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Mylène Moliner-Roy
U2 Studio | Instructor: Robert Claiborne
This exercise initiated an exploration of a flexible and inventive space through the charting of our personal connectedness to the world. The objective was to create a complex spatial mapping of our individual worlds through the creation of a tri-dimensional model.
My data mapping looked at a collection of thoughts, memories, encounters and discoveries that have happened throughout my life. These experiences model an understanding of my environment built on both rational reflections and sensorial intuitions. To represent how all these independent events have a different character when looked at as a whole, the model is made out of various sticks, singular elements that reveal a coherent topography when read as a whole.
The source data was recorded and processed through Grasshopper to create a cartesian geographical grid, a 3-dimensional topology of a collection of places I have visited. My memory of a place is altered by the time spent there or the frequency visited, and feeling of belonging. These factors serve to deform the first grid transposing the way perception alters reality. The topography is created by modulating the height, proximity and diameter of the sticks according to the factors.