Plant Kit Deep Dive Workshop
There are many challenges to executing a performant planting design in the sort of time frames that most designers work within. Even the best designs struggle to take every environmental factor and design decision into consideration, which is why the LANDAU team developed Plant Kit. Using generative tools and computational power, Plant Kit allows you to build workflows which integrate analysis, design decisions, and rapid iteration to realize your planting design efficiently and effectively using conceptual plants or real life plant data!
The Plant Kit Deep Dive will focus on workflows and techniques that will allow you to explore how to create and iterate through your planting design and documentation. Learn how to utilize computational power to simultaneously incorporate multiple factors into your designs such as ecosystem services, long-term sustainability/survivability, design-driven placements, and more. These sessions will encourage you to follow along and engage in interactive demos to gain greater insight into Plant Kit’s functionality!
Details
Each 3-hour workshop session is divided into two main segments. The first segment will focus on understanding and setting up workflows then getting used to the range of tools available in Plant Kit. The second segment will focus on more advanced workflows, showcasing more unique tools to set up your planting layout, design and documentation. Participants will be given exclusive access to presentation materials, live instructional demos, and interactive work time with direct assistance from our team. Many Plant Kit features and functionality are FREE. But, all participants will be provided with a 90-day Land Kit Pro license to explore Land Kit pro features beyond the workshop. *For Rhino on Windows only.
Instructors:
Ben Summay, LANDAU
Zuzanna Drozdz, WRT
Chris Landau, LANDAU
Our Learning Objectives:
Plant Kit is a tool specifically designed to evolve your planting design workflow by packaging essential modeling and design functions into a suite of tools that take a different approach than any other software today. This deep dive workshop is designed for users with basic knowledge of Rhino and Grasshopper, although new users are welcome to join to gain more knowledge of how this new tool set could expand their current methods of planting design. The primary goals of this workshop include showing the full range of uses for the free and Pro components while engaging users interactively and giving participants the chance to engage the team to find ways that Plant Kit can address the challenges of the modern planting designer. Design challenges will be structured to give participants the ability to work with provided geometry or create their own to test how components work independently and within a workflow.
Plant Kit places plants based on environmental factors that you choose.
Participants will leave the workshop with a deep understanding of Plant Kit as well as methods for linking these techniques to your existing computational design workflow. Participants will understand
How plant can be used as blocks for documentation in CAD
How these plant blocks can translate to nodes in rendering software like Lumion
How to visualize growth over time and bloom over the course of the year.
How to use the plant schedule component
We hope you are eager to learn and to share in your enthusiasm for the future of planting design with us!
And if you are really excited, you can get started with Plant Kit today.
Hope to see you soon!!
♥ The Land Kit Team @ LANDAU
