A Wave of Change - 5 Years of RatLab India with Sushant Verma | AG 25

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5 Years of RatLab India

On this episode, you will get to listen to Design Entrepreneur, Architect, Computational Designer & Educator, Sushant Verma, as he shares his roller-coaster journey of 5 Years with RatLAB Studio. Sushant is a very special guest as he was one of the fitst guests on the show and he never fails to amaze us with all the various endeavors he has going for himself. If you would like to listen to the first two episodes, you can head to archgyan.com/02 wherein he shares his journey in Architecture right from the get-go and is packed with a lot of useful information. In this episode, he shares what’s changed in the 5 years of running RatLAB, top 5 technologies, projects they worked on and tools they developed. His take on Finch3D and design automation, starting off on your own too soon versus working for somebody, travel tales and travelling & conducting workshops in over 20+ cities, SMART Labs workshops, resources to learn computational design and loads more. You can jump to certain sections with the Podcast shownotes below. 

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

Top 5 Design & Research Companies

• 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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