Models, Scanners, Pencils, and CAD: Interactions Between Manual and Digital Media (1995)
article⁄Models, Scanners, Pencils, and CAD: Interactions Between Manual and Digital Media (1995)
abstract⁄This paper discusses new approaches to the relation between handmade and computer aided media in design. The discussion focuses on two advanced studio projects in which graduate student designers incorporated interactions between physical models, a digital scanner, handmade drawings, and the manipulation of images in the computer. These interactions provide a valuable supplement to traditional means both manual and digital for generating, developing, and representing architectural form. Features of the student’s work that other designers will find significant are its focus on multiple interactions, its setting within a realistic design process, and its use of low levels of computer technology. After describing details of the designer’s media techniques, the paper discusses the practical and theoretical implications of the work.
