DR_SoM Design Research Series on Method

Form-finding through minimisation

The master MPDA in Parametric Design in Architecture is happy to announce that Daniel Piker will lecture and participate in the jury of Studio2 next Thursday, June the 20th, at 14.00h in ETSAV's Assembly Hall in Sant Cugat del Valles, Barcelona.

The course is focused on construction-aware design and concludes with the fabrication of 1:1 models based on novel and experimental building systems. This year students are designing and fabricating hybrid bending-active spherical GFRP elastic gridshells, with a high emphasis in the fabrication feasibility, and extensively relying on both physical and digital models made with Kangaroo and analyzed with K2e. The course has counted through several seminars and masterclasses with the participation of international field experts including Christoph Gengnagel, Riccardo La Magna and Cecilie Brandt.

Daniel Piker
Form-finding through minimisation

Daniel is involved in the design and realization of complex forms in architecture, through both research and practice. Formerly working at Arup's Advanced Geometry Unit, and currently, in the Specialist Modelling Group at Foster+Partners, he is also the developer of the form-finding tool 'Kangaroo' which enables a wide range of interactive physical simulation and optimization within the Rhino3d CAD software.

Grasshopper - ArchiCAD 23 webinar (in Spanish) - June 26, 2019

ArchiCAD 23 has been announced recently, and the connection with Rhino and Grasshopper is now even stronger.

Come join SIMBIM Solutions webinar on Algorithmic Design (Grasshopper) in ArchiCAD.