COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN: NEXT 1.0 - June 13-14, 2020

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN: NEXT 1.0

Additive Stereotomy

Additive Stereotomy is a proposal by Maurizio Barberio and Micaela Colella of Barberio Colella ARC, developed with the support of Diederik Veenendaal of Summum Engineering.

The overall concept is to cover a large, open space by a series of adjacent arches. Under permanent load, the arches are thought to be statically independent, in order to form a sort of “false vault”. By using Grasshopper, Summum Engineering determined the shape of the arches and volume fraction of the voussoirs to achieve constant stress, as well as the amount of prestress to keep them in compression under external load. Material properties are based on the 3D printing technology provided by Concr3de, and were used in plugin Karamba3d to check the arches for several load combinations. Each voussoir is topologically optimized in 2D to achieve a volume fraction specific to its position in the arch, in order to achieve constant stress, yet with a visually similar sizing.

Bongo 3 WIP Now Available

Bongo 2.0 users are encouraged to download and try this WIP release of the animation plug-in for Rhino 6, Bongo 3.0.

New Features include:
-Integration with Bullet physics for rigid and softbody simulation
-New expressions properties for physics parameters
-Improved IK system named Connections
-Bongo gumball for simpler keyframing of objects

Bongo 3.0 WIP 3 is now available from here.