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    This document discusses parametric design in architecture. It defines parametric design as one where parameters like height or radius can be variables or formulas rather than fixed values, allowing for different configurations. Early examples mentioned include Gaudi's chain models for La Sagrada Familia and Greg Lynn's blob architecture. Parametric architecture is described as letting structures grow systematically based on environmental relationships, using sophisticated software. Specific parametric architecture projects highlighted include 30 St Mary Axe in London, the Mercedes Benz Museum, and London City Hall. The document also examines the term "parametricism" coined by Zaha Hadid's office to describe this adaptive, fluid style.

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    This document discusses parametric design in architecture. It defines parametric design as one where parameters like height or radius can be variables or formulas rather than fixed values, allowing for different configurations. Early examples mentioned include Gaudi's chain models for La Sagrada Familia and Greg Lynn's blob architecture. Parametric architecture is described as letting structures grow systematically based on environmental relationships, using sophisticated software. Specific parametric architecture projects highlighted include 30 St Mary Axe in London, the Mercedes Benz Museum, and London City Hall. The document also examines the term "parametricism" coined by Zaha Hadid's office to describe this adaptive, fluid style.

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    This document discusses parametric design in architecture. It defines parametric design as one where parameters like height or radius can be variables or formulas rather than fixed values, allowing for different configurations. Early examples mentioned include Gaudi's chain models for La Sagrada Familia and Greg Lynn's blob architecture. Parametric architecture is described as letting structures grow systematically based on environmental relationships, using sophisticated software. Specific parametric architecture projects highlighted include 30 St Mary Axe in London, the Mercedes Benz Museum, and London City Hall. The document also examines the term "parametricism" coined by Zaha Hadid's office to describe this adaptive, fluid style.

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    This document discusses parametric design in architecture. It defines parametric design as one where parameters like height or radius can be variables or formulas rather than fixed values, allowing for different configurations. Early examples mentioned include Gaudi's chain models for La Sagrada Familia and Greg Lynn's blob architecture. Parametric architecture is described as letting structures grow systematically based on environmental relationships, using sophisticated software. Specific parametric architecture projects highlighted include 30 St Mary Axe in London, the Mercedes Benz Museum, and London City Hall. The document also examines the term "parametricism" coined by Zaha Hadid's office to describe this adaptive, fluid style.

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    Some key takeaways from the document are that parametric design uses variables and equations to define relationships between design elements, allowing for flexibility and different configurations to be easily generated. Parametric design has been used in fields like architecture, sculpture and modeling.

    Parametric design is a design approach where the parameters or variables that define the design are declared rather than the final shape. Equations are used to represent relationships between objects, allowing the design to be reconfigured by changing parameter values.

    Some examples of parametric architecture discussed are 30 St Mary Axe in London (known as The Gherkin), City Hall in London, and the Mercedes Benz Museum.

    PARAMETRICISM

    BARC 0907 SEMINAR III

    GROUP J
    UJAINEE SARKAR (022)
    KAPIL SINHA (023)
    AAKANKSHA JAIN (029)
    RIDHI SARAN (055)
    VISHAL EKKA (058)
    NIMISHA K K(068)
    PRASEEDA M (077)

    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

    THANK YOU

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