WELCOME TO DIVA-FOR-RHINO

DIVA-for-Rhino is a sustainable design plug-in for the Rhinoceros - NURBS modeling for Windows application. The plug-in has been developed by Alstan Jakubiec, Kera Lagios, Jeff Niemasz, Christoph Reinhart and Jon Sargent at the the GSD-Squared research initiative at Harvard University and allows users to carry out a series of performance evaluations of individual buildings and urban landscapes including:

DL

Radiation Maps (Radiance/GenCumulativeSky)

Visualizations
(Radiance)

Climate-Based Metrics (Radiance/Daysim)

DF

Glare Analysis
(Radiance/Evalglare)

LEED IEQ Credit 8.1 Compliance
(Radiance)

Annual Glare Maps
(Radiance/Daysim)

Should you decide to use DIVA-for-Rhino in your design practice or research, please acknowledge the contribution of the DIVA development team and let us know about your problems and successes!