GBBN

GBBN are an architecture practice with offices in Beijing, Cincinnati, Louisville, Minneapolis & Pittsburgh

GBBN used AR to present the design of a Medical ICU fit-out on the 12th floor of UK HealthCare’s Chandler Hospital. This process significantly increased participant engagement as we stood within the shell of the space. A myriad of comments like, “oh… that’s what that would look like” or “that’s what the drawing meant…” made it clear that the end-users understood the design with more confidence. It’s one thing to know abstractly that patient rooms have windows of a given dimension that are located so far off the ground. It’s quite another experience to stand in the building core (where the central nursing station would be located) and look down the hall to see what kind of a view that provides.

Medical ICU Mockup with AR

Fologram’s software provides designers with a toolkit to create mixed reality experiences within design software they already use, and view and share these experiences through the Fologram app running on mobile phones or Microsoft's mixed reality headsets the Hololens.  Fologram’s clients include leading universities, multinational architectural firms, industrial designers, engineers and artists who using Fologram to create mixed reality applications for full scale construction, public art, architectural fabrication, sculpture, automotive design and visualisation.

Fologram is a software ecosystem that allows Mixed Reality hardware running our standalone application to talk to desktop design software running the Fologram plugin. Geometry and other model information from your design software is streamed to your headset or mobile phone, and spatial information like device or hand positions are sent back in real time. By using this spatial information to trigger changes in design models, designers can use Fologram to build interactive mixed reality experiences. 

A feature rich free mobile version is avaible at https://fologram.com/download, and a 14 day trial for Hololens users.


AllBrick using Fologram on the Hobart Hospital Redevelopment

Jack Hunter from Uni of Washington using Fologam for robotic control and path visualization 

Akio Hamada Architects & Eri Sumitomo Architects using Fologram to guide a chainsaw operator in producing furniture

UAP using Fologram in their production of large scale public art

Fologram

Artillion studio using Fologram as part of their fabrication process

Rhinoceros 3D is a 3D computer graphics and computer-aided design application software developed by the American company Robert McNeel & Associates. Utilizing NURBS mathematical modeling to produce precise representations of free-form, curving surfaces, Rhino is used in industries such as architecture, industrial design, automotive design, product design, and multimedia and graphic design.

Rhino 3D

Mountain Back - 3D printed Snowboard Binding

Slicelab

A concrete exploration using 3D printed molds with a goal to see how delicate, detailed, and finite concrete can get while still being structurally rigid. Ultimately the focus was to create a piece of furniture that embodies an optimal balance of delicateness in form and strength in dentistry. Using 3D printing as a new way to realize concrete through its ability to make molds, we have been interested in pushing the concretes’ natural limitation through fine geometries.

Delicate Density

Grasshopper is a visual programming language and environment that pairs with Rhino 3D, a software program also developed by Robert McNeel & Associates. Grasshopper allows users to build algorithms by dragging and connecting components on a digital canvas. From parametric modeling and fabrication, lighting performance analysis, to building energy consumption, Grasshopper provides an intuitive way to explore design without requiring programming experience.

Grasshopper

What is Maya?

Maya is professional 3D software for creating realistic characters and blockbuster-worthy effects.

Bring believable characters to life with engaging animation tools.

Shape 3D objects and scenes with intuitive modeling tools.

Create realistic effects—from explosions to cloth simulation.

Maya

AUDA (Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority)

Mummadpura Flyover project has been implemented by Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA) as a project management consultancy and Ranjit Buildcon as a general contractor. The aim of this project was to improve traffic management on the outer ring road of Ahmadabad city. 
In VisiLean, BIM model elements are linked to executable tasks, so any updates from site are applied to the model. It’s like a LIVE 4D representation of the construction project. This platform enables live monitoring and comfort for sharing data.

Another amazing VisiLean feature is enabling project managers get to review the Planned vs. Actual statue with a slider! Also by enabling real-time updates from site, you can get weekly and monthly progress reports (include progress updates, visualizations of project statue on the BIM model and site images) at the click-of-a-button. By VisiLean, the team can report on Constraints directly from the app; Therefore, the relevant stakeholders can take action and provide resolution.

source: https://visilean.com/bim-based-pmc-driving-infrastructure-development-a-case-study/


Mummadpura Flyover

 VisiLean is a construction planning and control application that includes BIM integration; While it can also be used for construction planning without BIM.

VisiLean

The Rail Implementers forum was established to allow railway stakeholders and software vendors to work together to test the implementation of the IFC 4.3 standard.  The forum was part of the  international project of BuildingSMART International to extend the IFC standard to the railway sector, the IFC Rail project, and the objective of the Forum was to test and validate the IFC 4.3 standard.

In this context, railway stakeholders, software vendors and IFC technical experts worked together to test the standard through some real life use cases. For each use case, the stakeholders supported by the experts defined information requirements (specification) for the BIM models and the software vendors produced the models according to those requierements.
regola was used both to create the model specification by selecting rules that described the expected content and behavior of the BIM models, and to validate the models against the specification.
The result was the production of high quality BIM models and the thorough testing of the IFC 4.3 standard. 


IFC Rail Implementers forum

regola is a web-based platform that allows clients to specify their information requirements , to share them with their suppliers and to validate openBIM models. 
The suppliers can check their IFC models against the specification provided by the client and the same can do clients when they receive the models.
The ultimate goal is to provide clear visibility over a specification, plus a validation capability available to both parties. This will allow to produce high quality BIM models.


regola

SoomeenHahn Design is a London based design studio that focuses on design research and practice.

SoomeenHahm Design

Fologram collaborated with SoomeenHahm Design, Igor Pantic, and Format Engineers to design and build Steampunk, the winning entry for the 2019 Tallinn Architecture Biennial installation competition. Fologram aided the team during fabrication and assembly.

Utilization of the timber/steel composite structure in Karamba3D/ Displacement analysis

Steampunk Pavilion

Karamba3D is a parametric structural engineering tool which provides accurate analysis of spatial trusses, frames and shells.

Karamba3D

Caddisfly Add-on for Grasshopper Main Poster

Ardaena: Network of Professionals 

This project was presented to Ardaena in 2018 by Vikonen Company from Turkey to create an alternative to the process of designing, optimizing and producing manufacturing parts for this project.

Proposal for an alternative design

Caddisfly is a series of tools for Complex Structures and Free Forms Detail Designing. The main idea has been based upon having the process from Conceptual Design, Analyze to Construction on Free Form Structures Automatically by less than 7 clicks. It is being developed by Python and C# both for a better flexibility up and running for different components.

The model and grid and nodes and profiles

Caddisfly: producing Space Structures Nodes & Bars in 3D formatted, for CNC Fabrication.

Caddisfly 

Kangaroo can generate structures in static equilibrium in a simple and intuitive way using dynamic relaxation. Once we have this equilibrium structure we can rearrange the force vectors to form such a reciprocal diagram. 

KANGAROO 

Ladybug Tools is a collection of free computer applications that support environmental design and education. Of all the available environmental design software packages, Ladybug Tools is among the most comprehensive, connecting 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) interfaces to a host of validated simulation engines.

Ladybug

A Custom Revit Add-in to automate the blockwork. It automatically converts walls to bricks. 
Tecomat’s main objective is to remain competitive by optimizing its internal design processes while delivering the best and quickest results to its clients.

After analyzing their Mansory design process, specifically the blockwork modeling in Revit, they concluded that placing brick by brick and fit them in the walls is a super inefficient and error-prone task that must be fully automated.

Reduction of production costs, increased efficiency, and quality gains were the objectives that led them to look for a bespoke solution.

Read more at: https://diroots.com/custom-software-development/case-studies/revit-automation-tecomat-custom-revit-add-in/

Tecomat - Custom Revit Add-in

👋 DiRoots is a Software Development Company specialized in the development of custom Autodesk, Bricsys, Bentley add-ins, web-based applications, and much more. 

DiRoots

This project is a 3D-Printed Steel Floor Prototype for a Lunar Habitat. It is a collaboration between the European Space Agency - ESA, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and MX3D. 

Read more at: 

https://www.fabbaloo.com/news/mx3d-3d-prints-prototype-lunar-habitat-floor

https://www.universetoday.com/152425/this-is-a-3d-printed-steel-floor-prototype-for-a-lunar-habitat/




Prototype Lunar Habitat Floor

With over 10.000 kg of metal 3D printed objects and over 40 man-years of experience since 2014, MX3D is the company that brought large-scale robotic wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) and its market to life and made enabling 3D metal printing more flexible, faster and cheaper.

Now, MX3D is ready to transform the market further by launching the first dedicated robotic WAAM software enabling companies, engineers and designers to print end-to-end large-scale 3D metal objects in-house.

MX3D became immediate innovation leader in 3D metal printing by presenting its jaw-dropping 12 meter long fully functional 3D printed stainless steel pedestrian bridge which will soon be installed in the heart of Amsterdam.

MX3D

Planeamento e Projectos de Engenharia (PPE) is a company actively looking forward to improving their internal processes, saving time, and cutting off their production costs. Being an engineering company focused on structural design projects, one of the most time-consuming and repetitive tasks is structural framing reinforcement detailing workflow. DiRoots created a Custom Revit Add-in that brought over 90% time-savings to our client compared to their traditional workflows relying on the native Revit functionalities. Read more at: https://diroots.com/custom-software-development/case-studies/revit-automation-ppe-custom-add-in/

Automation for Structural Detailing

A custom Revit add-in to automate section views creation and reinforcement detailing, including annotation/tagging and dimensioning. This is a product created to address our client's specific needs. If you want to develop a tool for your company request a quote at: https://diroots.com/custom-software-development/

Revit Add-in by Diroots

FBR Limited (ASX:FBR) is an Australian robotic technology company developing and commercialising digital construction solutions to address global needs. The Company’s first application is Hadrian X®, a revolutionary robotic blocklaying machine and system.

FBR has completed construction of its first two storey structure using the Hadrian X® construction robot.

The structure was built on FBR’s premises in a building style commonly found around the world in developing markets, including in key FBR markets such as Mexico, the MENA and GCC region and throughout Asia. This is the first time FBR has demonstrated the Hadrian X®’s ability to build two storey structures, as well as working with design elements like steel reinforced concrete columns, suspended concrete slabs and rebar. 

Two Storey Structure 

Hadrian X® is the world’s first mobile robotic blocklaying machine and system, capable of safely working outdoors in uncontrolled environments with speed and accuracy. 

Hadrian X® builds block structures from a 3D CAD model, producing far less waste than traditional construction methods while dramatically improving site safety. 

Hadrian X® is capable of building the walls of a house in situ in as little as a day, with no human hand touching a brick.

Hadrian X® by FBR

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Medical ICU Mockup with AR

GBBN

Delicate Density

Slicelab

Mummadpura Flyover

AUDA (Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority)

IFC Rail Implementers forum

Steampunk Pavilion

SoomeenHahm Design

Proposal for an alternative design

Ardaena: Network of Professionals

Tecomat - Custom Revit Add-in

Prototype Lunar Habitat Floor

SOM

Automation for Structural Detailing

Two Storey Structure

FBR

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