• SG 2010 Barcelona - Conference Videos Online

    Submitted by Shane Burger on Sun, 06/13/2010 - 21:53

    The proceedings of the 2-day SmartGeometry Conference in Barcelona have been posted online:

    Click here to view the videos

    Many thanks to Bentley for sponsoring the event and hosting the videos!

  • SmartGeometry 2010 Workshops Slideshow

    Submitted by Shane Burger on Tue, 03/23/2010 - 11:17
    A small collection of images - many more to follow...

  • Use Twitter to influence Form at SG2010 right now!

    Submitted by Shane Burger on Mon, 03/22/2010 - 11:50

    Hello SmartGeometry workshop participants:

    We would like to introduce Tweet-Form to you…

    Tweet-Form is a mass-collaborative form-finding experiment and we want your input! The Parametrics and physical interactions cluster has designed a parametric model that you can access with Twitter.

    It’s easy! Simply send tweets to PPIWorkshop and include any of the following keywords: lighter, heavier, taller, shorter, wider, thinner, rounder, squarer, smoother, boxier, twist, straighten. Please take care as Tweet-Form is CASE SENSITIVE!

    Example: PPIWorkshop smoother wider taller

    Setting up a twitter account is easy and only takes a second. Just go to twitter.com and click Sign UP Now.

    Tweet-Form starts with a cube. Anyone in the world can access and change the form. Check in often to see what the form looks like. At these SmartGeometry workshops you can view the model of the large screen in the lecture space.

    Iterations of the forms that are generated will be 3D printed.

    James Willems Ransom
    Candidate, Master's in Architecture
    School of Architecture
    University at Buffalo

  • SG2010: Day One

    Submitted by Shane Burger on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 13:44
    The SmartGeometry 2010 Workshops at IaaC in Barcelona have begun!

    Participants have just started developing their prototypes digitally, with some of the clusters rapidly moving into fabrication tests. The general sound level has been high with design conversations and noises coming from fabric cutters, robots, CNC machines, and laser cutters.

    The Nonlinear Systems Biology and Design cluster completed its first batch of 3D prints (100's of nodes in a variety of shapes) and discussed the scale and location of their installation at IaaC. Manufacturing Parametric Acoustic Surfaces finished assembling their curving wall which will be used as a framework for the acoustic panels under development these next three days. Curved Folding spent the day on form and surface discovery with paper prototypes; these will be scanned, converted to digital models, and then back to sheet metal surfaces. Explicit Bricks fired up the robot for the first foam block studies, completing a number of initial prototypes.

    Click here for more information on the Clusters

    Fabrication equipment was running till 10:30pm - up until the additional generators had to be shut off - but work continued late into the evening.

    Click here to find out more about the Workshops and 2-day Conference

    Slideshow of Day One

    Kuka robot in action



    Registration is still open for the 2 Day conference following the Workshop.

    Click here to Register for the 2-Day Conference (Shop Talk and Symposium)
    Discounts are available for Academics and Students by contacting Bentley at this link.

    SHOP TALK

    23 March 2010

    One day of informal discussions between leading practitioners and emerging talent in digital design, offering an inside perspective on how design prototypes are conceived, created, and tested. Shop Talk explores how the state of the art is forged in the studio.

    Shop Talk discussions will be moderated by:
    Eric Ellingsen Institut für Raumexperimente, Brady Peters CITA, Xavier de Kestelier Foster+Partners/Syracuse University, Joy Ko RISD/Brown, Jeroen Coenders Arup/TU Delft, Rob Woodbury Simon Fraser University, Axel Kilian Princeton University, Makai Smith Bentley Systems, Jenny Sabin/ Peter Lloyd Jones LabStudio/University of Pennsylvania.
    IAAC

    more...


    SYMPOSIUM

    24 March

    Conference on Fabrication and Digital Manufacturing

    Mark Burry RMIT
    Enrico Dini Monolite D-Shape
    Darren Davies Formula 1 car designers, Wirth Research
    Rupert Soar Freeform Engineering Ltd.
    Hanif Kara AKT
    Adrian Bowyer University of Bath
    Marta Malé-Alemany IaaC, AA
    Jeroen Coenders Arup
    Lars Hesselgren PLP Architecture

    Reports and featured work from SG2010 Workshop Working Prototypes
    Symposium

    more...


    EXHIBITION

    Design Museum Barcelona (DHUB) will be exhibiting the prototypes produced during the SG2010 workshop ‘Working prototypes’ in May 2010. This will be part of a larger exhibition focused on fabrication and digital manufacturing curated by Marta Male-Alemany.
    DHUB

    more...


  • Tours of Sagrada Familia announced...

    Submitted by Shane Burger on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 12:25

    We are very pleased to announce exclusive tours of Gaudi's masterpiece, Temple Expiatori Sagrada Familia, with Mark Burry, Executive Architect and Researcher. Three tour times are available the day after the Symposium on 25th March 2010.

    For more information and registration, check http://www.smartgeometry.org/content/sg-2010-barcelona

  • SG2010 Workshop Application phase now closed

    Submitted by Shane Burger on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 11:18

    The application process for the SmartGeometry 2010 Barcelona Workshops is now closed. All those who applied will be notified in phases over the next week as to their acceptance and scholarship opportunities.

    Stay tuned for more announcements regarding the 2 day Conference...

  • SmartGeometry 2010: Conference Registration is NOW OPEN

    Submitted by Shane Burger on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 12:36

    Registration for the SmartGeometry 2010 Conference is now open.

    Click here to find out more information about the 2 day Conference

    Click here to Register for the Conference

  • SG2010 Workshop Applications NOW OPEN!

    Submitted by Shane Burger on Tue, 12/08/2009 - 01:35

    The SmartGeometry Group
    is pleased to announce that Workshop Applications to the
    SmartGeometry 2010 Workshop and Conference in Barcelona
    are now open.

    The annual Workshop and Conference will take place in Barcelona 19th – 24th March 2010. The event will be the key event in the year for discussing, learning and networking about the emerging practice of digital parametrics within the AEC community.

    The event will come in three parts, a Workshop (19th-22th March), a public Shop Talk (23rd March), and a public Symposium and Reception (24th March). These events follow the highly successful previous SG events in San Francisco 2009, Munich 2008, New York 2007, Cambridge/London, UK 2006 and multiple preceding events.

    Click here to find out more information

  • Open Platform Day 2 - Evening Presentations

    Submitted by adamgdavis on Sun, 11/29/2009 - 08:09
    The second evening of presentations for the Open Platform event might have been subtitled "designing with constraints". Quite by chance, all of the presenters focused on the issue of constraints in parametric and computational design, each from a very different perspective.

  • Open Platform Day 2

    Submitted by adamgdavis on Sat, 11/28/2009 - 11:40
    Participants in the trainings and workshop have been getting increasingly sophisticated in their studies. In the Grasshopper training students explored creating a repeating knot pattern on a freeform surface, as shown here in work by Giulio Castorina.
    The Open Workshop has students working on varied problems. Peter Liebsch has been working on scripting random traversal of a surface by line segments, and has focused during day 2 on collision detection.
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