Category: Rhino
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So iLL Rise hangboard
A hangboard made of wood is fabricated in a subtractive process and cutting away more material takes more time and thus raises the pricetag. Casting a plastic hangboard is the opposite. Thicker grips and rungs require more resin. The goal is simple, design a hangboard with as little material as possible. The Rise hangboard was…
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Beam optimization
Five huge timber vaults have been built for the 2021 Tianfu Agricultural Expo. StructureCraft created the production files for three of the vaults, Häring Timber Technology did the other two. The arches of the conical vaults all shared a similar buildup, yet all arches had different dimensions. The glulam beams were produced in Europe and…
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Knots
3D scanned with my Artec Leo. The AR animation is available on mobile devices. After the shoe scan shown above and my friend complaining about the quality of the shoe laces, I decided to experiment a bit. I had already simulated a simple knot in Rhino / Grasshopper with Kangaroo but that was a round…
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Jumpa maze
This 2.5 x 2 x 2 meter prototype with six cells was created to get a better feel for the size, test the chosen steel connector and to learn more about the assembly. The panels have been CNC cut. But, at the time, the algorithm for the hole placement was not quite ready so I…
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GRIP Climbing Biel
GRIP climbing is a new gym in Biel, Switzerland. I was commissioned to design all walls in close cooperation with the owners. This job is what started my search for an efficient algorithm that allows quick adaption of planes and edges on a climbing wall design. Bouldering walls 235 m² Indoor rope climbing walls 480…
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Cheeta volumes
In addition to a rework of the entire line of volumes I got to complement Laurent Laporte’s newly designed crack system. And the famous balls or “tranches d’oranges” needed to be resized for better fit when stacked. All volumes got a fresh number. Sizes and angles were exported into a huge Excel sheet. For better…
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Meiringen Boulder World Cup Wall
In 2017 I got the chance to develop and design a modular competition wall for the Meiringen Boulder World Cup and the National Training Center of the Swiss Alpine Club. The simple design offers maximum freedom for the setters, allowing the placement of big features and volumes. The sectors of the wall are large enough…
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So iLL flatpack volumes
We’ve been talking about flatpack volumes five years prior but now it was time to get some prototypes made. Many methods were tested and So iLL decided to go with very simplistic volumes with 90° edges only. Read more…
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Ensphere Dome Model
During my employement at Häring & Co. AG between 2014 and 2017, I got to build some really amazing models of building structures. This particular dome model is assembled of mostly hexagonal laser sintered parts which have been glued into one single object and covered with a translucent twill fabric.
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Jet Sigi Promodel
In 2012 and 2013 I got to redesign and tweak nearly the entire Jet lineup. And then it was time to design my new promodel with Jet. The board was supposed to be made of relatively thick veneers bonded with dry sheets of hot melt and various layers of uni directional carbon. The molds required…