LO – My Inspiration

Looking Outward Assignment 1 Basics

One of my professors from the previous few years is currently a computational design student in the architecture program after working in the field for many years. The project that I am speaking about is one in which he was able to generate different swatches of neighborhood in Grasshopper for Rhino, which would fit into the urban
context of the neighborhood very well, yet not seem like it had been gridded like traditional urban planning. I really admire the project because it shows that the power of architecture (especially in relation to computationally generated architecture) is greater than just at the scale of the house. I believe he did it alone and took a semester. He used a lot of custom software. Was inspired by others in the field of Computational Design. I think it points to a future where computers can provide a baseline for how to design or rework parts of cities where we can quickly propose a multitude of opportunities for the neighborhood. The project is called Urban Synthesizer by Jinmo Rhee.