SJM Studio Leeds

I have been using Visual Programming Tools in Architecture for over 10 years. They have been a tremendous help to me in my career and I wish to collect here some of my opinions on how I think they can best be used in the Architectural Design industry. Firstly I think it is useful to Read more

McNeel Europe the company behind the Rhino and Grasshopper software tools have recently released a new tool called Rhino.Inside. This tool brings the power and flexibility of Rhino/Grasshopper inside other software such as Revit. We at GS Arch use Revit on a daily basis and so I created a PPT to show my colleagues what Read more

On most projects the design team is made up of ourselves the Architects and other consultants such as M&E Engineers and Structural Engineers. We work in a collaborative way with these other consultants to deliver the design. This involves a lot of sharing of information. Often this is native models or IFCs but sometimes it Read more

On larger projects we often need to link multiple CAD drawings into the model. In Revit when you link CAD you can choose to link into a single view or the entire model. It is advisable for most workflows to link the CAD into a single view. However this does create the problem that some Read more

In this article I will discuss the various ways we have started to distribute Dynamo knowledge throughout GS Arch. We are using three different approaches to help people get to grips with this new tool. These three approaches are classes, homework assignments and focused presentations explaining a single workflow. To begin with I will discuss Read more

We here at GS have been investigating the use of Dynamo for the design stage of projects. In this article I will look at three designs for two projects where Dynamo was used to create the desired geometry. Project 1 – University Music Room The split mono-pitch roofs of this design were modelled in Dynamo. Read more