STF#9 - 2025: Presentations
Data-storage experiments for managing complexity in timber projects
Mule Studio
Mule Studio
Geometry. Geometry and attributes. Geometry and attributes as a whole: data.
Those attempting to build ambitious projects have often represented their designs with a combination of geometry and attributes. This combined data has also been stored in many ways: drawings, scale models, digital models... For parametrically driven projects, how can we store this data created throughout the design process so that modelling is not suppressed by the project complexity?
We will discuss and analyse 3 different techniques Mule Studio has crafted over the past 10 years to help deliver complex timber structures. A journey into digital systems and solutions you can set up for your projects, from serialised data to geometry-first storage to the use of cloud platforms like Speckle.
Images (top and above) ©StructureCraft
Harri Lewis - Harri is an engineer and designer. He developed and worked within computational design teams at Ramboll and Foster + Partners before founding Mule Studio in 2016. He has worked on many large scale complex timber projects, bespoke software and small scale architecture. He is interested in delivering elegant projects by combining mathematics, engineering and design.
Gianluca Tabellini - Gianluca started using Grasshopper in Rhino 4. He grew Mycelium to explore its tectonics and briefly worked as a parametric designer in architectural firms. Then, for almost 10 years, he has written code to build, manufacture and assemble large complex timber projects including the Swatch-Omega HQ in Biel (Switzerland) and Tianfu Agricultural Centre in Chengdu (China). He also collaborates on software projects like Branch 3D (StructureCraft) and web-apps for various clients.
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