Master of Robotics and Advanced Construction at IaaC Barcelona

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) is introducing a new Master in Robotics and Advanced Construction (MRAC) and related scholarships and internship opportunities for students offered by IaaC.

The IaaC is a center of research, education, production, and outreach. Based in Barcelona, Spain, the Institute's mission is to envision the future habitat of our society and build the present. Following the digital revolution at all scales, from bits to geography, from micro-controllers to cities, from materials to the territory, the IaaC is an experimental and experiential center where one learns by doing, through a test of methodology that promotes real solutions.

The Master in Robotics and Advanced Construction (MRAC), co-directed by Alexandre Dubor and Aldo Sollazzo, seeks to train a new generation of interdisciplinary professionals capable of facing our growing need for a more sustainable and optimized construction eco-system. The Master focuses on the emerging design and market opportunities arising from novel robotic and advanced manufacturing systems, by offering an international and multidisciplinary environment where engineers, designers, architects, artisans, and industry partners rethink the construction industry.

For MRAC, IaaC announces two full scholarships at ABB and CRICURSA, followed by a remunerated three months internship in their facilities in Barcelona.

Students will learn to:

• manipulate and integrate robotics and advanced manufacturing process
• create and generate a parametric design for mass customization in the connected industry 4.0
• integrate computer vision and sensor feedback for complex material systems and fabrication processes
• explore the potential of computational optimization, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
• understand and integrate the potential of autonomous robot systems
• develop new applications of augmented reality and connected mobile devices
• propose new digital design and building technologies for both prefabrication and on-site construction

MRAC program...

MRAC scholarships...

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Job offer for a C# RhinoCommon Developer at Alfred Wegener Institute (Bremerhaven, Germany)

The Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is well known for its contributions to research in global environment, geo systems, and climate.

ELiSE Leichtbau is a technology brand of the AWI. The ELiSE team focuses on lightweight design and optimization based on the biologic research on algae skeletons and collaborates with major companies in the automotive and aerospace industry, among others.

The Bremerhaven (Germany) team is searching for a software developer as soon as possible for the following tasks:

- contribution to the development of a modular software architecture for the parametric generation and assessment of geometries
- assistance in the development of a Grasshopper plugin
- design of an upcoming software in a planned start-up

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's Degree (or similar) in a study program related to computer science or engineering
- advanced knowledge of C#
- experience with microservice architectures
- experience with graphics applications
- experience in agile software development with continuous integration
- experience in CAD kernels (RhinoCommon, Parasolid,...)

The job offer is limited until August 31, 2019, with the option of a long-term extension and the prospect of a key developer position in the start-up.

If you are interested in a challenging software development in an open-minded, young group, please contact AWI directly or find further information on the position (in German): https://www.awi.de/nc/arbeiten-lernen/jobs/stellenangebote/software-entwicklerin.html

*Students with C# and Grasshopper skills are also welcome to apply to a part time job by contacting daniel.siegel@awi.de 

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Free webinar: Improving Your Marine Designs with Orca3D CFD

In the past, marine design with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) was expensive and required the expertise of a specialist. Now Orca3D Marine CFD has changed all of that, coupling the power and ease-of-use of Rhino, Orca3D, and Simerics MP.

Register for this webinar to see how accessible Orca3D Marine CFD can be. It takes just minutes to set up and start an analysis, and it is practical to run on ordinary engineering laptops or desktops.

Date and time: 13 June 2018, 9 AM EDT

More information and to register...

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Introduction to Jewellery Modeling and 3D Printing

Introduction to Jewellery Modeling and 3D Printing by Chesco Díaz

16-17 June 2018

Instituto Gemológico Español 

C/ Alenza, 1. 28003 Madrid

The IGE (Instituto Gemológico Español) is organizing an introductory course to Jewellery Modeling and 3D Printing. Chesco Diaz, jewelry modeler, Rhinoceros and Rhinogold authorized trainer, and IGE teacher will show the typical working process from the design to the printing of the jewelry piece.

Course Fee: EUR 100. IGE members will get a 15% discount.

Seats are limited!

More information (in Spanish)...

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Bison for Grasshopper + Rhino 6

Bison is a landscape architecture plugin for Grasshopper + Rhino 6. It features tools for terrain mesh creation, analysis, editing, and annotation.

It focuses on a continuous workflow from mesh analysis to editing and works to keep components concise and intuitive. The analysis tools include slope and aspect visualization, cut/fill calculations, watershed modeling and more, while the editing components transform the mesh based on curves and points. Bison also includes tools for importing landscape meshes, triangulation, and resampling, as well as components for annotating plans and cutting sections.

It is currently in its first beta release. Visit bison.la for a download link and component documentation.

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Snøhetta's radiating landscape

In Lund in southern Sweden, Snøhetta has designed a functional landscape park to radiate from the synchrotron radiation laboratory MAX IV. The landscape functions to mitigate ground vibrations.

Testing revealed that traffic on the nearby highway caused ground vibrations that could influence the laboratory's experiments. The flatter the landscape, the more vibrations reach the site. The more chaotic the landscape, the fewer vibrations reach the site.

The 3D modeling proved crucial. Snøhetta established the design layout by extracting the nature of vibrations into rational values inserted in Grasshopper. The mounds pitch and roll at a wavelength pattern that corresponds to the traffic vibration, while responding to the circular form of the synchrotron building. 

Landscape Architecture Magazine looks at it this way:

Simply say the word "parametric" in a room of architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and planner, and you will be met with a lot of eye rolling. This is not unwarranted--what is essentially a form generating method with considerable aesthetic appeal has, for at least the past decade, often been treated as an end, and not a means. Rules are fed into the program, and three-dimensional forms result. The description of inputs is expectedly complex, but reflects actual conditions on site and produced outputs that have an actual, measurable impact. In the case of MAX IV, the wavelength of the traffic vibration, tangent lines extending from the 528-meter circle of the synchrotron, and a set of waves radiating out from it were plugged in to create an amplitude--resulting in a bumpy surface--to reduce the on-site vibration to as close to zero as possible. Jenny Osuldsen, a project architect with Snøhetta, said, "For once we can use parametric design in a real way."

More details on the Snøhetta site...

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Speckle 1.0.0

Speckle is an open source design/AEC data exchange platform currently integrated with Grasshopper and Rhino. It helps designers share geometry and information easily and in real time among their team, and keep full ownership of their data. You can test out the plugins straight away!

Recently, the Speckle Server & API have reached the 1.0 milestone. Now you can dive in more deeply in deploying your server, managing your streams online, etc.

If you want to be part of the Speckle community, share thoughts or cries for help, you can visit the forum or the Speckle Slack channel. Code contributions are more than welcome - all the code is released on GitHub under the MIT license.

This project started out of the InnoChain research network (of which McNeel is an industry partner) and received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 642877.

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