Kit Crashing S2 E05: Monk-like Paving

Houston, we have paving.

In this episode, Chris and Ishaan dive deep into the Monks Garden project, a meticulously crafted museum garden where every individual paver was considered. Watch as Chris builds a parametric workflow in Land Kit to tackle the hardest problem first: designing and iterating on complex relationship between paths and paving in real time.

From constraint discovery to elegant solutions, from running bond patterns to precision offsets, this is computational design in the landscape. Tune in as we weave artistry and algorithm to tackle constraints and resolve precise and elegant solutions.

Project: Monk's Garden

Firm: MVVA (Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc)

0:00:00 Ay dios mio

0:00:40 Zen morning and life reflections

0:02:33 Building your own destiny

0:04:45 Monks Garden: magical and whimsical

0:12:24 Crafting individual pavers

0:16:46 Attack the hardest problem first

0:22:59 Path boundaries and structure

0:28:11 Resilience and automatic logic

0:31:55 Houston, we have paving!

0:37:44 Width and constraint discovery