Land forming while you are on site

Abstract

In landscape architecture design, land forming is the key to trigger many design concepts. However, the design media we currently use doesn't provide suitable data or better visual feedback to designers when they are on site. In this paper, we develop a framework as well as a ubiquitous device called MODA comprised of five components. These are sensors, representation, display/viewing, motion and control that result from behaviours observation and analysis. According to the framework, a practical example of landform design is conducted and examined with one version of MODA combining both hardware and software.