To Understand the BIM

In reality the destination for BIM is pretty simple, a data rich model. Data. The most important aspect of BIM. Everything from door schedules to area calculations to material quantities to construction schedules are simply ways to analyze the data. The better the data, the better the analysis. More data means more ways to analyze the project. Better analysis will always result in better decisions which builds a better building.

http://www.bimgeneration.com/english/#home

http://www.bimgeneration.com/english/pdf/bim-book_25x30.pdf

Where will BIM be in five years time ?

http://www.ribaj.com/intelligence/where-will-bim-be-in-five-years-time

BIM R&D Groups

ENCORD

http://www.encord.org/

The European Network of Construction Companies for Research and Development (ENCORD) is a network of active members from the construction industry, represented by decision-makers and executives working on research, development and innovation (R,D&I) and providing service to experts and the operational sides within the member companies. ENCORD has 21 members with head offices in 11 European countries and operations worldwide. All members are major European contractors and/or suppliers of construction material and are strongly devoted to R,D&I for increased competitiveness and growth. 

The construction sector is facing major challenges for continued quality-of-life and growth in Europe. From an industrial point of view, ENCORD has identified the following priorities which are discussed at regular council meetings, specific ENCORD workshops and platforms:

- Eco-efficient Construction
- Mastering Greenhouse Gas Emissions und Sustainability
- Knowledge Management (KM)
- Lean Construction
- ICT for Virtual construction
- Infrastructure
- Health & Safety (H&S)
- The implications of the Aging Society for the construction sector
- Implementation of Research Activities

5D Initiative

http://www.5d-initiative.eu/

The 5D-initiative is an independent task-force of the European Network of Construction Companies for Research and Development (ENCORD). This network consists of construction contractors and material suppliers who are strongly devoted to research and development (R&D) for increased competitiveness and growth. Together, these 19 member companies, representing 9 European countries, employ more than 1.5M people and have a combined annual revenue of over 205B €.

The 5D-initiative tries to pro-actively coordinate and propel the development of software solutions that support process integration. It does so, on a solid, strategic foundation in corporation with industry competitors, software vendors and research institutes.

3D Printing and 4D Printing

3D Printer with a diffrent approach

What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over ... slowly. Onstage at TED2015, he unveils a bold new technique — inspired, yes, by Terminator 2 — that's 25 to 100 times faster, and creates smooth, strong parts. Could it finally help to fulfill the tremendous promise of 3D printing?

http://www.ted.com/talks/joe_desimone_what_if_3d_printing_was_25x_faster

4D Printing: The next level of additive manifacturing

http://www.selfassemblylab.net/4DPrinting.php

The ability to create shape-memory effects like folding, curling, stretching or twisting—based on the orientation and location of particular fibers within composite materials—opens up huge possibilities for product design. It may also be possible this shape-altering technology can be adapted to metals and other materials.

Industries that can especially benefit from the use of adaptive, composite materials include manufacturing, packaging, and biomedical. A possible aerospace application is using 3D printers to build solar panels that would power space satellites. The panels could be built flat and stored compactly during launch, and then transformed to 4D dimensions in space.

As 3D printing technology continues to evolve with more complex, printable materials and higher resolutions at larger scales, it is very likely that 4D printing will provide new ways to create highly functional, complex surfaces that could revolutionize engineering.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/03/this-bubbling-ferrofluid-light-works-like-a-magnetized-lava-lamp/

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/dancing-droplets-prakash-031115.html

Autodesk is now in Amazon Web Services

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/autodesk/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsRBftzZsQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ilSVM44MI

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.

Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon’s proven computing environment. Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use. Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from common failure scenarios.

Firefly- Design Interactively

http://www.fireflyexperiments.com/#home

Fortunately, Firefly has an advanced Code Generation feature which translate the visual representation of your Grasshopper graph directly into Arduino compatible code.  And it does this all on the fly. Now, you don't need to worry about writing all of that code yourself.  Simply, prototype your design as you normally would, and the Code Generator will work in the background writing all of the code necessary to make your design come to life!

https://vimeo.com/93142381

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHnaLbghZ1o

The Design of Software Engineering

http://www.danieldavis.com/thesis-ch3/

Comparison of various Software Engineering Bodies of Knowledge (click for larger image). Blue: Equivalent knowledge areas. Red: Areas of knowledge applied to parametric modelling in my research.

The programming languages architects use categorised by Appleby and VandeKopple’s (1997, xiv) taxonomy of programming paradigms.

To a computer, a parametric model reads as a set of instructions. The computer takes the inputs, applies the sequence of explicit functions, and thereby generates the parametric model’s outputs. “Anybody involved in any job that ultimately creates instructions that are executed by a computer, machine or even biological entity, can be said to be programming” argues David Rutten (2012), the developer of the popular parametric modelling interface, Grasshopper. This is not to say programming and parametric modelling are synonymous. There are clearly significant differences between designing architecture and designing software. Yet in both cases, there is a common concern with automating computation through sequences of instructions. Despite this “common ground” (Woodbury 2010, 66), and despite architects recognising that parametric modelling is often “more similar to programming than to conventional design” (Weisberg 2008, 16.12), the implications of the parallels between parametric modelling and software engineering remain largely unexplored. In particular, two pertinent questions remain unaddressed: if parametric modelling and software engineering both concern the automation of computers, do they both encounter the same challenges when doing so? And if they share the same challenges, are parts of their respective bodies of knowledge transferable in alleviating these challenges?

Processing

Processing is an open source programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts,new media art, and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching the fundamentals of computer programming in a visual context, and to serve as the foundation for electronic sketchbooks. The project was initiated in 2001 by Casey Reas and Benjamin Fry, both formerly of the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab. One of the stated aims of Processing is to act as a tool to get non-programmers started with programming, through the instant gratification of visual feedback. The language builds on the Java language, but uses a simplified syntax and graphics programming model.

https://processing.org/
http://processingjs.org/
http://www.openprocessing.org/

Projectile Workshop

Projectile was an intractive video mapping workshop. I was a participant of this workshop. We mapped animations over the parametric 3D models. We used Rhino, Grasshopper, After Effects, Processing, MadMapper softwares together.