Sophia Chang – website N/A
Harvard GSD / MArchI 6th Semester

Experience
Art is something I pursue as a personal interest through painting, drawing, and music composition. Most of my formalized experience of making comes from manual design/making of furniture, but, I have also worked with the breadth of CNC tools available at the GSD to create architectural models. I have been studying architecture for 7 years. I am comfortable in Rhino, CAD and Adobe software as well as some animating using 3dsMax. I have also worked in various offices from corporate to young and experimental where I have helped to design on the scale from towers to room/facade sized interactive installations. For some of these installations, as well as installations for courses, I have customized C# scripts to respond to movement and sound. I have never created a C# script from scratch. I am comfortable in grasshopper.

Why
For my thesis, I am exploring issues having to do with how architectural space can react to changes in perception, lifestyle, and knowledge created by digital space. Because the course situates itself between the digital and physical realm, I am immediately drawn to it as a possible means to experiment, and a place where I can contribute through my research. As one idea, I could potentially explore the creation of a research environment which organizes information in relation to the body's position in space. Not sure if this is the project, but my main interest is in digital becoming spatial rather than merely object or device.

Art
Architecture
Craft/Fabrication
Design
DIY Electronics
Electrical Eng.
Mech. Eng.
Programming/CS

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