ABSTRACT
Contemporary architecture depends, in almost every way, on computer-aided technologies as assistance for hand-drawn designing skills. The faster processing of data reaches its exploitation peak on parametric design methods, which are slowly but surely turning into quite a powerful tool. There seems to be a lot of missed potential in that field, and thus the reason for the goal behind this work is to explore the advantages of that guild.
There are not-so-commonly-used organic parametric structural analyzers on the market. Very few, if any, have intuitive interfaces to achieve their goals practically (Table 1). This research aims to develop a basic tool for real-time structural analysis in Rhinoceros with Grasshopper through own contributed simplifications on form-finding methods. These procedures are intended to be possibly applied to a variety of shapes, such as natural organic shapes. The reason for that, is to check how naturally evolved shapes adapt themselves to structural demanding situations.
Colored or interactive visualization of results allow to observe flaws and deficiencies on the worked model, allowing an optimized parametric redefinition and correspondent constructive system as a final step before the final manufacturing process.
