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CAAD futures 2009: FREE solidThinking Workshop “Computational Inspiration and Exploration”, June 15th, Montreal, Canada

caad09Arcitects and product designers are in constant search of inspiration.

Architectand product designers are in constant search of inspiration.
Nature has always been a source of inspiration, and particularly biological forms. While biological forms tend to be aestheticallyinteresting, they also tend to be efficient and highly functional because they are the product of environmental pressures. 
Today, new technologies enable architects and product designers to simulate some of the processes and physical laws in nature with software algorithms, thus helping to generate forms in response to environmental stimuli.
What challenges and opportunities arise from defining environmental conditions and interpreting the forms that are generated? How do methods such as these complement traditional methods?
The FREE half day workshop will describe, with practical and visual examples, exciting new methods that have now emerged for architects and designers to generate and explore forms that are aesthetically interesting, often unexpected, and at the same time well adapted to their intended function.
Each participant should bring their own laptop.
Attendees at this workshop will be granted a 3-month license to solidThinking and the new morphogenesis™ form generation technology which will be unveiled for the first time during CAADFutures 2009. and product designers are in constant search of inspiration.  

Nature has always been a great source of inspiration, and particularly biological forms. While biological forms tend to be aesthetically interesting, they also tend to be efficient and highly functional because they are the product of environmental pressures.

Today, new technologies enable architects and product designers to simulate some of the processes and physical laws in nature with software algorithms, thus helping to generate forms in response to environmental stimuli.

What challenges and opportunities arise from defining environmental conditions and interpreting the forms that are generated? How do methods such as these complement traditional methods?

The FREE half day workshop will describe, with practical and visual examples, exciting new methods that have now emerged for architects and designers to generate and explore forms that are aesthetically interesting, often unexpected, and at the same time well adapted to their intended function.

Each participant should bring their own laptop.

Attendees at this workshop will be granted a 3-month license to solidThinking and the new morphogenesis™ form generation technology which will be unveiled for the first time during CAADFutures 2009.

Click here for registration details.

solidThinking User Emanuele Rodella receives a “Design and Build for Everyone” 2009 Award

Emanuele Rodella and Paolo De Lucchi won one of the six awards of the International Competition of Ideas entitled ‘Design and Build for Everyone’, an initiative – promoted by the  no-profit association “Lo Spirito di Stella” in partnership with Autogrill S.p.A., ADI (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale) and DFA (Design for All).

Architects and designers were invited to submit solutions for specific areas in Autogrill points of sale (counter, check out and toilets) in order to enhance comfort and functionality without sacrificing those elements of design vital to the elimination of psychological barriers between disabled and non-disabled people.

The competition grew out of the personal experience of Andrea Stella, a disabled yachtsman who designed the world’s first catamaran without architectural barriers – the ‘Spirito di Stella’.

Congratulations to Emanuele Rodella and Paolo De Lucchi. We show here some renderings of their awarded project, which was entirely developed in solidThinking.

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