An illuminated workspace for iterative design
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Author(s)
Wang, Yao, 1976-
Advisor(s)
William Lyman Porter and Hiroshi Ishii.
Date Issued
2002
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
The rapid development of digital technology has led to the widespread of virtual or CAD based design environments. However, these tools lack a means of combing physical and digital representations in order to support the iterative design process. The illuminated workspace provides a self-contained design environment in which a number of physical, computational, statistical, and visual representations can be combined in a single creative space. This thesis describes a landscape design workbench called Illuminating Clay that allows designers to intuitively manipulate free-form physical models and simultaneously interact with computational analysis of these physical representations. This thesis shows how the system supports multiple forms of representation - physical models, 2-D images, digital models, and dynamic simulations - in the early stage of design and allows for an easy transition between physical and digital modeling in the process of landscape design.
Description
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves [79]-81).
Subjects
Architecture.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
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