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Conferencia ITESM ,Qro

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:55:00 +0000

El proximo lunes 1 de Noviembre estaré junto con mis compañeros del colectivo Chido Studio dentro del Ciclo de conferencias de la SAARQ del Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey campus Queretaro , impartiendo una platica con la tematica de el Diseño Parametrico y su aplicación en proyectos arquitectonicos , donde explicaremos un poco de la teoría y conceptos basicos de estas metodologias para todas aquellas personas interesadas en incursionar en este ambito.

Si tienes posibilidades de asistir ahi te esperamos.

Populating components Diagrid Box [Grasshopper]

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Wed, 19 May 2010 05:47:00 +0000

Many of us have probably used the popular method of proliferating a component over surface using the box surface and box morphing components which actually is very useful , however it has the limitation that you can only arrange your components in a quadrangular grid and there maybe sometimes we need a different arrange or sequence for populating our surfaces, last weekend I was talking about this with Marysol Kraviez a student of the DIA Master at Dessau of and she send me a discussion from the Grasshopper page of people addressing this problem, I found very good and interesting approaches and I decided to make a small contribution by making a definition based on one that I saw over there for creating box surfaces in a diagrid arrange using a VB script I have used for other works, hope you find it useful.

As always you can find more about this project and the definition for download at my SITE

Rhino Grasshopper Workshop [MEXICO]

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:54:00 +0000

Workshop Rhino / Grasshopper

Curso destinado principalmente a Arquitectos y Diseñadores interesados en el aprendizaje del diseño parametrico y la creación de algoritmos generativos para su implementacion en distintos processos de diseño ,s e explicaran los conceptos teoricos para abordar proyectos de diseño a través de algoritmos mediante programación. Se utilizara el entorno de Grasshopper y Rhinoscript como herramientas para desarollar los ejercicios . No es necesario conocimiento previo de Rhinoceros ni de programación.

Fecha y Lugar
Mayo 28, 29 ,20 y Junio 4,5,6
Instalaciónes Plataforma de Arquitectura (151-SA)

Cupo maximo
15 plazas

Costo
Estudiantes : $ 2,500.ºº
Profesionistas: $ 3,000.ºº

Importante
*Los participantes deberan traer su propia laptop con todo el software y actualizaciones (originales o verisones de demostración oficiales) previamente instaladas.(se fijara una fecha unos días antes para revisar que todos los equipos esten en orden y listos para trabajar)

PARA MAS INFORMACION DE ESTE EVENTO VISITA ESTE ENLACE

Glassware design with Grasshopper

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Tue, 11 May 2010 04:55:00 +0000

During the weekend I worked on a consultancy project for the industrial designer Lina Fuentes who designed some glassware pieces which had some vintage diamond patterns on it , modeling this patterns by traditional techniques can be a little bit difficult and tedious, also the control you may have over the elements cannot be so accurate , to solve this I was asked to generate a small algorithm in grasshopper that allows the creation of these patterns in a more efficient way, for example to have control over the number of elements in each direction of the surface and the height of each component.

More infomation about this project and download the definition HERE

Arduino + Grasshopper & Firefly experiment

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:01:00 +0000

Some weeks ago Andy Payne from Lift Architects announced the release of his first version plugin Firefly which is a specialized set of tools dedicated to bridging the gap between the Arduino interface and Grasshopper , currently the plugin has two components one for receiving data coming from sensors and the other to send parametric data from grasshopper to some sort of actuator via Arduino.

I think Firefly is a great tool for prototyping projects that involve sensors and actuators , because before you actually build it, with this tool you can first model a digital muck up to see how your project elements will behave with real sensor data, so then you can port that same logic to build your real project.

HERE is an experiment I made sending data from a photoresistor to Grasshopper to create a Responsive Structure that reacts to the degree of light of a physical space in real time.

Workshop Advanced Modelling Experience

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:58:00 +0000

Last Month we had the Advanced Modelling Workshop at Queretaro city , together with Luis de la Parra and Daniel Camiro we started an initiative called Chido Studio with the purpose of organizing a series of Workshops in that city regarding parametric design strategies & digital fabrication for implementing them in different design processes . The workshop lasted 2 weekends and was divided in three main areas.
1)Traditional Modelling with Rhino
2)Rendering techniques for VRay on 3dMax
3) Parametric design using Grasshopper as our tool for editing algorithms.

I would like to congratulate all the participants for the results obtained during the Workshop , most of them had no prior experience with the softwares and yet the learning speed of the course was really impressive.At the end , participants ended with the basic tools and knowledge to start developing their own algorithms in order to approach their design problems in parametric and generative way.

Responsive Honeycomb Morphologies [Gh3D]

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:05:00 +0000

Continuing with the experimentation and research of honeycomb morphologies and a as example for a Workshop I gave recently I developed a Grasshopper tool for creating a responsive skin system ,using my previous VB script component for creating honeycomb patterns.

For more information and definition downlad click HERE

Advanced Modelling Workshop [queretaro,Mexico]

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:15:00 +0000

Invito a todos los arquitectos, diseñadores y estudiantes de Mexico a que asistan al Workshop sobre estrategias avanzadas de modelación que estare impartiendo en colaboración con Plataforma de Arquietctura y ChidoStudio en la ciudad de Queretaro durante las primeras semanas de Marzo.

Para mas información sobre este evento vista este ENLACE , donde encontraras un formulario paa poder ponerte en contacto con nosotros, esperamos contar con tu participación.

Pneumatic Panel Revised [rhinoscript]

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:04:00 +0000

Some new updates on the Pneumatic Panels Project , Toni Österlund an architecture student at University of Oulu (Finland) ,revised my code and made some improvements,the script now supports non planar polygons for creating the cushion cladding system. More info and downlads HERE

Parametric Tower Excersie [grasshopper]

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:01:00 +0000

An excerise of a parametric tower definition made in Rhino Grasshopper , using the Canton Tower from IBA architects as a rference , more information on these project and download the definition at my web site.

Honeycomb Morphologies Update

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:24:00 +0000

The lastest update from my honeycomb morphologies research is already at the official site , you can go there to to check it out and download the definition.

Recursive Aggregations [rhinoscript]

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:29:00 +0000

Here is my last weekend experiment with rhinoscript , working with recursive agreggations , you can check out the project HERE

2010 is here !!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:16:00 +0000

Thanks everyone for being with me this 2009 , I wish you an exciting 2010 !!!
Do you have any new years resolutions ? Here are mine.

Honeycomb Morphologies

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:47:00 +0000

A little preview of a Grasshopper definition I´m working on to generate a honeycomb structure system Im working to add several features , for example to be able to control the apertures of the systems according an external variable for example al the final work as well as the definition will be posted on my new site.

Grasshopper VBscript (excersise)

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:28:00 +0000

Getting started with VBscripting in Grasshopper , some images of an excercise made using Woo Jaes Sung tutorial you can see more about this and downlad the definition on my new site. HERE

Waffle Ribs:Rhino Grasshopper

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:06:00 +0000

Yes ! the classic waffle structures , I think this kind of definitions are very useful specially to those starting in their way of parametric design and of course Grasshopper, they have a wide range of applications that can go from architectural projects to conceptual furniture like this quick example I made. Check it out here.

Recursive tessellation

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:10:00 +0000

A quick study of Marco Vanuci´s work on recursive surface tessellations . CHECK IT OUT

Rhinoscript Pneumatic Caldding

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:21:00 +0000

Finally I have uploaded my research for generationg cushion like pneumatic panels you can see the info and download the script at my new site don´t forget to share it and leave your comments =).

Collaboration with Arkylab Mexico

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:31:00 +0000

Currently I am collaborating with Arkylab a Mexican architecture studio working on a proposal for an industrial eco park Im helping generating computational geometies for the project using recusive and subdivision algorithms we still at a conceptual development stage.
Here is a quick low quality render.

Pneumatic Panels Cladding Systems

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:50:00 +0000

Preview image of my rhinoscript of pneumatic cladding systems still some things an options to tweak but so far it´s looking good i hope to have it ready soon to start sharing, i will be posting a complete explanation of it on my new site so stay tuned !!!

Parametric Truss System

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:42:00 +0000

Hello guys this is a parametric truss exercise I made to see more about it please visit my new site here if you are interested in the definition please don´t forget to leave comments , friend me up and join the community thanks !!!

Finally the new designplaygrounds is here !!

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:22:00 +0000

Finally after many months of waiting I fianlly got the time to make an official website even do making this blog for the past year has been a great experience I thin its time to present my work in a more professional way, also I made the site to stay in touch with all the people who kindly visit my work I really worked hard implementing tools from different social media like : Twitter , Facebook, Didd , Stumble Upon etc.. all of the just to hear and share what you have to say.

Im also going to feature the work from other people so if you are making some interesting stuff please send it to me so i can show your work, Im working in some tutorials people keep asking me most of them regarding grashopper i think the new site will be an excellent plataform to distribute them.

In few words please visit my new site were you will soon find new works and more interesting content from other people www.designplaygrounds.com and don´t forget to friend me up on Twitter or Facebook. =)

Studio Banana collaboration

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:14:00 +0000

Last weekend I went to Madrid to visit the guys of Studio Banana and to give an introduction class of Parametric Design using Grasshoper for the students who attended the Rhinoceros Workshop of the studio, I had a great time visiting the studio and the people who works there.And I had the opportuniy to teach the studnets about the benefits of implementig parametric systems into their designs.

Processing Warm Up

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:21:00 +0000

After several weeks i finally was able to find some time this weekend to play again with processing
scince I got here to barcelona I have been very busy finding a place to live ,giving a lecture and organizing a workshop among other things.
This is a quick sketch I made for practice purposses here are some images generated by tweaking some of the parameters I wanted to post a video to show how its generated but currently at home I just have a very old pc and I cant record video I will use this skecth for a more complex application using traer physics library also I would like to implement some functionality with audio I hope to find some space the to work on this on the next days.

Parametric Design Workshop at Barcelona

noreply@blogger.com (Rodrigo Medina) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:31:00 +0000

I would like to invite all students of architecture and industrial design who live at Barcelona to attend our Workshop of parametric design oriented to sustainable projects , we will be teaching Rhino , rhinoscripts and Grasshopper as our tools for parametric and generative design. For more information please visit www.seed.cat . There are few places so hurry up!!

Saludos me gustaria invitar a todos los estudiantes de arquitectura y diseño industrial que vivan en Barcelona a nuestro Workshop de diseño parametrico orientado a proyectos sostenibles donde enseñaremos Rhino , rhinoscript y Grasshopper como herramientas para el diseño parametrico y generativo para mas información visiten www.seed.cat . Tenemos pocos lugares asi que dense prisa !!

Tambien pueden contactarme a mi mail: rodrigo_medina23@hotmail.com