SMART Solutions Network is the home of smart, realtime apps that enable optimum design, construction and operations of buildings and urban spaces.
Getting started on this site is easy:
1. Sign up. You can use your existing google, yahoo, or twitter account for speedy signup.
2. Become a member of SMART Form and / or SMART Move groups to download and learn these tools.
3. Follow others and share your thoughts in the discussion forums.
Membership is free, open to everyone, and allows you to download the following two tools currently downloadable as beta on this site.
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| SMART Form - Formfinding in realtime | SMART Move - crowd modelling in realtime |
Feel free to invite your colleagues and friends to join in.
Comments or suggestions via the discussion forums or by email to smart@burohappold.com.
Started by Richard Bazeley in SMART Form discussions. Last reply by Kevin Lair Mar 29, 2011. 10 Replies 0 Likes
Started by moe in SMART Move discussions. Last reply by Robert Hart Mar 25, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes
Started by Dr. Shrikant B. Sharma in SMART Move discussions. Last reply by Howard Williams Mar 24, 2011. 4 Replies 0 Likes
Posted by Christoph Gengnagel on January 7, 2012 at 23:30 1 Comment 0 Likes
Julian Lienhardt and I have started a new study group "active bending" as part as the Structural Morphology Group of the IASS. After the recent IASS conferences where subjects around elastic bending were scattered into different sessions and even parallel sessions, we felt the necessity to channel this interest into a newly focused study…
ContinuePosted by Sam Conrad Joyce on November 25, 2011 at 19:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
Al and I were involved in running a cluster at the recent Shape to Fabrication workshop in London.
Working alongside Rupert Maleczek (KOGE, Innsbruck university) and his innovative folded stripe method.
The aim was to work alongside three other teams using generative design software and digital fabrication techniques to produce a prototype theater. This cluster led by Buro Happold and KOGE looked at optimize the design of the lightweight roof using …
Posted by Dr. Shrikant B. Sharma on October 22, 2011 at 11:30 1 Comment 0 Likes
Buro Happold has won The Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) Yorkshire Branch, Structural Engineering Excellence - Building Award 2011 for Scunthorpe Sports Centre.
You will see a few visuals on this site that capture the process of formfinding and optimisation of this iconic pod geometry. SMART Form software played a significant part in the development of the…
ContinuePosted by Al Fisher on August 5, 2011 at 14:30 0 Comments 0 Likes
I'm happy to say we've uploaded another new beta release of SMART Form with some great new added features.
I hope you'll notice we've been working on improving the general user interface, speed and robustness of the tool, but also most excitingly we've added some completely new features.
One to have a play with is the new local control of properties through the use of Rhino layers. This means the stiffnesses and slack lengths across different parts of your model can be…
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