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Categorizing and Tagging Everything is Challenging

Categorizing and Tagging elements while drawing is simply distracting.

Selecting from a known list leads to a more fluent workflow.

Its like creating passwords that are going to be forgotten moments after they have been used.

There is no graphic image to remember or recall when naming a piece of geometry.

How does this process become common and usual enough to fade into the background?

Maybe need to spend some time developing a goto list of Categories and Tags for drawing digitally.

Sorting and Filtering are powerful tools provided there are common characteristics to use.

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Parametric Design is about re-use

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Drawings with Words and Symbols

One of the most challenging tasks of designing in the computer is drawing with words and symbols.

Drawing by hand allows one to enter a whole new world free to create become one with the drawing tool, drawing surface and creative thoughts.

Its truly amazingly wonderful place where time stops and ideas flow!

Using the computer interface is so disjointed and obtuse.  The constant jumping between words regarding digital data, organizational metrics, categorizing elements, capturing logic, establishing rules, naming geometry, and calculating units.  It feels like every other moment is a leap out of the creative design world into a computer programming structured zone.

Design software needs to fade into the background, be silent.

Give design the stage back, let the lines and geometry be the actors on the canvas.

Technology has hijacked the essence of design for the sake of re-usability.

Challenge is that very little if anything at all ever gets re-used!

It’s always off to the next design idea.

The most fascinating aspect of architecture is that every design opportunity is new!

 

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Connecting Architecture through screens

When will Architecture embrace the advances of social media.

Documentation still adheres to dated analog processes in digital format.

Nothing is connected or smart.  It’s simply digital pieces of information, linked by manual processes.

From one project to the next what gets re-used?

How much time is invested in forensics to determine the varcity of the item to be re-used?

Should buildings have an IP address?

What level of granularity is required to be connected?

Begin with environmental datasets as a point of convergence.

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Data From Gestures

Imagine the world if data came directly from gestures.  The intermediate tools, like the mouse would become obsolete.

I dream of a world in which natural language serves as the basis for data.  Why all this computer language and machine code?   All the syntax, placeholders and variables that stand for something else?

Just think of the simplicity and efficiency to be gained by using natural language for data.