GUIDANCE

coding constructive processes

Geometry Engines
Feedback Loops
Automation

Haptic Clash Detection

Cambridge, MA

MIT, How to Make Almost Anything

Instructor: Neil Gershenfeld

How much information do you need to communicate to place a brick?

Paradoxically, most modern architects use digital tools to prepare analog drawings. That is, the location of the brick in digital space is a piece of information that we possess, but in order to communicate, we flatten the information into series of 2D drawings that need to be reinterpreted by the builder on site. Hypothetically, if the mason could interpret the digital coordinates of the brick, we could skip the drawings entirely.

Concept Sketch: Imagine feeling points in space

Replacing physical guides with digital scaffolds

Systems Diagram: Digital Scaffolding