On Designing Stools, Scripted Decisions

To further understand the necessary factors and characteristics of design fabrication from the designers’ end, we wrote a stool generator using Grasshopper script within the Rhinoceros 3D modeling environment. This work produces a script that becomes a design tool to automatically generate multiple stool designs. We explain and illustrate the design components, demonstrate and show an example design, and discuss about the process, as a self-reflection of making design decisions from the designers’ end, seeing the tool as a part of the design description.