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Inductive Sampling
2025 · teachingUndergraduate Design V studio, UT Austin, fall 2025
- year
- 2025
- type
- teaching
- credit
- Daniel Koehler, studio instructor, The University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, fall 2025. Student work by Jasmine Way and Brynn MacDowell.
- program
- Synthetic Types
- where
- The University of Texas at Austin · Design V, ARC 520K · Fall 2025
- students
- Jasmine Way, Brynn MacDowell, Cade Cohen, Natalie Jones, Caleb King, Samuel Larkin, Maya Modur, Arthur Monteiro, Mattie Pincu, Elizabeth Sorensen, Brittany Wang, Kennedy Whitlock
- no.
- 047
Inductive Sampling taught sampling as a design method. Students built kinetic and sectional models first and asked the models to complete them second, so that every generated proposal had a physical object to answer to. The digital tool was built for the semester and handed to the students on day one; the final review was judged on plans, sections and materials, never on images.
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Jasmine Way, section and plan, fall 2025 
Jasmine Way, final posters 1 and 2 of 3, fall 2025 
Brynn MacDowell, final layouts 1 and 2 of 4, fall 2025 
Brynn MacDowell, final layouts 3 and 4 of 4, fall 2025
1 / 4 · Jasmine Way, section and plan, fall 2025
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