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title: "Parametric Spatial Mapping · Alexander Frings"
description: "Color as data. Data as geometry. A translation exercise where spatial information (density, flow, temperature) becomes built volume."
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# Parametric Spatial Mapping

Parametric Spatial Mapping: a project by Alexander Frings (2023), in the Computational design and digital fabrication family.

Color as data. Data as geometry. A translation exercise where spatial information (density, flow, temperature) becomes built volume. The form isn't decorative: it's the direct consequence of what the data says.

![Image of the project Parametric Spatial Mapping](https://apexdesign.cl/projects/mapeo-espacial-parametrico.webp)

## Project file

- **Year:** 2023
- **Family:** [Computational design and digital fabrication](https://apexdesign.cl/en/files)
- **Author:** [Alexander Frings](https://apexdesign.cl/en/about), Design Engineer with an MSc in Innovation and Design
- **Map:** [Tool, on the digital side](https://apexdesign.cl/en/map)

## Technologies and topics

- Grasshopper
- Rhino
- Spatial Analysis
- Data to Form
- Parametric

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