
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 [...]
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 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 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 span of the [...]
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 data [...]

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 [...]
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 [...]

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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.

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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.

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 city. [...]
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 [...]

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 [...]

Provided are some examples of how to bridge between OpenOffice’s Calc program and Rhinoscript or Grasshopper.

Synchronous UDP Receiver
GH version 0.6.0019
Description:
This definition allows receiving with the User Datagram Protocol through .net. Please note, this definition uses a synchronous structure, meaning Rhino/GH will hang until some data is received from an external application. Please run the included Processing Sketch in order to begin transmitting continuous data to GH.
Examples:
http://www.livearchitecture.net/archives/3664
http://www.livearchitecture.net/archives/3732
http://www.livearchitecture.net/archives/3745
Requirements:
Grasshopper 0.6.0019
Processing 1.0.5: http://www.processing.org
UDP Library [...]

LaN OnSite Barcelona v2 workshops concluded with composite fabrication processes and associative design production. Participants joined a two phase / six module workshop series that immersed them in contemporary digital design and fabrication techniques. McNeel Rhinoceros was the base platform for all design and parameterization. Through the Grasshopper plugin for Rhino, participants [...]
LaN co-director, Luis Fraguada, has been invited by McNeel Europe to instruct a RhinoScript workshop during the eCAADE 2009 Istanbul Conference. The 2-Day intensive session will be held September 14-15, 2009. For more information, visit the eCAADE 2009 website.
About eCAADE:
What is eCAADe?
eCAADe (Education and research [...]

In a collaboration with Shajay Bhooshan, Autodesk Maya 2009 can communicate with McNeel’s Rhinoceros::Grasshopper. The work on communicating to and from Grasshopper via the user datagram protocol (UDP) was to effectively speed up communication between programs without the use of each program writing and reading a text file. This investigation was begun to open up [...]

The following videos show communication between Grasshopper and Processing via the UDP protocol.
This is an example of communication through UDP in vb.net and processing. There is one receiving processing sketch which is listening to UDP data from another processing sketch and a grasshopper definition.
This is an example of getting data (although very simple) into [...]
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This is an example of a basic Maya Fluid into McNeel’s Grasshopper Plugin. There is an expression acting on the Fluid to export out points based on fluid vector magnitudes. Grasshopper is reading this text file via a vb.net component. This is made possible by Giulio Piacentino’s “The Engine” [...]

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GH.net_SrfPanels for GH 0.6.0043
GH.net_SrfPanels for GH 0.6.0012
Definition subdivides a surface into quad or triangular facets or ‘panels’ all inside a scripting component. Note: Image is basic definition + additional GH components.

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GH Random Point Matrix for GH 0.6.0043
GH Random Point Matrix for GH 0.6.0012
GH Random Point Matrix for GH 0.5.0060
Description: Definition uses the VB.NET node to generate a random matrix of points using the RandomClass inside of VB.net (for version 0043) to apply the randomness.

Thank you to Andrea Graziano and Davide del Giudice for their invitation to participate in the aast/// advanced architecture settimo tokyo exhibition. As LaN, we presented our global distribution and activities as a departure from the conventional concept of an architectural office. Samples of three projects were provided in the form of STL models which [...]
Photos by Alberto Algaba Salazar
This recently completed workshop on SCRIPTING + DIGITAL FABRICATION brought together students, educators, and professionals to experience for the first time scripted processed applied to architectural prototyping and manufacturing. The workshop had dual locations with an intense Rhinoscript session taking place May 21-23rd in Donostia (San Sebastian), Spain and a CNC [...]