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Virginia Tech’s 2009 Solar Decathlon team has recently launched its new website.  lumenHAUS features the developed screen pattern that was studied during the grasshopper workshop held in February 2009.  Following the workshop, Jonathan Grinham and the Virginia Tech Solar Decathlon team continued to develop the script, and have produced a full scale mock-up of the [...]

These a few images from the workshop using Rhino’s Grasshopper to generate patterns for the facade.  Click “more” to see the rest of the gallery.

Hello this is Jennifer Downey from Marble Fairbanks Architects.  I did a workshop conducted Tuesday February 10 through Friday February 13 with the Virginia Tech 2009 Solar Decathlon Team in Blacksburg, Virginia.  The workshop was structured around designing the solar screen for this year’s entry, with a specific focus on Rhino’s grasshopper.   The starting point [...]

This tutorial introduces the VB.NET Script component and goes through two examples of how to use it.  In the first example we create a sine wave pattern of points, and in the second example we create a set of lines and rotate them about a centerpoint to create a kind of nautilus shell.

Surface Panelization

This tutorial explains how to utilize the Surface Box and Box Morph components to populate a surface with user defined geometry.

This tutorial explains how to create a running bond brick patterned surface.  The surface can then be manipulated using the CageEdit command in Rhino.  This is a great tool for quickly generating design intent prior to taking a much more rigorous approach and setting more parameters on the brick.  This also adds a slider component that [...]