event it!

Fall 2018 | GSAPP selective - META TOOL

Yifan Deng, Shuang Bi

Instructor: Dan Taeyoung

If design always happening in a medium, what the medium usually is? For our modern people, it’s always on the computer screen. Hand drawing, drafting, physical modeling are gradually getting away from many of us. Inevitably, digital modeling brings a lot of convenience and new options, but it also let our primitive tools - hands, being left out a little. The motion of cutting, pasting, measuring, drafting, rotating fulfilled by feeling and touching had been substituted by dull operations on keyboard and mouse, turns into array, offset, boolean and 3d print. We are trying to bring an experimental environment that is both high efficiency and “hand - inspired“, which can finally alter the design output.

Developed in grasshopper with the support of PaperHopper, a medium for prototyping new architectural design tool. A tool which can turn design process from the daily staring the 3d modeling software in the screen, hitting keyboard and clicking mouse to play with body and hands on a physical table environment. An event planning tool which user can select and arrange furniture from the side and put into multiple spaces. Criteria under each space turn from red to green if a certain condition is satisfied.