PARAMETRICISM

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CONTENTS

WHAT IS PARAMETRIC DESIGN?

PARAMETRIC VARIATIONS
DEVELOPMENT
PARAMETRIC ARCHITECTURE
EXAMPLES
PARAMETRICISM
REFERENCES

PARAMETRIC DESIGN

PARAMETRIC DESIGN IS SUCH THAT IT IS THE PARAMETERS OF A DESIGN THAT ARE DECLARED,
NOT THE SHAPE... EQUATIONS ARE USED TO REPRESENT THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN OBJECTS.
THE ABILITY TO DEFINE, DETERMINE AND RECONFIGURE GEOMETRICAL RELATIONSHIPS IS OF
PARTICULAR VALUE.
MARK BURRY (PARAMORPH 1999)

PARAMETRIC DESIGN
Sculpture
Architecture
Painting
Modeling, etc.

PARAMETRIC VARIATIONS
INSTEAD OF BEING ASSIGNED FIXED VALUES,
PARAMETERS THAT DEFINE 3D OBJECTS
(SUCH AS HEIGHT OR RADIUS) CAN ALSO BE
STORED AS VARIABLES OR FORMULAS.
BY ASSIGNING DIFFERENT VALUES TO
THE VARIABLES, DIFFERENT OBJECTS CAN BE
EASILY CREATED.

PARAMETERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE POSITION

AND ORIENTATION OF OBJECTS CAN ALSO BE
DEFINED AS VARIABLES OR FORMULAS.

H= 4*X
PARAMETERS:
H, X, a, c

development
ANTONIO GAUDIS WORK USING CHAIN
MODELS TO FIND THE OPTIMAL
STRUCTURE SHAPES IN LA SAGRADA
FAMILIA IS ONE OF EARLIEST EXAMPLE OF
PARAMETRIC DESIGN
LA SAGRADA FAMILIA

PARAMETRIC PROCESS USED IN AEROSPACE

INDUSTRIES INSPIRED ARCHITECT TO USE
THIS PROCESS IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
GREG LYNN PIONEERED THE FIELD OF PARAMETRIC DESIGN
USING COMPUTERS

GREG LYNN

BLOB ARCHITECTURE (EMBRIOLOGICAL HOUSING) BY GREG LYNN

PARAMETRIC ARCHITECTURE

IT IS AN ATTEMPT TO LET STRUCTURES GROW SYSTEMATICALLY, ACCORDING TO THEIR

RELATION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT, AS A LIVING ORGANISM WOULD DO IN ORDER TO
SURVIVE. EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED, AND TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT EVERYTHING,
SOPHISTICATED SOFTWARES ARE NECESSARY AND DO MUCH OF THE WORK.
PATRICK SCHUMACHER

PARAMETRIC ARCHITECTURE
PARAMETRICISM IMPLIES THAT ALL ELEMENTS OF ARCHITECTURE ARE BECOMING PARAMETRICALLY
MALLEABLE AND THUS ADAPTIVE TO EACH OTHER AND TO THE CONTEXT.

Problem-solving is the driving force

Form Follows Function??

Transition - Fluidity

Idea of architecture whose form develops according to Fractal Geometry

instead of being constraint by Platonic solids.

30 ST. MARY AXE, LONDON

30 ST MARY AXE, ALSO KNOWN AS
THE GHERKIN, THE CUCUMBER BUILDING AND
THE SWISS RE BUILDING, IS A SKYSCRAPER IN
LONDONS MAIN FINANCIAL DISTRICT, THE CITY OF LONDON, (
BY FOSTER AND PARTNERS)

Parametric nodes of the tower's computer

model.

THE AERODYNAMIC FORM OF THE TOWER

ENCOURAGES WIND TO FLOW AROUND ITS FACE,
MINIMIZING WIND LOADS ON THE STRUCTURE
AND CLADDING, ENABLING THE USE OF A MORE
EFFICIENT STRUCTURE.

Changing certain form-giving parameters created

variations in the building profile

After parameters are given , the design team quickly test

numerous forms.

CITY HALL,
LONDON

MERCEDES BENZ MUSEUM

WHOLE DESIGN IS DEVELOPED FROM COMPOSITION OF
CIRCLES,TANGENTS AND INTERSECTION POINTS, GRADUALLY
REDUCED TO THE GEOMETRY NECESSARY TO DESCRIBE THE DESIGN.
WIDTH OF THE RAMPS, DIMENSION OF THE CORES, DIMENSION OF
THE CONCRETE SLABS, CEILING HEIGHT WERE DESIGNED
PARAMETRICALLY.
CONSTRUCTIVE GEOMETRY FOR EARLY DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION
AND FABRICATION.

PARAMETRIC-ISM ???
PARAMETRICISM IS THE LABEL COINED BY THE ARCHITECTURE OFFICE OF ZAHA
HADID, AND ESPECIALLY PUT FORWARD IN ITS THEORETICAL BACKING UP BY
PATRICK SCHUMACHER.

Is it an -ISM ???

REFERENCES
From control to design by Michael Meredith.
Patrick Schumacher on parametricism- Let the style wars begin
aestheticsandpolitics.calarts.edu/conferences
http://scriptinganotherstory.weebly.com/interior-architecturedesign-from-modernism-to-parametricism.html

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