Most structural engineers are not comfortable dealing with bamboo as the strength parameters are not known enough.Ī regular truck hydraulic jack, a pressure gauge and a few planks. Here is where Karamba could become useful for bamboo structural design and analysis of behavior under stress. Karamba allows for detailed definitions of element dimensions, load case scenarios (weight, wind, earth quake etc), position of supports and material strength properties. Karamba, by Clemens Preisinger, Vienna (is a structural modeling toolbox which turns Grasshopper lines into beams/trusses and surfaces/meshes into shells. Intuitively, this additive programming seems much like playing with plastic Lego parts and should fit architects’ way of solving problems. The logics can be traced by colors, for example the wrong data type will show a red alert and an explanatory flag. The connections between these components are symbolized by wires plugged into the relevant placeholders.
This interface shows a graphic representation of programming functions and the numeric variables/parameters are fed into visual boxes. (Grasshopper is a parametric plug-in for Rhino, also developed by McNeel. Rhinoceros v5,6, or 7 is CAD software developed by Robert McNeel, USA.
