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10/10/2026

🚨Last hours to join us at the Tensegrity and Tensile Membranes in Kangaroo, a two-day hands-on workshop exploring deployable structures through geometry, forces, and computational design.

💬 Seats are limited. To register now, tap the link: https://paacademy.com/course/Tensegrity-and-Tensile-Membranes-in-Kangaroo

Led by computational architectural designer and researcher Virginia Ellyn Melnyk, the workshop takes participants through a practical workflow using Rhino, Grasshopper, and Kangaroo to design, simulate, and prototype dynamic structural systems.

Starting with scissor-based mechanisms, you’ll develop increasingly complex hyperbolic and tensegrity systems while learning how constraints, forces, and geometry shape structural behavior. You’ll also experiment with tensile membranes and explore how they can contribute to movement, stability, and equilibrium within deployable systems.

📑 Topic: Tensegrity and Tensile Membranes in Kangaroo
📅 Date: October 10 - 11, 2026
🕓 Time: 14:00 - 18:00 GMT
🧑🏼‍🎓 Total Seats: 50
🛒 15% Discount for Pro Members

10/10/2026

🦾Design it. Compute it. Print it at full scale.

Join Monolithic Furniture: Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing, a two-day live PAACADEMY workshop exploring how computational design can respond directly to the realities of large-scale 3D printing.

🔗 Ready to join? Secure your seat and register through the link: https://paacademy.com/course/monolithic-furniture-large-scale-additive-manufacturing

✨ Led by Luc Morroni, a computational designer and founder of MORRONI, the workshop explores how manufacturing constraints influence geometry, structure, material deposition, ergonomics, and production performance.

Participants will design a chair developed for large-scale additive manufacturing. The project will examine how computational geometry, structural logic, ergonomics, and fabrication constraints can be integrated into a single furniture design workflow.

📑 Topic: Monolithic Furniture: Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing
📅 Date: November 7-8, 2026
🕓 Time: 14:00 - 18:00 GMT
🧑🏼‍🎓 Total Seats: 50 seats
🛒 15% Discount for Digital Members

10/09/2026

Last 24 hours to join🚨

Join us this weekend at the Tensegrity and Tensile Membranes in Kangaroo, a two-day hands-on workshop exploring deployable structures through geometry, forces, and computational design.

💬 Seats are limited. To register now, tap the link: https://paacademy.com/course/Tensegrity-and-Tensile-Membranes-in-Kangaroo

Led by computational architectural designer and researcher Virginia Ellyn Melnyk, the workshop takes participants through a practical workflow using Rhino, Grasshopper, and Kangaroo to design, simulate, and prototype dynamic structural systems.

Starting with scissor-based mechanisms, you’ll develop increasingly complex hyperbolic and tensegrity systems while learning how constraints, forces, and geometry shape structural behavior. You’ll also experiment with tensile membranes and explore how they can contribute to movement, stability, and equilibrium within deployable systems.

📑 Topic: Tensegrity and Tensile Membranes in Kangaroo
📅 Date: October 10 - 11, 2026
🕓 Time: 14:00 - 18:00 GMT
🧑🏼‍🎓 Total Seats: 50
🛒 15% Discount for Pro Members

10/09/2026

⏳ 11 days left to register at the Early Bird rate.

Thinking about entering CartesianForms: Architecture Reimagined? You don’t need a finished project to register.

🔗 Tap the link to register: https://paacademy.com/competitions/cartesianforms-architecture-reimagined

Secure your entry now. Develop your proposal next. Submit by December 13, 2026.

🏆 With a $120,000+ total prize pool, the competition invites architects, designers, and students worldwide to select a 50 × 50 m site and explore how it could evolve across three generations:

2030 — INHERIT > 2055 — ALTER > 2080 — PASS ON

The challenge is not simply to imagine the future, but to show how architecture can respond, transform, and be passed forward through a clear process of experimentation, iteration, and design decisions.

🏆 $120,000+ in prizes & benefits
🌐 Open worldwide to students + professionals
👥 Enter solo or in teams of up to 5
📅 Early Entry until October 20, 2026
🕤 Registration Deadline: December 6, 2026
📥 Final Submission: December 13, 2026

🔥 Register now. Build your project over the next two months. Submit in December.

🔗 Tap the link to register: https://paacademy.com/competitions/cartesianforms-architecture-reimagined

📌/formas The Stone Edge by Carlos Bañon Blazquez

10/09/2026

What if Rhino could understand what you want to design, just by talking to it? 👀

🔥 Join Leo Bieling, Principal at blng studio and former researcher at ZHACODE, for Conversational Parametric Design: ChatGPT-6 Astra × Rhino, a two-day live PAACADEMY workshop exploring a new way to design parametric systems through natural-language conversation.

🔗 Ready to turn language into geometry? Join the workshop: https://paacademy.com/course/conversational-parametric-design-chatgpt-6-astra-rhino

Using ChatGPT-6 Astra and Rhino 8, you’ll learn how to break architecture into geometric rules and parameters, describe those rules through pseudo-code, and turn your ideas into working, editable parametric models.

No need to begin with complex scripts or massive Grasshopper definitions. Instead, you’ll use conversation to generate code, control geometry, troubleshoot your models, and continuously refine the design.

🚀 What You’ll Learn

• Turn architectural ideas into geometric rules and parameters
• Analyze design logic with ChatGPT-6 Astra
• Write pseudo-code without prior scripting experience
• Generate parametric scripts for Rhino 8
• Control geometry through interactive sliders
• Debug and refine models through conversation
• Create renders and animations with Runway
• Build your own reusable AI + Rhino workflow library

📑 Topic: Conversational Parametric Design: ChatGPT-6 Astra × Rhino
📅 Date: December 12-13, 2026
🕓 Time: 14:00 - 18:00 GMT
🧑🏼‍🎓 Total Seats: 50 seats
🛒 15% Discount for Pro Members

10/08/2026

🦸‍♀️ Meet the instructor of this weekend’s “Tensegrity and Tensile Membranes in Kangaroo” workshop, Virginia Ellyn Melnyk.

Virginia Ellyn Melnyk is a computational architectural designer and researcher specializing in knitting, lightweight structures, and transformable architecture. She is currently an assistant professor at Iowa State University.

Her teaching and research explore the interplay between deployable and lightweight structures, utilizing the fabrication methods of CNC knitting to develop structural membranes. Her designs focus on knit pattern arrangements using elastic yarns and connecting them with transformable frameworks to create deployable structures that stretch and interact with both their environment and users.

🔗Tap the link to register now: https://paacademy.com/course/Tensegrity-and-Tensile-Membranes-in-Kangaroo

The workshop takes participants through a practical workflow using Rhino, Grasshopper, and Kangaroo to design, simulate, and prototype dynamic structural systems.

Starting with scissor-based mechanisms, you’ll develop increasingly complex hyperbolic and tensegrity systems while learning how constraints, forces, and geometry shape structural behavior. You’ll also experiment with tensile membranes and explore how they can contribute to movement, stability, and equilibrium within deployable systems.

📑 Topic: Tensegrity and Tensile Membranes in Kangaroo
📅 Date: October 10 - 11, 2026
🕓 Time: 14:00 - 18:00 GMT
🧑🏼‍🎓 Total Seats: 50
🛒 15% Discount for Pro Members

10/08/2026

🚀Registration is open for AI-Powered Design Exploration: From Ideation to Visualization, a 2-day AI-driven architectural design workshop where participants explore the complete workflow from early-stage ideation to accurate architectural visualization.

🔗 Ready to join? Secure your seat and register through the link: https://paacademy.com/course/ai-powered-design-exploration-from-ideation-to-visualization

✨ Led by Architect and Project Director at Adjaye Associates, Daeho Lee, the workshop covers precedent analysis, architectural element extraction, AI-generated mutation and variation, critical selection, Rhino-based visualization, material and lighting studies, contextual editing, and AI-assisted animation using Midjourney, Nano Banana Pro, and Kling.

Participants will develop an AI-assisted workflow for both architectural ideation and visualization using AI tools. You will learn how to read buildings and objects as collections of physical elements rather than simply as stylistic references, extracting characteristics such as massing, openings, terraces, recesses, and structural conditions.

📑 Topic: AI-Powered Design Exploration: From Ideation to Visualization
📅 Date: October 31 - November 1, 2026
🕓 Time: 14:00 - 18:00 GMT
🧑🏼‍🎓 Total Seats: 50 seats
🛒 15% Discount for Digital Members

10/08/2026

🚀 Joining the CartesianForms: Architecture Reimagined competition? This free workshop is designed to help you develop your entry!

As part of CartesianForms: Architecture Reimagined, PAACADEMY is hosting a FREE 5-hour live workshop with Carlos Bañón, Co-Founder & Chief Design and AI Officer at FORMAS.AI, focused on using FORMAS.AI + Cartesian 3D to explore, iterate, visualize, and develop architectural ideas.

🔗 Ready to join the workshop and enter the competition? Explore the links below to register and learn more: https://paacademy.com/course/architecture-reimagined-formasai-cartesian-3d

🏆 CartesianForms: Architecture Reimagined challenges architects and designers to choose a 50 × 50 m site anywhere in the world and rethink its future across three moments:

2030 — INHERIT > 2055 — ALTER > 2080 — PASS ON

Rather than focusing only on a final image, the competition asks you to reveal your architectural thinking, the experiments, iterations, decisions, and transformations that shape your proposal over time.

With more than $120,000 in total awards, Professional and Student categories, and opportunities to win cash prizes, OpenAI credits, FORMAS PRO access, PAACADEMY Pro memberships, and more, the competition is an opportunity to explore how AI can become part of a rigorous architectural design process.

🔥 And this workshop will help you get started.

During the session, you’ll explore how to use FORMAS.AI and Cartesian 3D to:

• Define your competition site and architectural question
• Generate and compare multiple design directions
• Develop ideas through AI-powered iteration
• Turn sketches, drawings, and images into editable 3D geometry
• Build a clear design evolution across 2030, 2055, and 2080
• Communicate the process behind your final competition proposal

🔗 To secure your seat, follow the links below to register and get started: https://paacademy.com/course/architecture-reimagined-formasai-cartesian-3d

📑 Workshop: Architecture Reimagined: FORMAS.AI + Cartesian 3D
👨‍🏫 Tutor: Carlos Bañón
📅 Date: November 15, 2026
⏳ Duration: 5 Hours
🎟️ FREE Live Workshop

10/08/2026

Last 48 hours to join🚨

Join us this weekend at the Tensegrity and Tensile Membranes in Kangaroo, a two-day hands-on workshop exploring deployable structures through geometry, forces, and computational design.

💬 Seats are limited. To register now, tap the link: https://paacademy.com/course/Tensegrity-and-Tensile-Membranes-in-Kangaroo

Led by computational architectural designer and researcher Virginia Ellyn Melnyk, the workshop takes participants through a practical workflow using Rhino, Grasshopper, and Kangaroo to design, simulate, and prototype dynamic structural systems.

Starting with scissor-based mechanisms, you’ll develop increasingly complex hyperbolic and tensegrity systems while learning how constraints, forces, and geometry shape structural behavior. You’ll also experiment with tensile membranes and explore how they can contribute to movement, stability, and equilibrium within deployable systems.

📑 Topic: Tensegrity and Tensile Membranes in Kangaroo
📅 Date: October 10 - 11, 2026
🕓 Time: 14:00 - 18:00 GMT
🧑🏼‍🎓 Total Seats: 50
🛒 15% Discount for Pro Members

10/07/2026

Join the competition for a chance to win $120,000+ in prizes & benefits.🚀

We’re excited to announce CartesianForms: Architecture Reimagined, a global architecture and AI design competition by FORMAS.AI, PAACADEMY and ParametricArchitecture, sponsored by OpenAI.

🔗 Tap the link to register: https://paacademy.com/competitions/cartesianforms-architecture-reimagined

🌍Choose 50 × 50 meters anywhere in the world. Start with an existing building, structure, or site and imagine how it could transform across three generations:

2030 — INHERIT
Understand what exists and decide what deserves to remain.

2055 — ALTER
Transform the site, test possibilities, and make deliberate architectural choices.

2080 — PASS ON
Imagine what the next generation could inherit and transform again.

This competition isn’t about creating one spectacular final image. It’s about architectural thinking: experimentation, iteration, decision-making, and showing how an idea evolves over time.

🤖 Use AI not simply to render, but to explore, test, iterate, and communicate your architectural thinking.

🏆 $120,000+ in prizes & benefits
🌐 Open worldwide to students + professionals
👥 Enter solo or in teams of up to 5
📅 Early Entry until October 20, 2026
🕤 Registration Deadline: December 6, 2026
📥 Final Submission: December 13, 2026

One place. Three generations. What will you pass on?

🔗 Tap the link to register: https://paacademy.com/competitions/cartesianforms-architecture-reimagined

📌/formas Porous Commons by Carlos Bañon Blazquez

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