Processing graphics

Now that i´m back into production mode I decided to keep on with my learning and research of processing, this time y made some simple sketches to generate this graphics, loading some .png images and transforming polar coordinates to Cartesian which are the ones processing can understand this is my first attempt to generate some digital prints i´m looking forward improving the quality and complexity of them.

Rhino Grasshopper Wrokshop

Lately haven´t post anything new because I have been away from the computer for a couple of weeks planing my trip to Barcelona , just until yesterday i took again my PC and started to use the last version of the WIP Grasshopper for Rhino and even do it is at its 0.5 version the functionality of it its amazing i can´t wait to see what it will be capable of once the 1.0 is ready, i have been playing around with the Bounding Box and Morph Box components and i have found them very useful , here is a quick render of an excercise i did for a Workshop I am planing to give before i go to Spain.

parametric structure exercise

The other day i was watching some documentaries of Calatravas´s work ,suddenly I took a piece of paper start doing some lines then I passed them into rhino , made a Grasshopper definition and here are some of the results i got, its amazing what you can achieve by using parametric systems in terms of variability and speed of design all the models shown here were made in just a couple of hours once I got my definition made It allowed me to control de radius of the diferent srtucture parts as well as the number of sections among some other things,if you want to understand better the process I went trough please watch this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBrZoQm_Ln8

certainty v.s. randomness

Quick eskecth made in Processing to play with randomness and pre established configurations.

Augmented reality made in Processing

This is an augmented reality exercise application i made using Processing and J Myron library, i was able to track a specific color from the video stream and then mix it with a code i wrote for generating some random particles. Will keep up my research in order to achieve more complex interactivity perhaps using audio next time.

arabic tessellations update

Here are just some preview images of the tessellations I´m developing for the Dubai tower competition

processing video test

A quick experiment i have made in procesing using Jmyron library will keep working in order to make more complex and interactive results.

hello Processing !!

arabic tesselations

Currently working in collaboration with KRFR group of Barcelona, in the developmento of a tower for Dubai for the XI ThyssenKrupp Elevator competition, this are the first experiments for generating an arabic pattern tesselation, one of the intentions is that the tesselation takes into consideration enviormental data in its generation steps , more from this project on the next posts.

parametric facade experiment

This a project i developed with some architecture students of the ITESM , the objective was to develop the facade of a building under certain parametric conditions which had to deal with the building itself and the urban landscapes that surround the area. The idea of the project is to make some apertures on the facade by linking parametrically the building with the other landscapes.
So depending on the distance that its between the building and the local landscapes the apertures respond in amplitude, in other words if the building its near to a landscape the apertures go wider and if it is the opposite the apertures go narrower.


To achieve this i made a grashopper definition wich infuence a set of curves with a repulsive behaivior , linked to a set of points wich represent the other buildings , this points affect the curves depending the distance that there is between each of the curves and the evaluation point.

parametric facade study

The objective of this project is to develop the exterior facade of a building under certain parametric conditions, the intention is to generate some apertures from flat components depending from the distance that is between the building itself and the landmarks that are located in the area.More info about this project on the next post.

parametric patterns

This is a quick experiment developed in grasshopper for making parametric field patterns the intention of this study was to identify and interconnect different parameters that allowed to form complex patterns on surfaces , this experiment may have different applications for various design purposes like urban landscaping for example. Any questions regarding this project please contact me.

tower body study

This is an experiment i did some time ago ,the use of analysis tools for form finding is becoming one of the top priorities in my research work that's why i have been using lately Ecotect which is a very powerful enviormental analysis tool.
In this project i made a simple algorithm based on a simple geometry ( ellipse) in order to generate the volume of a tower building . The form of the building was optimized to reduce the wind pressure loads this was achieved by making some wind pressure analysis on ecotect and orienting the thinner part of the build in the same direction of the highest wind current. Also some incidental radiation analysis were made to know the solar exposure of the building this kind of analysis help a lot in order to develop bio climatic systems.Finally i used rhinoscript to make a exoesquleton skin for the building.

my version of a rib builder

Extracting ribs from complex surfaces is one of the clasic scripts that exists so finally y have decided to do my own version it still has some things to fix and also there is missing the massive unroll function to get all the rib sections separate to send it to CNC but the hard part is already finished i will post some photos of the finished work

surface components

Project related with the implementation of components over surface geometries, scripting processes can help us to design and implement diverse components on complex surfaces in order to make more efficient bodies.
Particularly this project had the objective of the elaboration of an algorithm that takes a host surface to generate components that resemble the skin of a reptile, as a result we can see surfaces with a very interesting texture.This work is able to be manufactured becaouse each component is made out of simple triangular planes.