possibilities while maintaining proximity to the pragmatic requirements of various buildings.

4.30pm to 4.45pm - Digital Design Theory and Methodology

Rivka Oxman - Professor of Digital Architectural DesignSchool of the Built Environment, Salford University

Digital design and its growing impact on design and production practices has resulted in the need for a re-examination of current design theories and methodologies in order to explain and guide future practice,research and development in design and fabrication. The lecture presents a theoretical basis of digital architectural design; reviews the recent theoretical and historical background; and presents a conceptual framework in order to define the paradigmatic classes of digital.

4.45pm to 5.15pm - Sawako & Panagiotis at AKT

Sawako Kaijima & Panagiotis Michalatos - Adams Kara Taylor

Sawako and Panagiotis are currently working as computational design researchers at Adams Kara Taylor. They have worked on projects by well known architectural practices in the United Kingdom including Zaha Hadid Architects, Future Systems and Foreign Office Architects in the development of architectural design involving complex geometry's. Their research projects have been exhibited in ‘Love and Money, The Best British Design Now’ organised by the British Council, ‘Sculpted by Purpose’ exhibition at FUEL Collection, Philadelphia US, and has been presented at a number of international conferences such as ‘Free-Form Colloquium’ at Delft University, eCAADe, ACADIA and IASS. Our research aims in developing design solutions that respect criteria of structural efficiency and architectural intentions by interrogating the intrinsic properties of forms and their embedding space.

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5.15pm - Q&A to all Speakers