STUDIO AIR

Past experience with Rhino Through several architectural design studios, Rhinoceros has been an important tool to do modelling, rendering and to express my ideas in the design presentations. I am a type of person that is not great at computer related stuff. I have tried to experience through and continued to improve myself in using and controlling architectural software.

The first time I was introduced to Rhinoceros was in my first year subject called Virtual Environments. Believe it or not, I was so scared at that time when the subject actually requires students to work on a design process in which they transform an 3D physical model into a digital presentation of that form using Rhino to panel and do modelling. First year student with an overwhelmed feeling when I had to get to use many different softwares that I had never had a single idea of them beforehand. However, throughout the process, I was amazed at how a computing tool can aid us that much in creating and transforming our design into a digital model and finally bringing it to life by making a physical model of it.

Apart from Rhinoceros, I have been developing my skills in several computer-aided design software such as Revit, Photoshop, Indesign, 3ds Max. Especially, I have never thought of persuading grasshopper as a aided tool in my future career since I have been receiving advices from other graduated architecture students that it is not popular in Vietnam to use grasshopper to make a digital model and parametric design has still been something uncommon in architecture field in Vietnam. However, once I got to know grasshopper and was introduced about parametric design, I have got a feeling that it is what I want to persuade in the future.