Abstract
This paper explores the role of frameworks and conventions in design computation workflows for collaboration on the development of design, structure and detailed fabrication within a visual scripting environment. The frameworks were developed in the computational team Dsearch of the architectural practice White Arkitekter and the engineering practice of structure, and was used in the part-time 12-month design and build workshop Textile Hybrids at the HafenCity Universität Hamburg. During the workshop, the framework was further developed to facilitate iterative design/analysis studies between design models in a visual scripting environment and a FEM simulation environment through cloud-based data exchange protocols. The authors regard this continuous re-development of workflow frameworks during design development as emergent, and regard this as a valuable and potential mode of development also for architecture and engineering practice. This is shown in the individual practices of the authors, where additional layers have been added.
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Key plugins used within the framework include Conduit, Elefront, Flux, Honeybee, Human, Human UI, Kangaroo 2, Ladybug, Lunchbox, MeshEdit, Metahopper, Python and Weaverbird.
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Rhino Membrane is a Rhino plugin for form-finding tensile structures, with an associated plugin for Grasshopper. http://www.food4rhino.com/app/rhinomembrane-v20.
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SOFiSTiK is a software for finite element analysis. http://www.sofistik.com.
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Flux is a cloud based platform for data exchange between different Grasshopper files as well as between different platforms such as Rhino, Grasshopper, Dynamo, Revit and Excel. http://Flux.io.
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Slack is an online communications platform for teams, that allows both open threads for all members to exchange information and direct person to person chat functions. http://Slack.com.
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STiKbug is a plugin at development stage, and not yet released, courtesy of R. La Magna.
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Student Team: Marcelo Acevedo Pardo, Fabrizio M. Amoruso, Vasileios Angelakoudis, Nick Dimke, Kaspar Ehrhardt, Luisa Höltig, Timo van der Horst, Tobias Hövermann, Michel Kokorus, Dennis Mönkemeyer, Anies Ruhani-Shishevan, Gert Salzer, Anton Samoruko, Dino Tomasello, Zeliha Atabek, Björn Bahnsen, Niklas Dürr, Maria Fritzenschaft, Matthis Gericke, Mahmoud Ghazala Einieh, Can-Peter Grothmann, Moritz Seifert, Timo Volkmann
Surveying: Erik Jensen, Dominik Trau]
Supervision: Lehrstuhl Tragwerksentwurf Prof. Michael Staffa, Wiebke Brahms
Membrane Manufacturing workshop: Jakob Frick
HCU Labs: Thomas Kniephoff, Jens Ohlendieck, Kai Schramme
Fire Simulation: Ingenieurgesellschaft Stürzl mbH
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Runberger, J., Lienhard, J. (2018). Collaborative Models for Design Computation and Form Finding—New Workflows in Versioning Design Processes. In: De Rycke, K., et al. Humanizing Digital Reality. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6611-5_40
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