PART II of IV – ’Terrain Design Information & Speculative Trajectories of Natural Dynamic Processes’

Decoding Natural and Articficial Morphometric Features of Svalbard.

OverviewRAW Studio ChapterPart I · QGIS & Open Geo Data ChapterPart II · Terrain Design Information Model ChapterPart IV · Digital FabricationChapterPart III · Altered Terrain & Rapid Prototyping

TeachingLocation Svalbard

Parametric Data Mapping / GIS to CAD / 2d to 3D / Simple Protocols of Transformation, Rotation and Scale

Algorithmic thinking and the use of the visual programming language interface of Grasshopper3d to reinterpret Terrain & Material Conditions at the Mining Site of Svea on Spitzbergen, Svalbard

Terrain Design Information & Speculative Trajectories of Natural Dynamic Processes | Workshop at the Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial Studies | Image: Marc-Eduard Ihle — Terrain Design Information & Speculative Trajectories of Natural Dynamic Processes | Workshop at the Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial S

OverviewRAW Studio ChapterPart I · QGIS & Open Geo Data ChapterPart II · Terrain Design Information Model ChapterPart IV · Digital FabricationChapterPart III · Altered Terrain & Rapid Prototyping

The work

artefacts

16 images cut by hand — the page is an edit, not a container.

Creating a ‘Svalbard-TDIM’ (Terrain Design Information Model) for a specific Project/Geo-location & Territorial Extension; Clipping Data and extrapolating Terrain Attributes using SagaGIS and Terrain Analysis Modules; Creating an Attribute Table and storing calculated attributes to XY-coordinates/cells within a raster/grid/database; Exporting Geo-Data in different Formats to a CAD Import Folder Location; Creating of custom ‘3D-terrain-informed-planes’ orienting Geometry in normal direction to the terrain; decomposing a mesh; Accessing Attributes/Information such as: Solar Potential, Wind Exposition Index, Water Accumulation and Flow Direction Index, Topographic Wetness Index, Slope, Aspect,

Natural-, Artificial- and Hybrid-Morphologies

The material, photographed

6 images

A photo series uploaded to this page that its text never showed. Same size, in sequence.

Process

11 screenshots

Grey until you hover — 11 software screenshots, kept as reference rather than shown as the work.

Scripts & files

↓DL-Simple-Terrain-Modificationfile · transfer link expired — kept as record↓DL-Mesh-to-Single-Surfacefile · transfer link expired — kept as record↓DL-Waterflow-on-Single-Surfacefile · transfer link expired — kept as record↓DL-Replace-Itemsfile · transfer link expired — kept as record↓DL-Mesh-From-Contoursfile · transfer link expired — kept as record↓DL-Multiple-Attractor-Curvesfile · transfer link expired — kept as record↓Terrain Creation and Modification from Imagefile · transfer link expired — kept as record↓DL-Contour-Shell-Modelfile · transfer link expired — kept as record↓DL-Model-Cross-Sectionfile · transfer link expired — kept as record

These Grasshopper definitions built stacked contour models by hand — the horizontal contour method was in use here long before it was automated, as far back as 2012. The same method now runs as DL Terrain Slicer. The transfer links have long expired; they are kept as a record of that lineage.