LaN @ Boulder Colorado USA – JAN 2012

COLORADO FOOTPRINTS grasshopper data mining & cnc milling

LaN director Monika Wittig & Co-de-iT’s Andrea Graziano present 2012 kick-off workshop for ‘LIVING FORCES’ focus

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hosted by HANGAR 41

@825 SANTA FE DRIVE, DENVER COLORADO

2 part workshop – 4 sessions of data collection & management with Grasshopper for Rhinoceros -AND- 2 sessions of CNC MILLING fabrication

WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS WILL BE GIVEN OPPORTUNITY TO EXHIBIT (& SELL) WORK GENERATED IN WORKSHOP via LaNs FIRST FRIDAY EXHIBITION@HANGAR 41 APRIL 06 2012

weekday sessions: 6-10pm / weekend sessions: to be held within the hours of 11a-8pm

• *LAUNCH fees through FEB 15:
• $350. full workshop
• $450. full workshop + LaN sponsored Rhinoceros edu license *please provide proof of academic status + 1 hour LaN virtual Rhino assistance /troubleshooting
• $195. data mining (grasshopper) or data milling sessions (cnc milling) only
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• fees FEB 15+:
• $395. full workshop
• $495. full workshop
• $225. data mining (grasshopper) or data milling sessions (cnc milling) only
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• enrollment limited to first 20 professionals / students
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  full workshop fee $350.00 USD full workshop + rhino $450.00 USD part 1 or 2 only $195.00 USD

  
  

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• 2 PART workshop TAKE ONE or BOTH
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• part 1 : DATA MINING via Grasshopper Parametric Plug-in for Rhinoceros 3d modeling
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• wed FEB 28 6-10pm
• thu FEB 29 6-10pm
• sat MAR 3 tba 4 hours within 11a – 8pm
• sun MAR 4 tba 4 hours within 11a – 8pm
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• Tools are extensions of our brains. Devices enable us to capture more invisible data and render it visible to analyze and process further. Self-monitoring triggers self knowledge and self awareness. This new economically accessible self-sensor-ing provides us with enormous potential to acquire data. This surely impacts ours design explorations– extent of customized solutions. Instruction hones in on approaching a design process as a scientist would as opposed to visionary architects of the recent past (top-down vs. bottom-up)–testing project drivers and responding to unpredictable emerging outputs
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• key topics
• • basis of grasshopper parametric plug-in for rhinoceros
  • tracking personal health with mobile apps / sensors
  • understanding the inherent craft of data-collection
  • data flow – exportability of sensor data for use in modeling environments
  • understanding of data management through grasshopper
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• tech utilized / highlighted
• gps tracking mobile app / pachube / ghowl / grasshopper
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  • part 2 : DATA MILLING via cnc milling
• sat MAR 3 tba 4 hours within 11a – 8pm
• sun MAR 4 tba 4 hours within 11a – 8pm
• mon MAR 5 6-10pm
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• Hands-on time-constrained collaborative prototyping will reinforce the notion that we are no longer seeking nor believing in only one viable solution but rather crafting our data to drive iterative outcomes within material & production constraints. Fabrication will exercise collaborative potential + issues while highlighting the creative resolve for time & economy of machining.
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• • key topics
  • • Rhinoceros modeling -for- fabrication output
    • smart designing via production parameters
    • generating G code to run CNC milling files via Rhinoceros plug-in RhinoCam
    • basics of CNC Milling fabrication

  
  

• tech utilized / highlighted
• rhinocam / rhinoceros / cnc 3 axis router

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Monika Wittig currently explores the collaborative potential of digital design + fabrication practices as Director of LaN (Live Architecture Network). Monika directs international LaN workshops in collaboration with local fabrication resources as well as current concentrated efforts in Rome in collaboration with Solido 360 prototyping. Monika formerly served as visiting faculty for Montana State University & IN/ARCH – Istituto Nazionale di Architettura (Rome). She holds a postgraduate degree in ‘Digital Architecture Production’ from IaaC (Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona) and has studied at AA (Architectural Association, London) & The University of Colorado. Monika credits her early architectural experience with the practices Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Research + Design (ReD) and collaborative experience withVicente Guallart Architects.

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