SideFX Houdini

PAACADEMY provides online courses on SideFX Houdini, teaching architects how to use procedural 3D modeling and physical simulation to generate highly complex, organic architectural forms.

SideFX Houdini is a procedural 3D modeling and simulation platform developed originally for visual effects that has increasingly been adopted in architecture for generating complex organic geometry, simulating physical systems, and building rule-based design workflows where form emerges from procedural logic rather than manual modeling.

At PAACADEMY, Houdini is taught across several advanced courses, prominently in ProBody Architecture 4.0 by Filippo Nassetti. In an architectural context, Houdini is used when standard parametric tools hit their geometric limits:

• Procedural Organic Modeling: Creating intricate, bio-inspired architectural forms, porous structures and complex lattices.
• Physical Simulation: Utilizing advanced particle and fluid dynamics to drive architectural form-finding.
• Data Exchange: Managing complex data flow between Houdini, Rhino and MakeHuman for multi-platform architectural pipelines.