Organic Architecture with Generative art

Learn about organic architecture and embrace a unique perspective on building design that merges with the environment.

• Introduction
• The Research Process
• Houdini’s Terrain Tools
• The Grid and Volume Trail
• Creating Horizontal Slabs
• Making the Vertical Elements
• The Last Steps: Exporting and Rendering
• Final project

‘I am constantly inspired by nature, geological formations, patterns, repetition and natural aesthetics.’

Introduce nature and biology to your architectural forms with the architect and generative designer, Chantal Matar. She has developed a unique and distinct style that stems from her passion for art, and her experience with avant-garde studios such as Zaha Hadid Architects. She recreates shapes in nature in her product and building designs using generative art techniques. Exploring the powerful software Houdini and its trail system, which are vectors that follow an organic path as they form, Chantal gives her pieces an important spatial dimension.

In this online course, learn with her how to develop organic architectural shapes using a procedural workflow and focusing on mineral formations. Set up an environment for your project, identify the structural base, and then put together a whole building.

• About Me
• Influences
• What Is Organic Architecture?
• Drawing Inspiration from Nature
• Sketching: Conceptualizing the Idea
• Building Terrain with Height Fields
• Understanding Grid Parameters and Applying Noise
• Setting up the Grid
• Setting up the Volume Trail
• Applying the Volume Trail
• Basic Coding: The Attribute Wrangle Node
• Generating Repeating Patterns
• Converting the Abstract Trails to Solid Forms
• Regrouping the Vector Trails
• Point Displacement and Complex Coding
• Developing Repetition for the Vertical Elements
• Merging the Nodes
• Converting the Outcome Into a Solid Representation
• Exporting the Project Into Different Platforms
• Rendering In KeyShot
• Organic Architecture with Generative Art