ReBrick Lay

Grasshopper Plugin | 2022
Scripting & Parametric Design | (MSSD) Carnegie Mellon University
Tools: Rhino, Grasshopper, & Gh Python | Type of Work: Teamwork with Sanjana Nagraj

The project goal was to design and develop a custom Grasshopper Plugin, a toolkit that can support complex, repeated, or laborious design processes and helps designers explore diverse design solutions.

Various brick patterns created from reclaimed bricks by using custom Grasshopper Plugin tool

For this assignment, we focused on the circular economy. Almost 20% of C & D waste comprises bricks and more than 75% goes to landfills. There are many limitations in reusing these reclaimed bricks, which makes it difficult to use them. Thus, we created a customized plugin using ghPython, which can take the data of these reclaimed bricks and help designers, architects, and engineers to visualize n number of patterns and return an exact number of bricks used from each batch of bricks for it. This can not only reduce construction waste but encourage a circular economy in the building industry.

The algorithm for the plugin is divided into 6 parts from input to output.

The following video will demonstrate the geometric logic and the custom plugin components in detail.

Demonstration of the Grasshopper Plugin

YouTube link to the video: https://youtu.be/-qUj-xfQrp8

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