Note: this is the second part of a four-part tutorial on the parametric tower. You can find the first part here. If you want to pick up where the last exercise left off, you can download the model here. In this exercise, we will continue to develop our tower model…

In Grasshopper, DataTrees are used to organize data in more complex structures than a single ordered List. An easy way to think of DataTrees is as a collection of Lists. …

At the heart of any Grasshopper definition is the data. Grasshopper components process and create data, while wires transport the data between different components. In the last exercise, you may have already noticed that some wires look different from each other. This is because the visualization of the wire changes…

In this tutorial, we will construct a tower model controlled by a set of parameters in Grasshopper. In this first of four exercises, we will focus on the basic form of the tower. Step 1: Design concept and strategy As with any design process, when approaching a new computational design problem it is useful to spend…

Most of Grasshopper’s interface is focused on the canvas, which is where you compose your definitions by laying out the components and connecting them with wires. …

All Grasshopper definitions are composed of only two kinds of elements: components which hold data and perform tasks, and wires that pass data between the components. Using these two elements, we can define complex systems as assemblies of smaller parts working together to achieve a common goal. Components Components are the…

Let’s dive right in and build something cool in Grasshopper. Learning new software can be a difficult and laborious process, especially with a more technical and analytical tool such as Grasshopper. The best way to stay motivated is to devote enough time during your training process to actually working with…

👋 Hi there and welcome! This course will teach the foundations of computational design through the design tool Grasshopper. What is Grasshopper? Grasshopper is a computational design tool that works with the CAD program Rhino. It allows you to create designs not by modeling the geometry directly, but by defining…

A critical aspect of architectural design is understanding the way people move through and experience a space. Because such experiences tend to be subjective, they have traditionally been difficult to simulate in the computer. However, by treating the problem more narrowly, we can come up with ways of measuring specific…