Schedule

Summary

Detailed summary

Friday - June 26th

• Participants to receive installation and setup instructions

• Encouraged but not required: print PDF of the workshop content on Gitbook, to make the tutorials easier to follow along

Monday - June 29th

• Participants to install RV2 on their own following the instructions on the workshop web page, and ask for help if not successful

Tuesday - June 30th

09:00 - 11:00 GMT - Introduction

• Short presentations by the instructors

  • Block Research Group

  • Thrust Network Analysis + rhinoVAULT

  • COMPAS + BRG Code + RV2

• Outlook and overview of the workshop

12:00 - 14:00 GMT - Tutorial 1/5: RV2 basics

• RV2 workflow summary and overview

• Basic RV2 tutorial

14:00 - 16:00 GMT - Project work session 1/3

• Introduce design project

• Start developing concepts and ideas - implement what was learned that day

Wednesday - July 1st

09:00 - 11:00 GMT - Tutorial 2/5: Force patterns

• Explore methods for create patterns (focus on the pros/cons of each method)

• Define boundary conditions

• Create form diagram

12:00 - 14:00 GMT - Tutorial 3/5: Steering forces

• Create force diagram (importance of link between force pattern and design/application intent)

• Horizontal equilibrium

• Controlling forces (modifying force diagrams)

• Example: barrel/cross vault

14:00 - 16:00 GMT - Project work session 2/3

• Develop strategies for generating force patterns (which method is more appropriate for the context and design intent?)

Thursday - July 2nd

09:00 - 11:00 GMT - Session 4/5: Additional features

• Drop downs

• Various display modes

• Saving and opening .rv2 session files

• use the mesh datastructure of the diagrams to explore extended applications

• modifying settings

12:00 - 14:00 GMT - Tutorial 5/5: Materialisation

• RV2 + COMPAS part 1: Material distribution

  RV2 + COMPAS part 2: Discretisation

• RV2 + COMPAS part 3: Fabrication

14:00 - 16:00 GMT - Project work session 3/3

• Develop strategies for materialisation and fabrication

Friday - July 3rd

09:00 - 11:00 GMT - Project presentations 1

12:00 - 14:00 GMT - Project presentations 2

14:00 - 16:00 GMT - Project presentations 3

16:00 GMT - Closing