I’m Tom and I’m an architect. I’m based in Copenhagen but used to live in London and Canada before that. I am due to defend my PhD sometime this fall, which is about developing a digital material practice in free-form timber structures - mostly using curvy, bendy glulams (or “woodles” ). It is also part of the same EU-funded research network that @dimitrie is part of, which is how I got mixed up in this business.
I develop SpeckleBlender and PySpeckle (along with @izzylys and @antoine). I’m keen to see more interoperability and new and exciting workflows between design modelling, visualization, material behaviour, and digital fabrication. I work a lot with CNC machines, robotic arms, 3d scans, and glue.
I’ve recently also released GluLamb - a toolkit for modelling free-form glulam structures - which is available on Food4Rhino as a Grasshopper plug-in. I’m also thinking about how these modelling tools could effectively interface with Speckle, and how Speckle could be leveraged to make great early-stage design tools for architects, engineers, and timber fabricators.
Isn’t that the… 4th (?) round of introductions? well… at least this time the thread won’t get swallowed by sneaky greedy slack … so here am I:
My name is Paul, I think Speckle is really cool and like to do stuff with it. I’ve been following its evolution since circa 2017 when @dimitrie was still developing it during InnoChain, while I was doing my PhD (which I successfully defended last April on Zoom thx to covid-19 yay !) that involved some Speckle-based “experiments” (please refer to the methodology chapter to understand what an “experiment” means ) - so kinda the same story as Tom.
After a year and a half at UCL working on some deltas and Speckle papers (check out the “References” tab in the latter) and some weird holidays , I am starting in less than 24 hours at Gensler London as part of their Design Technology studio. Really looking forward to this new journey which should () include some Speckle and McNeel magic that @luis mentioned above !
Regarding the what-I-like-to-do-when-I’m-not-reading-stackoverflow bio part, I like hiking and bouldering whenever I can, and dream of walking the entire PCT one day, so if I ever disappear you know where to (not) find me
Ha! At least I managed to beat you to it! You, and you only, are now obliged to adress me and @pauldotnet starting with “Dr.”.
Great to see both you and @pauldotnet participating in what practically is second or third introduction round
Not quite the 4th. I hope. Anyway, why are we doing this again? The previous n round of intros were done on slack, and they disappeared behind the 10k messages paywall - which, to be honest, felt quite sad.
TBH, I my first reaction was also “wait, another intros round?” - and both @izzylys and @teocomi heckled me until I wrote something. And I’m not regretting it - I love how many pet pictures we’re getting in!
This was Spooky, the majestic Stefanescu Family Guardian. She sadly passed away last autumn at the ripe age of 17 and I’m still missing her one year later!
I’m Cyril, graduated in energy and thermal engineering, working as an HVAC/energy engineer in my own company of 2 people and currently do research work related to energy and IFC at EPFL. I have been working on Revit, FreeCAD and getting into Blender. I am trying to contribute to Open Source Architecture community innitiative (OSArch) I am just starting to explore Speckle trying to figure out how it could enhance interoperability.
My first programming language was the ugly VBA behind Excel (except if you count HTML). I am now programming mostly in python. I created pyRevitMEP a MEP extension for the great pyRevit and I am trying to share some stuff I learned on my blog.
Great to see such a strong commitment to OSS, I confess I should be learning more about FreeCAD and Blender too
Hope the community will be of help in your explorations, and feel free to share anything you’ve done with Speckle in the #general:made-with-speckle category if you’d like.
Hi all, happy to be here. My name is Danil. Like many of you, I studied architecture and practiced for a few years, but always been obsessed with computation and creating new tools. I worked for five years at Autodesk Research, focusing on automation, Generative Design, Machine Learning. After leaving ADSK I wrote an open-source optimization plugin for Grasshopper as a side project and to support my own work and teaching. Earlier this year I started as CTO of Deluxe Modular, working with a great team of designers, developers, and researchers to build our own in-house tools for managing the lifecycle of our buildings (planning → design → construction → management).
I met Dimitrie some years ago at a workshop (I think SimAUD, in Delft, I believe… ) where I spent a day in a room with him learning what Speckle was all about. Since then I’ve been really interested in the project and glad to see how it’s progressed. We’ve started to use the Speckle viewer on our front-end, and poking around with the Revit plugin as well. Looking forward to bugging you guys and getting to know you more as we keep hacking.
I’m a big believer in open source and the importance of designers being involved in creating their own tools. Glad to be here, and happy to share ideas, experiences, and code with this community. When I’m not working (which is constantly) I’m working on my own renovation project, which is teaching me a lot about how not to do architecture .
Hi everyone! Just realised I hadn’t formally introduced myself yet!
My name is Alan Rynne and I recently joined the Speckle team to help make Speckle 2.0 a reality! As for my background, I studied Building Engineering with a Master’s Degree in Parametric Design for Architecture. I taught myself how to code through out university and never stopped since. Over the years I’ve done quite a bit of C# and some full-stack web development.
I’ve played around with Speckle in personal and professional projects, while also trying to introduce it to my students whenever possible.
Looking forward to meeting you all and help out in any way possible!
Hi, everyone! I am jumping in from the Green Mountains of Vermont, USA, on the border with Quebec and with a very rare perspective as a wood structure and CAD/CAM veteran who now has a cross-border professional role with the nonprofit member group QWEB, or Quebec Wood Export Bureau. We’re committed to open BIM, developing standards and collaboration protocols for the wood industry, and our members are a quiet but really productive and capable practice community. I’m not an advanced coder at all but have led some good dev teams as an informal architect/wood structure veteran/generalist and our current project is a free Plug-In for Revit. I came here first last year for a sense of where the open source AEC community could go, and it’s not only stayed on my radar but grown to the point I’m glad to jump in and learn some more. Thanks for the great work and sorry in advance for some basic questions I’m sure to ask!
Great to hear you are using the viewer as part of your tech stack, would love to chat about how to make the rest of Speckle useful too As mentioned on slack, we’re revamping our connectors, so expect a shiny new Revit plugin soon
I’m pleased to hear about your commitment to open BIM and standards! Our community could definitely benefit from your experience in the wood industry, maybe you could help us develop a Speckle Kit for wood structures ?
Anyways, hope you both enjoy the forum, any questions just ask!
Welcome Danil! The work with Deluxe Modular looks really interesting and from nearby in SoVt there may be some chances to team up. I might even be tempted to bring down some heavy timber brackets to hold up the soffits on that overhang long enough to discuss further…good luck and welcome to this community!
Hey Everyone,
My name is Ritesh, I am working with CAD and BIM industry from couple of years. Have tried to develop the visualization APP for the mesh geometry and having expertise in the CAD and BIM interoperability. I am currently evaluating the speckle for one of cloud work flow that designing using the Revit and Rhino reader of speckle. I am impressed with the cool feature that @dimitrie & @teocomi developed and keep up the good work that you guys are doing. I will ping you with suggestion and findings whenever required.
this is Mucahit from Turkey. I am an architect from graduation. I was obsessed with automation and computational design using visual programming and started learning programming as a hobby. What started as a hobby is about to turn into a career now. Right now, I am doing my masters in building and city informatics.I have just discovered Speckle and got really excited about the idea. I will try to implement it in my work process. Glad to be here. Hope we can share ideas and experiences in the community. See you around
Awesome seeing Speckle being used all around the globe I’m really excited to have you here and I’m looking forward seeing what you’ll build with Speckle
Hi everyone, time for a community introduction! I’m Claire , I recently joined Speckle as a software engineer after a few years of working on complex geometry computation and mass model conversions at Gehry Technologies in Los Angeles.
I got into coding as part of an effort to apply my math background to a masters in architecture, and investigated ways of using graph theory techniques to traverse meshes and typologize geometry at Certain Measures. In the process, I became deeply interested in the role of data (mis)communication as perpetuated by digital models during the highly idiosyncratic and sometimes painful reality of building buildings - a problem we’re tackling here at Speckle!
When I’m not evangelizing the idea that good architecture really means good data structures, I’m probably playing with my weirdo cat, training muay thai, making artsy things, or reading postmodern theory. Obligatory pet tax below
Hello everyone.
My name is Bernardo, I am from Colombia, South América.
I am a Computer Engineer with some experience in Software Engineering, web development (Django web framework) and now working as a Platform Engineer at Royal HaskoningDHV in The Netherlands.
I’ve been getting into the DevOps world for about 2 years on a daily basis work where I am seeking to adopt the Site Reliability Engineering mindset sharing the ownership of the products with developers teams, having more control over infrastructure and operation problems, and software lifecycle maintenance.
When I am not working, I am taking care of my gorgeous 6 months old baby, cycling or reading about the technology stack world I would like to learn or work on.
Mostly doing Finite Element Analysis, specially used for rapid prototyping. Even more specially I am interested in solid Finite Element Analysis. Huge fan of open source software and peace in the world.
Hobby: trying to survive growing up of my daughters.
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