Rhino in Architecture
A place to learn how to use Rhino in the building industry…
What’s here?
There are many ways to use Rhino in Architecture. This is a set of guides that may help:
- Using Rhino in Architecture
- Rhino to BIM and Back
- Rendering Architecture in Rhino
- Grasshopper
- Enhancing cross-platform BIM workflows with Rhino & Grasshopper
- Rhino Beginner Course for Architects by PH Studio
Using Rhino in Architecture
- What is the typical workflow that people use Rhino?
- Why do people use Rhino in AEC?
- What are some typical projects done in Rhino?
- Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum
- Data Driven Design Tamed a case study - HDR partnered with Proving Ground to develop new design tools for Rhino which integrates external data and computational processes. The Data Wrangler enables designers to freely create and analyze architecture using data-driven methods and evaluate the impact of design ideas. Read HDR’s blog to hear about how they are using the Data Wrangler with Rhino in their design process!
Learning Rhino in Architecture
Rhino to BIM and Back
The architecture process involves many tools and different teams, therefore interop with other BIM products is quite important.
- Rhino to Revit
- Cloud based connections:
Structural Engineering with Rhino
Interoperability with Structural software
Quick analysis with Rhino
- Karamba
- Kangaroo
- Kiwi3D - Isogeometric analysis is a recently developed computational approach that offers the possibility of integrating finite element analysis (FEA) into conventional NURBS-based CAD design tools.
- RhinoVault
- FREEFORM GEOMETRIES IN WOOD CONSTRUCTION
- FREEFORM RECIPROCAL FRAME SYSTEM
Optimization
- Computational Design Optimization of Building Structures grasshopper plugin. Very interesting add-on free topological optimization.
- Lattice structural optimization
- Architectural Optimization and Evolutionary Systems with Genetic Algorithms
- OPTIMIZED QUAD GRIDSHELL FROM STRESS FIELD AND CURVATURE FIELD
Machine Learning
- Machine Learning with LunchBoxML
- Owl Machine Learning in Rhino
- Dodo - Dodo is a collection of tools for machine learning, optimization, and geometry manipulation. Regarding AI, it features neural networks, gradient descent, stochastic gradient descent and swarm optimization. Dodo has tools for scalar, vector and tensor fields manipulation which can be visualized using isosurfaces. Some components are implementations of papers, you can find more info and reference in their html description.
- MACHINE LEARNING AND OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR STEEL CONNECTIONS
Computational Design
Rhino and especially Grasshopper have lead in the revolution of computational design in Architecture and fabrication.
- Havard GSD Introduction to Computational Design Course
- Texas A&M Course ARCH 655 Parametric Modeling in Design
Learning Grasshopper
It is important to learn Grasshopper.
Tutorials:
- Intro to Grasshopper with David Rutten.
- Learning Grasshopepr from Andrew Huemann
- Learning Grasshopper for Architectural students - Parametric House.
- Grasshopper Quick Start Guide from howtorhino.com
- (Paid) Visual Programming in Rhino3D with Grasshopper By Luis Fraguada
Using Rhino for Topography
Rhino can be used to create topographic maps. The difficult part of the process is understanding the information you have to start and how to massage that information to get to a Topo.
- Getting topo from Google Earth
- Creating a topo from Points
- Creating a topo from Curves
- Creating a topo From Survey information.
- Creating a topo from a mesh.
Analysis with Rhino
Environmental Analysis
Daylight:
- Difference between Luminance and Illuminance
- Introduction to Daylight Analysis
- Software and plugins used for Daylight Analysis
Tutorials:
Links to Daylight Plugins for Rhino and Grasshopper:
- Ladybug Tools - Daylighting, Environmental Analysis.
- Photosphere (MAC) and HDRscope (WIN) for Computational photography and lighting analysis
Wind and CFD
- Simerics CFD
- Butterfly - CFD analysis using OpenFOAM
Pedestrian Studies Grasshopper
Rhino and Urban Planning
- Urban Terrains Digital Lab Tutorials
- Codify: Parametric and Computational Design in Landscape Architecture by Bradley Cantrell et al. Link:
Architectural Visualization
Creating Architectural Style Drawings
- BIG inspired axonometric diagrams - (Bjarke Ingels Group)
- Tips and tricks with Adobe Illustrator for Architectural Styled drawings
- Rhino to Illustrator Tutorial
Sections and Drawings with Rhino
Using Rhino with VR
- IrisVr
- Enscape
- Modelo
- RMIT Hololens with Rhino direct
Rendering
- Rendering Architecture in Rhino
- Materials in Rhino
- Material Libraries
- Entourage model files
- GradCad
- Design Connected
- 3D People
- Hdri Skies : Poly Haven, VisPeople
- Lighting Models: Rendl light studio
Fabrication
- Nesting
- Unrolling
- Topography models
- Paneling
- Preparing for 3D printing
- More about 3D Printing..
Additional Architectural Training Materials
- Nick Senske Computational Design Courses YouTube
- Paramarch Rhino and Grasshopper Architecture Courses
- Jose Sanchez would like to share a series of online videos on Rhino modeling in architecture: Modeling the LF-ONE by Zaha Hadid
Books on Architecture and Fabrication
Toward a new Practice
- Digital Workflows in Architecture Design-Assembly-Industry, by Scott Marble
- SHoP: Out of Practice - An insider’s look into one of contemporary architecture’s most cutting-edge firms.
- Yes Is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution - A manifesto of architecture as seen by the Copenhagen-based group BIG, told in comic book form
- Architectural Transformations Via Bim A+u Special Issue (English and Japanese Edition)
- Informal by Cecil Balmond. Balmond is making the transition from structural engineer working alongside other architects to an architect in his own right.
- Eric Owen Moss: The New City: I’ll See It When I Believe It by Eric Owen Moss (Author), Frank Gehry (Contributor), Jeff Kipnis (Contributor).
- Public Natures: Evolutionary Infrastructures by Marion Weiss et al. explores the potential to shape a new public realm.
- Morphosis Covering nearly a decade of visionary research and design.
- A wide variety of posts on current issues in the new architecture by the institute of digital design Australia.
- BIG, HOT TO COLD: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation
Digital Fabrication
- Digital Fabrication in Architecture by Nick Dunn
- Data-Driven Design and Construction: 25 Strategies for Capturing, Analyzing and Applying Building Data by Randy Deutsch
- Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques (Architecture Briefs) by Lisa Iwamoto
- Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication 2nd Edition by Christopher Beorkrem
- Advancing Wood Architecture: A Computational Approach 1st Edition by Achim Menges et al.
Theory behind design and algorithms
- Kostas Terzidis library of books is one of the major architects working on that subject.
- Algorithms for Visual Design using the processing language
- Algorythmic Architecture
- Expressive Form
- Permutation Design - Building, Texts, and Contexts
Practical Computational Design
- AAD Algorithms-Aided Design. Parametric strategies using Grasshopper by Arturo Tedeschi
- Informed Architecture: Computational Strategies in Architectural Design
- Parametric Design for Architecture by Wassim Jabi (Author), Brian Johnson (Afterword), Robert Woodbury (Foreword)
- Architectural Geometry by Helmut Pottmann et al.
- Algorithmic Architecture ~ Kostas Terzidis
- Pamphlet Architecture 27: Tooling by Benjamin Aranda et al.
Organic Form and nature…
- On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition by D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson - The classic
- The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants - A PDF download that is a great resource for L-systems, plant growth, etc. In addition there is a extensive library of papers at U of Calgary’s Algorithmic Botany Page
- Structure in Nature is a Strategy for Design by Peter Pearce
Other Links of interest
- Michael Hansmeyer site, but it’s always worth to check it out again
- Digital Ground, Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing by Malcolm McCullough, MIT press
- From Control to Design: Parametric/Algorithmic Architecture by Tomoko Sakamoto
- Scripted by Purpose most of the work exhbited here was curated by skylar tibbits marc fornes of theverymany.
- Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture lecture by Manuel Delanda
- Proceedural Building Information Modeling for Digital Fabrication by Dritsas, S. Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, Daegu, South Korea. (PDF)
