FormHypes

Geometry has consequences.

Design the form. Read its value.

A prototype by Nonarkara, built on the embedded design knowledge of Shouheng Chen's 2006 MIT thesis and carried twenty years further.

Drag to orbit · ± to zoom metres

Built for a landscape laptop. On a narrow screen this console is cramped — rotate the device.

FORMHYPES Concept prototype — not for construction

Find the form that earns its footprint.

Every alternative is resized to your gross floor area.

Study shelf

Save a form before changing the rules.

MIT · SMArchS · 2006

Twenty years of an unfinished idea.

2006 → 2026

Twenty years ahead.
Still an unfinished idea.

Take the study with you.

Metres, explicit assumptions, editable geometry.

OBJ contains the conceptual outer shell.

Architectural knowledge

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