Gaurav Goel announced the publication of his first article in Window & Facade Magazine India.

This article talks about how biomimicry and computational design has influenced the discourse of facade design and is illustrated with one of Gaurav's design projects from a London competition.

Gaurav holds a master's degree in architecture from the University of Nottingham and a master's diploma in parametric design from Spain.  In 2016, Goel founded Parametric Curiosity, an architecture studio and social media blog for sharing digital explorations in parametric design.

Darco ( CDMX, México ) invites you to join their Grasshopper Workshop in October led by RhinoFabStudio Director and Rhino & Grasshopper specialist, Andres Gonzalez! 

The workshop is addressed to architects, product designers, jewelers, and designers in general. Participants will be able to create their own definitions in order to speed up the design in their respective areas of work. In addition, exciting topics like “Data Tree” will be presented.

Basic knowledge of Rhino is required to take this course.

Rhino is a great exchange platform, presents almost everywhere in naval architecture or marine engineering fields, and a wide open ecosystem allowing developer’s community to add themselves their own functionalities. Based on this observation, the idea is to create Grasshopper tools applied to ship design, with the addition of several modules. The purpose is to do direct internal computations using Rhino API functions for common needs of the naval architect, but also to create bridges between external specialized software by optimizing interoperability and data exchanges.

Main features developed are hydrostatics computation, meshing export to flow simulations, transverse section export to MARS2000, resistance prediction using HOLTROP and SAVITSKY methods, or data export to NAVCAD. Additional tools are provided for lines plan drawing, or NACA section generation, and more will come up.

All this work started in the frame of an academic research project, and has led to the release of NEMO plugin for Grasshopper.

Here is a fun product from a Rhino user, Handy Camel. It's their contribution to combating global warming with water conservation.

The Garden Thorn is simply a spike made of recycled plastic. It's a nifty irrigation device that injects water three to six inches underground and eliminates runoff and evaporation, so plants get the water they need at the roots.

The Garden Thorn spike is placed in the ground, not on the surface like soaker hoses. There is no runoff or evaporation.

 
It is an easy to use, underground irrigation system requiring:

• A garden hose
• A rubber mallet to protect the thorn when tapping into the ground
• A hose end-cap for one end of the hose

The spike is hammered in the ground near the plant. When snapped in place, the needle at the top of the Garden Thorn punctures the hose. The pressurized water is injected down into the spike and out a hole at the bottom, watering the roots and soil directly around the plant.