Hive-Bombyx team attends the Rhino User Meeting in Basel

Written By Alessandra Gabaglio

On Friday 17th March, the Hive-Bombyx team attended the Rhino User Meeting organized by McNeel in collaboration with Herzog de Meuron.

Hive is a grasshopper plugin that helps understand the performative consequences of architectural design decisions on energy efficiency, comfort, cost and emissions, without needing to bother with the many technicalities and details that come with fully-fledged simulation programs.

Bombyx is a design-integrated tool for real-time Life cycle assessment (LCA), which was created to facilitate the use of LCA during the early design stage of a building. Bombyx is based on the 3D software Rhinoceros and Grasshopper as a visual programming language.

Recently, Hive and Bombyx were merged, allowing full assessment of design choices during the early design stage.

Alessandra Gabaglio
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