Design tools and software
Bamboo model making
Bamboo model making allows the design to be informed by the material characteristics of the bamboo. The physical bamboo scale model will be used to inform the digital model and full-scale construction.
Full scale construction
Throughout the workshop there will be opportunities to engage in full-scale construction with full-culm bamboo to inform the design process and inform our algorithms.
Rhino 3D
Rhinoceros 3D is a three-dimensional computer graphics and computer-aided design software which uses Non-uniform rational basis splines (NURBS), to build geometry as opposed to a polygon mesh-based system. We will use this as our primary 3D modelling platform.
Grasshopper
Grasshopper is a visual programming environment which runs within the Rhinoceros 3D platform.
Kangaroo
Kangaroo is a Live Physics engine for interactive simulation, form-finding, optimization and constraint solving.
Ladybug
Ladybug allows you to import and analyse standard weather data in Grasshopper; draw diagrams like Sun-path, wind-rose, radiation-rose, etc; customize the diagrams in several ways; run radiation analysis, shadow studies, and view analysis.
