Are you interested in gaining Parametric competency to push your design skills to the next level?

Are you ready to learn a very exciting and powerful tool that will take your ideas and concepts to a whole new realm?

This Parametric Design Workshop will provide you with the necessary knowledge and ability to use Grasshopper, a free visual programming plugin in Rhinoceros. The workshop will also include a hands on parametric project.

If you already know Grasshopper and would like to uplift your parametric knowledge, then you can choose option 2.

Option 1: General Workshop for Beginners - 16 hours: Start 14.07.2018

Option 2: Intensive Workshop for Intermediates - 8 hours: Start 21.07.2018

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Option 1: General Workshop for Beginners Schedule

Total duration is 16 hours: 2 consecutive Weekends (Saturdays+Sundays), 10:00-14:00

Saturday 14.07.2018:

Unit 01 (2-hours): Basic: Rhino Intro, GH Interface, Number Generators, Points, Lines, Vectors, Curves, Curve Evaluation.

Unit 02 (2-hours): Basic: Transforms, Planes, Surfaces, Surface Evaluation.

Sunday 15.07.2018:

Unit 03 (2-hours): Intermediate: Lists, Culling, Boolean Logic, Sorting.

Unit 04 (2-hours): Intermediate: NURBS & Mesh, Brep Analysis/Operations, Mesh Analysis/Operations, Triangulation.

Saturday 21.07.2018:

Unit 05 (2-hours): Intermediate + Digital Fabrication Project: Trees, Branching, Flattening, Grafting.

Unit 06 (2-hours): Intermediate + Digital Fabrication Project: Attractor Logic, Remapping + Graph, Paneling, Geometry Morphing.

Sunday 22.07.2018:

Unit 07 (2-hours): Advanced + Digital Fabrication Project: LunchBox, Paneling Tools, Weaverbird, Orienting, Flattening.

Unit 08 (2-hours): Advanced + Digital Fabrication Project: Text Tagging, Dimensioning, STL Export for 3D Printing + Cura.

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If you already know Grasshopper and would like to uplift your parametric knowledge, then you can choose option 2.

Option 2: Intensive Workshop for Intermediates Schedule

Total duration is 8 hours: Saturday+Sunday, 10:00-14:00

Saturday 21.07.2018:

Unit 05 (2-hours): Intermediate + Digital Fabrication Project: Trees, Branching, Flattening, Grafting.

Unit 06 (2-hours): Intermediate + Digital Fabrication Project: Attractor Logic, Remapping + Graph, Paneling, Geometry Morphing.

Sunday 22.07.2018:

Unit 07 (2-hours): Advanced + Digital Fabrication Project: LunchBox, Paneling Tools, Weaverbird, Orienting, Flattening.

Unit 08 (2-hours): Advanced + Digital Fabrication Project: Text Tagging, Dimensioning, STL Export for 3D Printing + Cura.

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Photos of past Grasshopper Workshops at FabLab:

Coerte Voorhees
Industrial Designer

Ackeem Ngwenya
Product Designer

Adonis Haidar
Architectural Designer
Teaching Assistant/PhD Candidate at University of Salford, UK

Elke Sterling-Presser
SPANS associates
Former Project Architect at Zaha Hadid
Dipl.-Ing(FH), M.A. AAD, Architect AKBW (GER), Architect ARB (GBR)

Julian Delgado Fernandez
Senior Automotive Designer
MA. Transportation & Automobile Design, BA. Industrial Design

Wassef Dabboussi
Workshop Instructor

The Participants will be given optional (but highly recommended) weekly assignments to practice their skills.

The Digital Fabrication Project will be a “Parametric Vase” that the participants will design and fabricate.
Participants will choose 1 out of 5 types of parametric families (1- Wavy, 2- Twist, 3- Cellular, 4- Flat, 5- Organic), then they will develop their design into a complete Grasshopper Definition and fabricate it using FabLab’s facilities (3D Printing, Laser Cutting or CNC Milling).

The instructor will support the participants to make sure their projects will be realized on time.

Samples of past participants parametric vase projects:

Parametric Forest Vase by Ackeem Ngwenya

Flight Parametric Vase by Coerte Voorhees

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CERTIFICATE: Participants will be given a certificate of participation at the end of the Workshop.

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Workshop fees:

Option 1: General Workshop for Beginners.

Total duration is 16 hours: 10:00-14:00
Regular Price: 480€/Regular (excl. MwSt.)
Student discount 20%: 384€/Student (excl. MwSt.)
Students need to provide: Copy of current student ID or proof of student enrollment at University/School.

Option 2: Intensive Workshop for Intermediates.

Total duration is 8 hours: 10:00-14:00
Regular Price: 240€/Regular (excl. MwSt.)
Student discount 20%: 192€/Student (excl. MwSt.)
Students need to provide: Copy of current student ID or proof of student enrollment at University/School.

Workshop Language: English

Participants are kindly asked to bring their own laptops and have pre-installed Rhino + Grasshopper.

Useful Resources:

Rhinoceros Installation (90 days full version trial available):
http://www.rhino3d.com/download

Rhinoceros for Mac (includes Grasshopper)
http://www.rhino3d.com/download/rhino-for-mac/5/wip

Grasshopper Free Installation:
http://www.grasshopper3d.com/page/download-1

Grasshopper Free Plugins:
http://www.food4rhino.com/app/lunchbox
http://www.food4rhino.com/app/panelingtools-grasshopper-rhino-50#downloads_list
http://www.food4rhino.com/app/panda
http://www.giuliopiacentino.com/weaverbird
http://www.food4rhino.com/app/meshedit

3D Printing Slicer Free Software:
https://ultimaker.com/en/products/cura-software

For any questions about the workshop, please email:
wassefdabboucy@gmail.com

Detailed professional profile of instructor:
https://de.linkedin.com/in/dabboussi-wassef-12951513

Steuernummer: 34/255/01544

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http://thomasdiewald.com/blog