MAA02 22/23 Cloud Applications for Architecture: ShapeDiver

Credits: ShapeDiver

Syllabus

In recent years, the quality of architectural design has been insightfully improved by the use of innovative techniques in Rhinoceros and Grasshopper, as well as the advancement of digital fabrication. Computational design, in general, and parametric design, in particular, allow endless possibilities to be explored during design conception. However, the designer often discards most of them, which could be valid for other projects, situations, or users. This is where ShapeDiver can play an essential and differential role, focusing on getting the most out of the same algorithm and turning it into an online configurator. From now on, different users can interact with a generic design and customize it based on their needs in a matter of seconds.

The course’s main objective is to promote and boost the creation of cloud applications in the architectural field by teaching the ShapeDiver plugin through practical exercises. In addition, the students will have the opportunity to learn new project visualization and communication methods, manage data efficiently, interoperate with other software, optimize their definitions and even propose new workflows/business models.

Learning Objectives

At course completion, the student will: 

• Create their online application and use the power of AR to quickly and efficiently communicate their design. 
• Control online rendering parameters that will boost the visual quality of the project.
•  Optimize the grasshopper definition and manage data efficiently through JSON objects. 
• Display interactive visual analyses of designs on data that has been previously extracted from other plugins like Ladybug or Karamba.
• Extract data and download files from the application (For example, 3D Model, CAD files, etc.), assign and display attributes to the geometry, generate files for manufacturing, and produce parametric PDF technical documentation.