Parametric Designing in Architecture

This essay aims to discuss the issue: whether it is appropriate to apply parametric technology in modern architecture design and construction process. It will start with a discussion about the pros and cons that parametric design has, which providing different opinions from the architectural industry. After that, it argues, the benefits of using parametric design overweigh the drawbacks, and it may be valuable to develop this technology in the future. Next, it would take Dubai international airport case as an example to discuss how the parametric design applicate during whole design and construction process. Then, this paper will evaluate this technology in the field of economic and environment respectively. Finally, the conclusion reveals as, although the drawbacks exist, there is still arrays of advantages people could gain by applying this technology.

Scientific Visualization

This paper is based on the PhD research work "Supporting the Use of Parametric Design in Architecture". One of the key factors in design and analysis of empirical research in parametric computer-aided design in architecture is the comprehensive and justified measurement metrics of parametric modelling effectiveness. Introduced studies agree about the same thing that some of the parametric design systems are parametric rules and strategies. There is an obvious gap between traditional design principles and methods, rules of algorithmic modelling. For understanding of this gap there is an algorithm identification along with its parametric research, that allows to encrypt ideas in the language of textual and visual type of programming. This paper describes the evaluation criteria, methodology and application procedures for measuring the effectiveness of parametric modelling and design ideation, which was developed as a part of the comparative study (on-going PhD research work) titled "Supporting the Use of Parametric Design in Architecture".

Master's Thesis, 2023

During recent decades, under the remarkable scientific revolution and limitless technological leaps, computational systems have evolved into an essential factor of architectural design. It is where design knowledge and generative principles come together. There is a clear gap between traditional design principles, methods, and algorithmic modeling rules. To understand this gap, there is an identification of algorithms along with parametric studies that can encode ideas in the textual and visual languages of programming. This is a critical factor in forming parametricism methodology, which facilitates multidisciplinary interaction and simulates a wide range of design alternatives based on the design parameters. As well as, a required method for design exploration. The word "parametricism" refers to an epoch-defining, universal style of architecture that encompasses all design disciplines. Also, it serves as a crucial standard for future architectural design. This study describes criteria, methodology, and application procedures for measuring the effectiveness of parametric modeling and design ideation. A literature review emphasized the key aspects and effects of the parametric procedure on the architectural output. It introduced an approach that helps use the key vocabulary of "Integrating Parametric Modeling into the Architectural Design Process", which aids in exploring and evaluating the applicability of parametric design through five contemporary international projects. For achieving the objective of the study, a theoretical framework was re evaluated that supports creative practice. This defines the various aspects of parametric modeling in architectural design and serves as a practical framework for a concurrent case study. The developed framework may provide an alternative approach in which parametric design will be applied to address the multilingual aspects of the design process and design thinking. The relevance of parametric design in space design exploration in contemporary architecture is theoretically covered in this study. Also, it defines the aims of exploration, the roles of exploration in a design process, the sequence of exploration activities in a design process. The workflow is as follows: determining the solution space; generating parametric solution sets; exploring design iterations; followed by a comprehensive revision of the parametric model, which then goes back to either generating design sets again or returning to exploring design iterations, and finally, choosing the optimal solution. The outcome will be a systematic framework for parametric design thinking. To improve the contemporary discourse of architecture by bringing existing tools into the design procedure in architectural design. The results indicated that parametric prospect determinants must be conformed to add new layers at any time without compromising the model and to keep the design process up to date with contemporary advances dominated by technological and qualitative cognition and shifting paradigms.

Automation in Construction, 2000

During the last few years there has been an extraordinary development of computer-aided tools intended to present or communicate the results of architectural projects. But there has not been a comparable progress in the development of tools intended to assist design to generate architectural forms in an easy and interactive way. Even worse, architects who use the powerful means provided by computers as a direct tool to create architectural forms are still an exception. Architecture continues to be produced by traditional means using the computer as little more than a drafting tool. The main reasons that may explain this situation can be identified rather easily, although there will be significant differences of opinion. In my opinion, it is a mistake trying to advance too rapidly and, for instance, proposing integrated design methods using expert systems and artificial intelligence while no adequate tools to generate and modify simple 3D-models are available. The modeling tools we have at the present moment are unsatisfactory. Their principal limitation is the lack of appropriate instruments to modify interactively the model once it has been created. This is a fundamental aspect in any design activity, where the designer is constantly going forward and backwards, re-elaborating once and again some particular aspect of the model, or its general layout, or even coming back to a previous solution that had been temporarily abandoned. This paper presents a general summary of the actual situation and recent developments that may be incorporated to architectural design tools in a near future, together with some critical remarks about their relevance to architecture.

Journal of graphic engineering and design

This paper explores the creation of architectural structures through parametric design tools. The proposed methodology presents an alternative framework of using digital tools for the product design development from the design thinking point of view. The main core of the suggested design process includes a great number of theoretical issues from design identity, design language and architectural design areas. As a result, designers can develop constructions for public spaces that are based on innovative morphologies by using new digital design techniques such as computational design (Rhino3D and Grasshopper). The development of an architectural structure that aims to bring greenery into the city and increase the rest and action spaces is presented. A valuable aspect of this exploration is in positioning the proposed design framework inside - to aid in the creative process and better leverage downstream outcomes. The final steps of the proposed methodology include the production of t...

Journal of Al-Azhar University Engineering Sector, 2019

Recently in architecture, the need for rapid automatic exploration of design solutions that respond to complex design requirements through coded systems using computation techniques led to the inception of what is called Parametric Design. It facilities the process of performance based design to integrate performance evaluation of a certain design requirement with optimization techniques to choose near optimum solutions and neglect the bad ones in early design phases affecting form generation. The main objective of this paper is to illustrate parametric design process which consists of four steps connected during conceptual design phase; Parametrization, Generation, Evaluation and Optimization, and enhancing performance in buildings.

2017

Parametric design is an emerging research issue in the design domain. However, discussions about the creative process in parametric design are limited. What is more, despite the passing of 57 years of parametric design's existence we still do not know what parametric design is. Is it a simple tool, which is useful in some kind of optimization of the architectural form, or it is a medium, which helps architects develop unexpected solutions, and perhaps this is already a new design paradigm? The presented paper will contain general considerations relating to the nature of parametric design, the history of which starts in 1960, when D.T. Ross has formulated the thesis that our main objective is to formulate constrains and all needed parameters of the solved problem.Please write your abstract here by clicking this paragraph.

Citeseer

Disciplines outside of engineering, for instance, architecture, are adopting parametric modelling as a design representation. This paper reports on three aspects of the adoption process, which is largely being conducted through multi-day workshops outside of formal university course settings. Fist, the structure and process of such workshops may be a model for interdisciplinary learning and university-industry liaison. Second, students learning parametric modelling must master skill different from that required for non-parametric representation. Third, the parametric modelling strategies being developed in architecture may have both similarities and differences to those used in engineering.

In the digital age computer simulation of evolutionary processes has been integrated into architectural design in order to generate, manipulate and visualize non-standard and complex forms. Parametric design has major role in the process of form exploration and generation of design instances within its family via altering values of the parameterized schema. This paper demonstrates an emergent methodology of parametric form generation and form-finding in architectural design which is known as a parametric design procedure. The paper starts with definition of parametric modeling and parametric design methods then analyzing of using a parametric design procedure for generating columns at the church of Sagrada Familia by Gaudi. A geometrical and topological transformation can be done through this approach to overcome the restrictions of parametric modeling, thus an infinite number of unprecedented design instances can be generated.