5 Years of RatLab India
Podcast Shownotes
01:00 Intro
03:00 What’s changed the most in 5 years of Ratlab Studio?
05:00 Top 5 Technologies Ratlab has experienced over the years
08:20 Ratlab Team
09:20 Affiliation with Universities
10:00 Top 5 Computational Tools that Ratlab created & worked on
14:40 Finch 3D & Spatial Analysis. Using Generative Design
17:30 Top 5 Projects Ratlab Studio worked on
22:30 Collaboration with local companies on Projects
24:00 Business Challenges
25:30 Ratlab’s association with BIM
28:30 Creating Scripts as Architects
31:00 Top 5 Challenges Ratlab has faced & Adoption of latest technology in India
34:20 The Bell Curve
36:30 Top 5 Travel & Academic Experiences
40:20 Experience at Belarus
42:20 The SmartLAB workshop and what it entails
44:40 Design Conference in 2020 in RVS Institute of Architecture, Chennai.
48:00 How RatLAB started – A Recap
51:50 Top 5 Grasshopper Plugins
56:00 Top 5 Resources to get started with Computational Design
59:00 Top 5 Design & Research Companies
1:04:35 To start or not to start
1:09:00 Future Plans
Notable Mentions
- Computational & Parametric Design, Tool Development, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
- The Bell Curve
Tools Mentioned
- Spirorat
- Visibility of an Auditorium with ARCOP Architects
- Allows you to calculate the visibility of a seat in an Auditorium during the design process.
- Analyzing an Auditorium Seating
- Spatial Analysis Tools – Co-working Spaces for Oyo
- Optimizing the visibility of an Office Space & using generative design & computation to create spaces.
Projects Mentioned
- Temples & Hendecagons
- Experience Center in Noida for a Stone Factory – STL Files
- Corporate Office & Facade project with Urban Zen in Hyderabad
- Infosys Project in Bangalore with VA group
People Mentioned
- Abhishek Bij
- Arturo Tedeschi
- Mohammad Yazdi
- Michael Pryor
- Michael Bentley
Top 5 Plugins
- Spirorat
- Pufferfish
- Lunchbox
- Kangaroo – Physics Simulation & Form Finding
- Paneling Tool
Top 5 Resources
- Modelab Primer
- Arturo Tedeschi AAD – Alogirithimically Aided Design Book
- Parametric House by Mohammad Yazdi
- Zubin Khabazi’s Tutorials
- Rajaa Issaa’s Essential Mathematics for Computational Design
- MIT Media Lab
- ZHA Code led by Sajay Bhushan
- Computational Design Group at Fosters
- AI Space Factory
- HASSELL
- Design Research Lab AA
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