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A couple of cool friends-architects-coders are organizing a workshop at Massana Arts School in Barcelona. The subject of the workshop is really attractive and the skills of the tutors is really

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Last week I’ve been talking, reading and studying about particles and complex system behaviour. There is a lot of literature and very good experiments around the topic in the web.

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The purpose of the present experiment consists in optimizing a building modifying its apertures (windows) and its geometry to reduce heating and air conditioning consumption. The optimization is performed using

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Usually architects spend a lot of hours trying fit rooms and corridors into the building boundaries. There are many strategies to deal with this problem, i. e. define the corridors

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A Genetic Algorithm must fulfill a series of spatial and volumetric constraints that oppose each other. The GA proposes ways based on restrictions. A binary list (i. e. 1010) represents

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A Genetic Algorithm to solve the problem Travelling Sales Problem (TSP) is adapted to find the shortest path from a list of buildings, offering volume and direction of the nearest

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Este post lleva varios meses en el ordenador y es tiempo de mostrarlo. El problema del viajante (TSP), es un problema de combinatoria que consiste encontrar la ruta más corta que

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Este es el segundo año que lanzamos Algomad. Consiste en un seminario de herramientas digitales para la arquitectura e ingeniería. el seminario incluye cursos básicos y avanzados de Grashopper y

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One of the last collaborations with IDOM-ACXT, consisted in designed a façade for the new headquarters in Madrid. For the project I developed a pattern generation in order to explore

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At the end of the year 2007, I won a research grant in I + D from Rafael Escolá Foundation. This prize gave me the chance to be involved in

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During 2008 I developed, with two amazing architects (Marina Diez and Fernando Rial) a pedestrian bridge contest for Gran Canaria island. The strategy used consisted in define a series of

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This model was prepared in almost 6 days using rhinoscript. For one side we made the ribs of the terrain, and for the other side we had to modelize the

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As I remember, for this contest we tried a surface subdivision based in vectors. The first try we use the vector lengths to define the spheres radius, then the spheres

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The barcelo contest, is a complex mix of sport, market and living.  We start working with substracting shapes from the maximum use allowed in the  lot and we continue with

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These are a couple of images from the Europan contest in 2007. Finally We never send the boards, so they are unfinished. This probably was my first scripting project working

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Estás imágenes corresponden al concurso para el edificio de lo Civil en la ciudad judicial en Madrid. Estuve encargado de la programación de la piel. Esta consistía en una doble

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Por estos días preparo mis vacaciones en Chile, tuve bastante botado el blog, pero eso no significa que no estuviese haciendo cosas. Los primeros meses del 2010 estuve escribiendo mi

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ALGOMAD -Algo más que un instrumento: introducción a Métodos generativos en Arquitectura y Diseño- es un seminario sobre el uso de herramientas digitales avanzadas, para generar formas con métodos paramétricos

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These days I have been updated my GC<->E+ connection. I fix some bugs to get more speed, and I get it. you will see in the video 10 different thermal

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My PhD. is about Evolutionary Estrategies. More Precisely in Genetic Algorithms (GAs). I understand the GAs like a complex machine of optimization that knows nothing about the problem which it

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Estás Imagenes corresponden al trabajo de los alumnos de primer año de arquitectura de la IE School of Architecture en la sede de Segovia. Students Works, First Year IE School

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Entrega final del proyecto: Los alumnos deberán presentar 8 laminas A2. La presentación será oral con un máximo de 15 minutos por grupo. Se deberá incluir análisis espacial, conceptos y

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In July 2009 two leading independent schools of architecture, the Architectural Association, London and the IE School of Architecture, Madrid/Segovia, will join forces to launch a new summer school in

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This is a small colaboration with Mary ann busby, from chile. the aim was generate surface from other surfaces, and create some kind movement. the code works under recursion: analizing,

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The last week I have been teaching at ETSAM in Madrid, doing a RhinoScript Workshop in GIGA  Departamento de Ideación Gráfica. Most of the Participants are professors of the university

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Smart Geometry 00:00 am SmartGeometry 01:00 am SmartGeometry 03:00 am SmartGeometry 04:00 am

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This was my first time in an SmartGeometry, and I was impressed the high level of the participants and tutors. Truss Optimization Trough Excel Mi proposal for the workshop (4

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Después de todos estos meses trabajando para el doctorado, las diferentes colaboraciones para ACXT, concursos con amigos (casi nunca puedo decir que no), la preparación de mis clases para la

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A couple of minutes took me switch the circles with spheres. This time when I saw the script few day after, I found a lot of bugs to slow down

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The first image has almost 10,000 iterations and the max radius was 500, the other ones are about 4,000 iterations and their radius about 50-100.

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I’ve been working yesterday in a Circle Packing, and I started with matsys pseudo-code.  I found a lot bugs, finally I decided to make a mixture between his algorithm and

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I was invited to paticipate in a contest to the Comune di Prato in Italy. I have to say thank you to this cool group of architects from Lisboa: Duarte

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For me sometimes it is more difficult speak or write about my work that write the code in the editor. This images represent my eagerness that I had to translate

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Images from recursion in 3D. These images represent the process of my recursion work that started few weeks ago, with the post recursion, I will continue working in this kind

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Here are the new configurations of the same base script that I posted few weeks ago, this time I create more points to get subdivisions, and also and hexagon ,

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En continuant à travailler sur le “script” original, j’ai calculé le barycentre, cette fois, pour créer un vecteur perpenducilaire au plan formé par les trois points de chaque nouveau triangle.

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I was Working couple weeks ago in a simple script to produce a recursion, I try drawing 3 points and then subdivided every segment for the mid point to find

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I participate like instructor, with Ernesto Bueno and the collaboration of Rita Mirele and Ruther Paullo in the RhinoScripting Workshop for the Magister Postgrau en Disseny, Entorn i Arquitectura, in Elisava.

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I Hate Voronoi Diagrams when I start working like architect-developer for Other People’s Rooms mi boss was completely crazy for Voronoi Diagrams, so I had to learn, how they diagrams

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Few weeks ago (19 – 20 – 21 March, 2008) I participate like instructor in the Workshop Digital Design Process, celebrated in Esap Oporto with Gonçalo Castro from X-Ref, Pedro

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Agata Kycia + Krysztof Gornicki + Vasco Portugal Rohan Khurana + Eugenio Adame Andrea Katsavra + Pete Booth Monika Szawiola + Krystian Kwiecinski + Michal Piasecki

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Maite Bravo + Jordi Roses Juergen Weiss Maria Papaloizou + Peerapong Suntinanond

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Ismini Koronidi + Georgios Macharias Francisca Aroso + Renu Gupta + Hemant Purohit Evangelia Vlachopoulou + Ramón Velázquez

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Verena Vogler + Eduardo Mayoral Alexander Harris Akriti Sood + Luis Odiaga + Higinio Llames

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Few Saturday’s ago (01/03/2008) was the final presentation of the Seminar Scripting at IaaC. I participate like instructor with Luis Fraguada from Lan Architects. During the Seminar the students were introduced in

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This is a simple example of the many applications offered by the iterative branching system developed so far. It’s a pergola supported by tree-like structures, created with the same system,

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Genr8 is a plug-in for maya and works generating surfaces. It is very interesting because fuse the universal growth conditions with evolutionary search. Genr8 it is developed via API of

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After experimenting with L-systems, the present study focuses on RhinoScript. Using the methodology of L-systems’ computation, I have developed scripts that build systems of branch bifurcation. This time, it addresses

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This is the last part of Honey_Comb Series, until now there are a lot of things to optimize in the script, I post this images because there are very suggestive.

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I was invited to participate in the number 15 of “Revista de Arquitectura” under the title “arquitectura como acción docente”, my text was take out from the X sigradi congress

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This is a study on re-writing systems (iterative and recursive) and its implementation in formal models of emerging structures, especially branching structures. The development of models of different iterative systems

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After long time trying to achieve another level of analysis, finally we start to do it with SAP. An engineering software that help us to see reactions, deformations, geometry, supports,

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Voici les résultats des “scripts” de cette semaine. Calculer la normale à chaque centres de la cellule fut un peu compliqué; pour l’instant les extrusions sont aléatoires. L’objectif est d’arriver

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Here more images for the Honey_Comb funcky results, the possibilities of the differens patterns. soon more

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Este es un ejemplo de simples patrones, independiente del tipo de curva y cantidad el script es capaz de adaptarse a cada una de las alternativas. La capacidad poder almacenar

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The year is starting ,and there are a lot of challenge to get this year, I won a Scholarchip to finish my phd, I’m doing a Seminar Scripting in IaaC

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Está vez use una estrategia diferente para crear las estructuras, a través de una curva “guía” desarrollé una serie de curvas perpendiculares a un punto especifico en la curva, el

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Estuve trabajando por un par de horas en un script que fuese capaz de estructurar un superficie “x”. Sin embargo no use el método “tradicional” (contour) para resolver este problema,

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Rethinking about the images (forms) we produce about organic growth structures, we found something interesting not only like image, because we did at first by script. But it was amazing

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Esto es lo que consegui al final del dia. En estás imagenes se muestra parte del proceso, con los errores incluídos. This i what i got at the end of

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Estuve trabajando en un algoritmo, que de cierta manera desarrollara un cuerpo central y unas ramificaciones. Una vez conseguido la base, comence a complejizarlo, en la manera de generar multiples

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The problem still be the relation with the environment… maybe it’s necesary change the strategy, and define a new algorithm. Still working…

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Sensitive wall. Searching some relation among structure and the width of the wall for one side, and the other, reactive to the environment. The fail is a simple ecuation to

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Finalmente hemos tenido los resultados para la construcción del proyecto, y no nos han aceptado adjuntamos el dossier completo del proyecto, probablemente terminemos construyéndolo nosotros como era la idea original.

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La estructura principal es descompuesta en una serie de “costillas” que a su vez están compuestas por una serie de “módulos” configurados por 16 barras de diferentes dimensiones, cada uno

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Las estructuras estereometricas son definidas como un elemento estructural tridimensional, reticulado y modular. Principalmente compuesto por triangulaciones mediante barras y sin apoyos intermedios. Son de rápida construcción, pueden salvar grandes

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Estos son los primeros resultados del script que construye el node_2, es algo complejo calcular planos perpendiculares a diferentes líneas que luego se intersecten entre sí, para formar un poliedro.

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El primer intento de resolver el nodo fue haciendo la substracción de cada una de las intersecciones que tuviesen los tubos. Luego desplegamos los moldes e imprimimos las matrices que

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El script construye superficies que se asemejan (si se hace el esfuerzo) a la topografía de la tierra, o al pliegue de las sabanas. Fue desarrollado para el poster del

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Etimológicamente, el termino vitruviano decoro, que a su vez deriva de la raíz verbal latina decet – del sanscrito diz – que tiene dos significados muy reveladores: El primero, esto

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Es común usar la programación como un “medio” para generar formas, analizar superficies complejas, etc. Este experimento (trabajo en progreso) comienza con el reciclaje de los tubos de cartón de

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Digital Design Processes Processos Digitais de Projecto Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Portugal 24 Setembro a 5 Outubro, 2007 Este es el Tercer Workshop en el cual participo y el

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La Biomimética. (Biomimicry) – ECHINOCACTUS GRUSONII (Del bios = vida, y mimesis = imitar) Es una nueva disciplina de diseño que estudia los mejores ejemplos de la naturaleza y luego

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Este script identifica una superficie cualquiera, donde imprime sobre ella una matriz de puntos con los que construye por cada 4 puntos una segunda superficie, una curva cerrada y una

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Este script reconoce la orientación de un recorrido dado, como podría ser el recorrido del sol: puntoCardinal1 = Rhino.GetPoint(“selecciona el primer punto cardinal”) If IsNull (puntoCardinal1) Then Exit Sub PuntoCardinal2

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Este es un simple Script (rhino script) que identifica dos círculos y los divide en x puntos, donde cada punto sale una curva que intersecta un tercer punto llamado “N”

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Las estructuras Tensegrity son estructuras mecánicas estables de 3dimnesiones, que mantienen su forma en un complejo balance de fuerzas entre elementos rígidos y cables. De este tipo de sistema emergen

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Este experimento está basado en la definición de 4 matrices equidistantes -cada matriz está configurada por 16 puntos- compuestas cada una por nueve módulos y esta a su vez por

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Experimento basado en la deformación y agrupación de material desechable Realizado por Carlos de la Barrera y Ruther Paullo. Barcelona, Enero 2007 Un sistema es un conjunto de procesos o

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Las formas que produce la evolución se basan en sistemas auto-organizados que emergen de la interacción de la genética, el ambiente y la selección natural. Utilizando algoritmos computacionales basados en

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El Grupo de Diseño Emergente Sudamericano, te invita a colaborar con su blog  designemergente.org. La intención es agrupar a diseñadores, arquitectos y artistas sudamericanos que investiguen o trabajen sobre Estrategias

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