Of Interest
LaN network BOSTON: POINTCROWD JUN 8-10
read details below or proceed to official POINT CROWD WEBSITE >> With McNeel’s beta release of Rhinoceros 5.0, RhinoScript is moving to a new syntax: Python. The new, more intuitive interface for manipulating Rhino from the inside gives users without prior programming experience the opportunity to quickly and easily create a wide variety of complex [...]
coming… FEBRUARY 19-21 2011
ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSE WORKSHOP FEBRUARY 19-21 @ MIAMI 3 day workshop on LIVE aspects of digital design & fabrication for architecture Its clear in 2010 perhaps more than ever that significant shifts in economies and culture can occur extremely rapidly; climatic crisis can devastate enormous populations in seconds. Our architectural response is critical. The architectural recourse [...]
TAC: Technically Advanced Construction Program
LaN is excited to be a part of the TAC: Technically Advanced Construction program at the Politecnico di Milano. The listing of tutors for this course is really incredible and we are honored to be part of it. Tutors include professionals in the cutting edge of architectural design and investigation. Thank you to Andrea Graziano [...]
gHowl components update
The new version of the gHowl component set for Grasshopper are available for downloading. This version adds functionality to the existing component set, as well as fixes some issues. You can download the components here: gHowl_r46 gHowl is developed by: Giulio Piacentino, Damien Alomar, and Luis E. Fraguada. Here are the components included in this [...]
LaN goes to the 3D Design Finals of Cut&Paste
LaN Port-Director CarloMaria Ciampoli made it to the final round of Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament. The event will take place on October 2nd at Webster Hall in New York. If you can’t make it to the live event watch it online on Justin.TV About Cut&Paste Through events and online programs, Cut&Paste supports artists, firms and [...]
eVolo 2011 Skyscraper Competition
LaN Port-Director Carlomaria Ciampoli is been invited to be part of the jury for the 2011 eVolo 2011 Skyscraper Competition. “The annual eVolo Skyscraper Competition is a forum for the discussion, development, and promotion of innovative concepts for vertical density. It examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the [...]
WIP: LaN Live Parameters 2010
Images from the second day of the Live Parameters workshop being held at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC). What you see here are images of the first LaN Urban Sensing Kit (working title). This kit was designed by Felipe Pecegueiro do Amaral Curado, Oriol Carrasco, and Alba Armengol Gasull and includes a [...]
WIP: IaaC Summer School 2010
http://fablabbcn.org/informalism/ The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia Summer School has been in session since Aug 19th 2010. This one month course is about to come to an end next week, but before we finish, we want to share some of the work in progress. The road to this summer school began with a mutual [...]
LaN @ Advances in Architectural Geometry 2010
LaN will be instructing a workshop at this years Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference 2010 in Vienna, Austria. Workshops for AAG10 are Saturday September 18th and Sunday September 19th 2010 and the conference will be September 20 and 21. We are pleased to be included in the program for this year’s event as there are [...]
LaN @ AA Shanghai Visiting School
LaN Co-Director Luis E. Fraguada has been invited to teach a unit at the Architectural Association’s Shanghai Visiting School, directed by Tom Verebes. The visiting school takes place from Friday August 13th – Saturday August 21st 2010. The event will be hosted at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture Shanghai Study Center and [...]
Project for UDON Restaurant Madrid
Project Architect: Quim Girbau & Neus Mateu Design Consultation and Fabrication: Medio Design Parametric Design and Geometry Consultation: Luis E. Fraguada – LaN This project for the design the UDON Chueca restaurant in Madrid was recently completed by Arquitects Quim Girbau & Neus Mateu. Medio Design and LaN collaborated on the ceiling which traverses the [...]
Live Parameters: LaN On-Site Barcelona 3 Workshop
LaN announces its third On Site Barcelona workshop August 23rd through 29th at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC): Live Parameters. One of the key elements in any associative design model is the data to which it responds. The ‘Live Parameters’ workshop will investigate several modes for interacting with real time, real life [...]
Collaborative Cloud Project
Collaborative Cloud is an installation which investigates distributed and decentralized design and fabrication. The interface (in the link above) allows you to design and give information to a piece of the cloud, thus anyone can participate in the project’s growth over the next 8 months. The physical construction will take place at the Disseny Hub [...]
Smart Geometry 2010 Barcelona
These images show a glimpse into what were the workshop sessions during the Smart Geometry 2010 event, which took place at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) from the 19th through the 24th of April (with Conference sessions taking place at the Petit Palau). This event came to Barcelona and IaaC thanks to [...]
BOS: LaN ‘LIVE FORCES’ 2 day workshop
Dates: Weekend of February 12-13 Brief: It’s no secret that building design is influenced by external factors such as sunlight, wind, and precipitation (to name a few). With the onset of digital design practices changing how we design and construct the built environment, we would like to take the opportunity to gather a group of [...]
LaN / Microsoft NERD Scholarships – APRIL
**if you have arrived to assist LaN in voting for 2 scholars… please scroll below to the entries in the reply field, review and submit 2 names / your affiliation in the reply field… please note this is not an experience competition– judging will be on interest and intended application following workshop– all experience levels [...]
Fabricating for Haiti MAR 11-14 Santo Domingo Wrkshp
LaN Focus: Fabricating for Haiti LaN invites professionals and students alike to attend a 4 day workshop (evenings + weekend) focused on research and development of temporary structures for the displaced victims of the Haiti Earthquake. Participants will learn Digital Design and Fabrication methods and later apply those methods in project proposals. The workshop will [...]
GH Surface Subdivision Strategies
Downloads: GH Srf Subdivision Strategies for GH 0.6.0043 **REQUIRES WEAVERBIRD Description: This definition is a collection of ten methods to subdivide surfaces. Collection includes UV Division, Physical Distance, and Mesh Algorithm subdivision strategies. Further Catmull-Clark mesh subdivisions thanks to Giulio Piacentino’s Weaverbird Plug-in for Rhino and Grasshopper. Below are examples of the subdivisions generated.
GH Surface Diagrid Pattern
Downloads: GH Surface Digrid Pattern for GH 0.6.0043 Description: This definition uses a vb.net component to panel a surface with a diagrid pattern.
Designing Interface Architecture – Brazil 2010
UPDATE: The fund raising for the first edition of this workshop series has been successful! In 30 days, 54 wonderful supporters pledged from $1 – $1000 to make this event possible. We want to thank them and everyone else who’s actions were paramount in spreading the word. FABberz (www.fabberz.com) and LaN (www.livearchitecture.net) are collaborating to [...]
LaN at Hong Kong – Shenzhen Biennale 2009
Photos By Tom Verebes These images show a recent collaboration between Ocean CN, Crystal Design, and LaN for the Hong Kong – Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale 2009. LaN was asked to develop a custom user interface for an associative urban model in order to provide visitors to the biennale with the experience of designing their own [...]
Generate Seminar Review, Oulu, Finland
Photos from a recent trip Oulu, Finland. LaN co-director, Luis Fraguada, was invited to Oulu to lecture and teach at the Generate Seminar. The seminar was organized by the Algorithmic Architecture Project Group at the University of Oulu, Department of Architecture. Many, many sincere thanks to Eetu Arponen, Eva Haggrén, Aulikki Herneoja, Eeva Hinkka, Hannes [...]
**LaN WORKSHP @ San Juan Dec 2-5
LaN Digital Fabrication and Rhino Workshop San Juan, Puerto Rico *December 2 – 5 location: Classes will take place in in the following location: TASK 420 Calle San Antonio esquina Calle Sagrado Corazon, Suite 1 Santurce, Puerto Rico 00909 *tentative Digital Fabrication explorations by using the CNC machine at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de [...]
Alternate Interface: Control Grasshopper from iPod
Current exploration into alternative interfaces for presenting and interacting with associative models. Here we see two examples of communication from an iPod Touch 2g to McNeel’s Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino. This is made possible by Open Sound Control (OSC) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). In these examples, a Processing interface was utilized to show [...]
