REGENERATIVE DIGITAL DESIGN FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

Year: 2023

Where: Online

Role: teacher

Intensive masterclass at ABITAlab on occasion of the INTENSIVE MASTERCLASS: REGENERATIVE DIGITAL DESIGN FOR CLIMATE CHANGE.
Grasshopper for architects, learning how to use VPL consciously without losing the control of the tool. Nature based solutions, exploring the complexity of the natural solutions using Grasshopper, Ladybug Tools and Morpho for ENVI-Met.

• Visual Programming Language
• Green roof | Trees
• Human thermal comfort and Energy Performance

Rhino User Meeting in Basel

Year: 2023

Where: Online

Role: speaker

McNeel Europe, in collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron, organized a Rhino User Meeting in Basel on the 17th March 2023.
My contribution was about a proposal of evaluating the microclimate contribution of the trees in an urban area that was developed by using the holistic calculation offered by ENVI-met. The workflow uses Morpho and Ladybug, two plugins for Grasshopper that can be used together for ENVI-met data investigation and visualization.

• Morpho for Rhino
• Sustainability

SOS, School of Sustainability

Year: 2022

Where: Online

Role: teacher

Two days of lessons at OS | School of Sustainability.
Providing the basic and advanced notions about outdoor thermal comfort and potential approach to simulate scenarios using Ladybug Tools and ENVI-Met.

• Urban street canyon
• Human thermal comfort
• Simulation with ENVI-Met

Summer School 2021, Studio

Year: 2021

Where: Rome, Italy

Role: teacher

Summer school at University of Arkansas on occasion of Studio.
The course is a Design Seminar with a specific focus on advanced environmental analysis and simulation performed by using parametric design tools based on Rhino’s integrated graphical algorithm editor Grasshopper and a series of specific plugins such as Ladybug Tools and OneClick LCA. LEED v.4.1 is used as a framework.

• Airport expansions and renovation
• Basic info about Comfort and Energy Performance in buildings
• Daylight analysis following LEED v.4.1

Urban microclimate analysis with Ladybug and Morpho

Year: 2021

Where: Online

Role: speaker

Online workshops at Politecnico di Milano (PoliMI).
Live demo about Environmental analysis investigation and sustainable design strategies for urban design . He was invited as a speaker

• Urban street canyon
• Human thermal comfort
• Simulation with ENVI-Met

EP 2021

Year: 2021

Where: Online

Role: teacher

Online workshops at University of Arkansas on occasion of EP 2021.
Providing the basic and advanced notions of parametric modeling with Grasshopper to combine with Ladybug Tools and Climatestudio to improve design of indoor and outdoor spaces. LEED v4 protocol is used like a framework to guide the analysis. The challenge is applying those criteria to Roman ancient buildings.

• Climate Data Analysis
• Basic info about Comfort and Energy Performance in buildings
• Analysis of the open spaces with Grasshopper following LEED v.4
• Rainwater management with Grasshopper following LEED v.4
• Daylight analysis following LEED Daylight Credit (LEED v.4)
• Building Energy Modeling - passive and active strategies

How to create a python plugin with Grasshopper

Year: 2020

Where: Online

Role: speaker

A webinar organized by P/N - Performance Network. I showed how to solve an urban design task in Grasshopper - firstly with visual programming, secondly with custom components based on functional programming and OOP programming of Python. Exploring the possibility to condense a long logic made by native Grasshopper components into a few lines of code step by step.

• VPL with conditional statements
• Grasshopper component: input/output, data type, icons
• Python: import keyword, variable, list and tuple, conditionals, function, inline loop, class, constructor, classmethod, method overriding and much more!

IDS 2020

Year: 2020

Where: Online (USA)

Role: teacher

Online workshops at University of Arkansas on occasion of IDS 2020. I teached sustainable design optimization using Ladybug Tools and ClimateStudio following the three-tier approach for efficient buildings.

• Climate Data Analysis
• Basic info about Comfort and Energy Performance in buildings
• Decisions about a building's orientation and massing
• Daylight analysis following LEED Daylight Credit (LEED v4)
• Building Energy Modeling - passive and active strategies

THINKING ARCHITECTURE WITH GRASSHOPPER - 5 compositional logics

Year: 2020

Where: Online (USA)

Role: teacher

An interesting online workshop at University of Arkansas. I teached Grasshopper to the students using exercises that I created starting from a short essay by Luca Zecchin called “the Four Compositions”. I have only added a latest kind of compositional logic "Organic | generative design". This idea of mine and prof. Francesco Bedeschi was a good demonstration about how to use Grasshopper:

• getting preliminary idea of the building without losing the control of the instruments, and use Grasshopper like a parametric 3D sketchbook
• learn compositional logics and Grasshopper simultaneously

The Youth Scholars Webinar on Urban Microclimate

Year: 2020

Where: Online (China)

Role: speaker

The Youth Scholars Webinar on Urban Microclimate was held for the first time in November 2018 and adhered to the concept of equality, pragmatism and openness at the beginning. The founder of the Webinar hopes to play a role of bridge, let ideas converge, promote technology communication and improve the research quality of building science. The webinar is conducted online to benefit more researchers.
I was invited as speaker to this second edition to talk about innovative tools for urban microclimate analysis.

ENVI_MET Winter Release 2018 & Grasshopper plugin for ENVI-MET

Year: 2018

Where: Online

Role: speaker

A webinair promoted by McNeel and organized Performance Network about Dragonfly envimet components that I developed. Some new features were showed during the live demos:

• Modeling 3D buildings with Rhino 6 and Grasshopper to generate ENVI-MET model areas
• Using EPW file to feed simulation file
• Generating SIM file

Ancient roman buildings with Grasshopper

Year: 2017

Where: Rome, Italy

Role: teacher, teaching assistant

An interesting short course at University of Arkansas Rome Center. This course was written by arch. Francesco Bedeschi and it was about possibility to replicate ancient roman buildings with Grasshopper.
I teached how to use Grasshopper to create ancient architectures and I supported the students till the end of the project.

Grasshopper Course

Year: 2016

Where: Termoli (CB), Italy

Role: teacher

A course to provide the basic notions of parametric modeling with Grasshopper. Some common tasks of parametric design and generative modeling were addressed through a series of exercises during the course.

• Graphic interface and basic concepts
• Points, Lines, Vectors
• Data management through lists
• Curves, Surfaces
• Points of attraction and Paneling
• Logic functions and mathematical functions
• Geometric transformations (rotate, scale, move)
• Deformations and Morphing
• Mesh and Smoothness
• Manufacturing
• Notions of 3D printing

Rhino Days - Rome

Year: 2016

Where: Rome, Italy

Role: speaker

Two days of workshops where the most up-to-date tools for architects and designers will be presented in the field of 3D digital modeling, parametric design, energy and environmental analysis, digital manufacturing and BIM. I was invited as speaker to talk about Ladybug Legacy, one of the best plugin for Grasshopper about environmental analysis.