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The Heuristic Object
A design thesis exploring the object as a tool for learning, where making, testing, and iteration become part of the design process itself.
- Category
- Experimental
- Status
- Proposal
- Year
- 2015
- Medium
- Computational design · Grasshopper
The Heuristic Object — continuous inhabitable surface study
Summary
The Heuristic Object explored how space could be generated from the physical needs and activities of the human body rather than from conventional rooms, furniture, and architectural elements.
Developed algorithmically in Grasshopper, the project treated the apartment as a single continuous surface. Instead of placing objects into space, the surface itself changed geometry to support sitting, working, sleeping, enclosure, circulation, and other everyday forms of inhabitation.
Project record
01 / Overview
A computational design study using a continuous surface to generate inhabitable space in response to the human body.
02 / The idea
Rather than designing a room and then filling it with furniture, the project asks whether architecture itself can deform, fold, and adapt to support the activities of the body.
03 / What I did
Concept development, computational design, Grasshopper scripting, spatial studies, and geometric experimentation.
04 / How it works
Human activities and body positions were translated into spatial requirements and geometric relationships. Those relationships informed an algorithmic Grasshopper system that manipulated a continuous surface, allowing different regions of the same geometry to become places for sitting, working, sleeping, circulation, enclosure, and other everyday uses.
05 / The surface
The project intentionally blurs the distinction between architecture and furniture. A floor can become a seat, a seat can become a wall, and a wall can become enclosure, with function emerging from the relationship between the surface and the body rather than from a predefined architectural category.
Artifacts / working material
01 recordsStatus & links
Proposal
This archive entry documents the work in its current state. Additional photographs, process material, and links will be added as the record develops.