Exploring the surface manipulation properties of Rhino is vital in understanding how the computational aspects of the design process far exceed the what was once practiced. Architecture 470's Project A02 tasks students with the creation of a bus stop on an undetermined site. In the above three schemes sweeps, folds, and curves are manipulated to create shaded seating areas as well as potential bike stands (Scheme 3) for people patiently awaiting the bus.
The project seeks to use a cube--one of the most basic and easily understood volumes, essential to design on a variety of scales--to explore surface manipulation. In Rhinoceros, a cube was gradually deformed (using methods of addition and subtraction) giving any viewer the ability to witness the evolution of process over the series of 15 iterations. The result of this process is an abstract conglomeration of lines, planes, and volumes that explores the design capacity of basic commands made available in Rhinoceros.
