Meta Gr!D Christopher How Name Vong Leung Cheun Supervisor: Supervisor: Ian Nazareth
Meta Gr!D is an exploration into setting up a platform and framework as a medium to understand how cities could possibly be planned through data. It is a grid that wants to be described by information; a grid that knows no given typography, no prescribed ideology and no context, but only pure data. Encoding the relationships between the building and its environment. Future cities are to be distributed while carrying a sense of autonomy. Up until recently, Big Data has been used to unpack the organisational pattern of human beings in many cities however, it has always been the case that these visualisations are from a given environment. Meta Gr!D looks at data as an opportunity to reimagine how planning could be distributed within itself in a virtual ecosystem, using the current physical manifestation of humans as a starting point, these data are being scaled and amplified to match the required need of such an environment. The floating objects are the materialization of data both in the physical and virtual world. Virtual as it is operating in the background while dealing with its surrounding field.