# Wasp courses

> **PAACADEMY offers online courses teaching the Wasp Grasshopper plugin, enabling architects to design complex spatial configurations using rule-based discrete aggregation and modular assembly.**

Wasp is a Grasshopper plugin for discrete aggregation design, implementing rule-based assembly of modular components into larger spatial configurations. It provides tools for defining modules with connection geometry and aggregation rules, and then generating assemblies where those modules combine according to the rules into complex spatial structures. Wasp is heavily used for prefabricated modular architecture and voxel-based structures.

At PAACADEMY, Wasp plays a crucial role in _BIM and Rhino.Inside for Advanced Tower Design_ by Albert Sumin, where modular logic meets BIM execution:

- **Discrete Aggregation:** Taking a single architectural component (like a balcony or facade panel) and distributing it across a tower based on strict adjacency rules.
- **Rule-Based Assembly:** Ensuring that no two incompatible geometries collide during the aggregation process.
- **BIM Transition:** Aggregating complex geometry in Rhino/Grasshopper and seamlessly transferring the modular logic to Revit via Rhino.Inside.

## At a glance

- Software hub: Wasp
- Courses listed: 2
- Canonical: https://paacademy.com/software/wasp

## Courses

- [BIM & Rhino.Inside  for Advanced Tower Design](https://paacademy.com/course/bim-rhinoinside-for-advanced-tower-design)
- [BIM & Rhino.Inside for Advanced Modular Design](https://paacademy.com/course/bim-rhinoinside-for-advanced-modular-design)

## FAQ

### What is Wasp and how does it work in Grasshopper for modular design?

Wasp is a Grasshopper plugin for discrete aggregation design, where modules with defined connection geometry and rules combine into larger complex assemblies. It is used for prefabricated modular architecture, rule-based facade panel systems and spatial aggregation studies. At PAACADEMY, it is taught in _BIM and Rhino.Inside for Advanced Tower Design_ by Albert Sumin for complex facade generation and tower detail design with Revit BIM integration.

### What does BIM and Rhino.Inside for Advanced Tower Design cover at PAACADEMY?

_BIM and Rhino.Inside for Advanced Tower Design_ by Albert Sumin is a 16-hour intermediate course across 22 lessons covering: project organization using BIM technology; generating complex facades and details in Rhino and Grasshopper using Wasp for modular aggregation; and utilizing Rhino.Inside to transfer geometry and parameters between Rhino and Revit for BIM coordination and documentation.

### How does Wasp differ from Monoceros for modular design in Grasshopper?

Wasp implements rule-based discrete aggregation where modules combine according to connection geometry rules into complex assemblies. Monoceros implements the Wave Function Collapse algorithm, a constraint-satisfaction approach where connector rules determine which modules can be placed adjacent to each other across a spatial field. At PAACADEMY, Wasp is applied to tower facade and detail generation while Monoceros is applied to modular spatial structure design.