egaku: Enhancing the Sketching Process
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Yoon, Jennifer S; Ryokai, Kimiko; Dyner, Chad D.; Alonso, Jason B; Ishii, Hiroshi
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Architects sketch using a translucent vellum tracing paper with a thick pencil or marker. The translucency of the paper allows architects to employ a layer-drawing technique for the exploration of ideas derived from their basic design. For example, working with a single base layer such as a map of the site, architects can design upwards of hundreds of possible variations. This ultimately leads to a great pile of drawings, which compose the piles of papers typically strewn about an architecture studio. Individually, these “referential” sketches represent small pieces of a much larger design concept [Graves 1977]. Although they are valuable,they are often cumbersome to manage during the ideation process because it interrupts the flow of ideation, and even difficult to understand when a single sketch is taken out of associated sketches.
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2004-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory; Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Journal
ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Posters on, SIGGRAPH '04
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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Yoon, Jennifer, Kimiko Ryokai, Chad Dyner, Jason Alonso, and Hiroshi Ishii. “Egaku.” ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Posters on, SIGGRAPH ’04 (2004), Los Angeles, California, August 08-12, 2004.
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1581138962