Tuesday 18 August 2009

090818 Parametricism Definition

Quoted from Ophelia Fletcher on Parametricism that:

" ... Parametricism is a methodologically justified style that takes the concept of using parametric form design from the production of a one-off building and applying it to a cityscape. "

" ... Architecture and urbanism should be tackled as a set of linked design criteria which form a complete “system” in a building, from urbanism down to the smallest details. "

"... Parametric design links all this information in a way similar to a spreadsheet so that a change in one value creates a corresponding change in all other values. Biological systems, organisms, from the microscopic to the macroscopic – These kinds of inputs stay in the repertoire. There’s also mathematics – new mathematics – topological patterns and also what is having an impact is new modelling tools and more recently parametric modelling, parametric fields and scripted fields, a new sensibility with respect to orders of iteration. Looking through these new tools there’s a kind of intricacy of overall arrangement with a very high degree of coherence. There are a lot of internal laws of correlation; everything relates to everything else. It’s a continuous change but it all fits together. It’s not random or arbitrary ... "

World Architecture Community

http://www.worldarchitecture.org/theory-issues/?position=detail&no=253


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