In designing a components-aggregated structure with understanding the materiality of a certain architectural medium, in the class--"Bamboo Tactics" run by Leslie Lok during the spring semester 2022, me and my team member(Janet Lu, Milena Marchan) utilized several types of AR/MR technologies to render the digitized structural components and adapt them to the actual manufacturing process to see how the hologram interface-integrated working environment could be possibly established as a new type of augmented fabrication experience. On a technical aspect, our team used Microsoft's Hololens2 which provides a mixed-reality experience and its interface, and for the software aspect, we used the Fologram plugin that supports the real-time bridge connection between computer(where the parameters or modeling are manipulated) and Hololens(where the holographic modelings are rendered).

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WIth crafting the bamboo-based structure along with understanding the unique materiality of bamboo itself such as tensile strength, irregular node system(diameter and interval between nodes), and so on, within a team I mainly modeled the entire structure and parameterized its architectural characteristics(e.g. tile anchor point density on each curve, curve degree on a bamboo pole, tile's offset degree on the main pole) via Grasshopper. Based on this computational setup, as mentioned above, I utilized the external plugin "Fologram" and connected its export components to each key parameter of a structure to export and convert it into a holographic modeling within Hololens environment. 

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