Week 10 Readings

Week 10 Readings – Practice vs Project 5: Parametricim vs Parametric Thinking

Parametric design is defined to be an architecture which implements parameters of a defined range through the utilisation of parametric modelling software. The parametric software can also dig into a curvilinear design, which basically allows one to distort and manipulate a form in different ways. The possibility of parametric deign being available aids in the efficiency of designing architecture in regards to time and money.

 Algorithmic term is generally referred to solving problems through a procedural technique(s) or an instruction. Furthermore, the use of scripting languages manipulated bot by form but of code. Some examples of algorithmic design are created through the programming lanuages such as RhinoScript, Visual Basic, and 3DMaxScript.   

Through the use of both parametric design and algorithmic design, it has allowed the possibility of a variety of different digital research units such as the Gehry Technology which came from Gehry partners, and CODE at Zaha Hadid Architects. Parametric and algorithmic design is sometimes referred to as “parametricism” which ultimately enables the possibility of a new style in architecture.  Parametric and algorithmic terms are still yet to be fully understood completely, parametric design may or may not be a new digital technology but now a predominant basis of an aesthetic expression or style in architecture.

References
Schumacher, Patrik “Parametric Patterns.” In Theories of the Digital in Architecture, edited by Rivka & Robert Oxman (2014): 143-152.