ORNAMENTAL CONNECTIVITY:
FORM, FABRICATION, AND DATA ENVIRONMENTS 

final workstation/bench rendering

Ornamental Connectivity: Form, Fabrication, and Data Environmentsis a collaboration with Soft/Rigid's Brian Brush and Yong Ju Lee at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture during the Spring 2009 term. The project takes raw data, analyzes this information through GIS mapping, and uses the analysis as the basis for formal design. At the end of the semester, a collection of dynamic and interactive maps was presented along with a full-scale prototype of the designed object.

The dataset used was the number of wireless computer connections across Columbia's Morningside campus during the week of final exams from Fall 2008 (7-13 December 2008).

Workstation/Bench prototype in place at the End-of-Year Exhibit

The laptop used at GSAPP's End-of-Year Exhibit featured this interactive flash installation, showing the density of wireless usage across Columbia's campus. 

STILL IMAGES FROM VARIOUS ANIMATED MAPS 

Wireless Users per Building

2D Density Map

2D Density Contour Map

3D Density Contours

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This project would not have been possible without the help, support, guidance, and teaching of Sarah Williams and Phil Anzalone at Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.  I would also like to thank Brian Brush and Yong Ju Lee for their willingness to enter into this strange collaboration between fabrication techniques and the methods of GIS.