Wasp

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.