Mosquito

Mosquito is a plugin suite developed for Rhino3D and Grasshopper by Carson Smuts. Developed while teaching with Mario Gooden and Mabel Wilson at Columbia GSAPP in 2011, the plugin allowed designers to tap into social , financial and popular media. Extracting location, profiles, images and messages from etc…. (note: Facebook and Twitter plugins are currently not working)

As architects there is a responsibility to consider the practices that play out in public spaces. However, people now also dwell in the digital equivalent, namely, social media space. While this space becomes ever more permanent, the physical realm is fleeting, an evanescent space with a layer of digital.

Mobile tech at our disposal blends digital and physical space creating a slippage between the proximal and distal. They may not intersect, but whether you agree or not with nature of social media, it is important to remain critical from both sides.

We are utilizing the tools in this component suite to bridge the gap between physical geometries and digital data. Driving geometry with data and vice-versa. The ability to extract user Geo-coordinates, language, thoughts, profile and image enables architects to paint a picture. It is this  4-dimensional picture, which we refer to as “spatial condition”, that allows us to explore what happened yesterday, now and hypothesize about tomorrow. True 4-dimensional modeling.