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What is Parametric Design

Chapter 29
Handbook of Research on Visual Computing and Emerging Geometrical Design Tools
Parametric design introduces geometry from a mathematical-algorithmic viewpoint (Woodbury, 2010 AU61: The in-text citation "Woodbury, 2010" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). It proposes the generation of a geometry based on the definition of a family of initial parameters of dimensions and the relationships between them. In the design process, algorithms and advanced computing resources are not simply used to represent forms and control complex geometries but to create dynamic and variable design possibilities. The result is not a single solution but rather a family of possible solutions. The variables and algorithms create a tree or matrix of geometric relationships by calculating the range of possible design solutions according to the variability of the initial parameters and components selected.
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Folds and Refolds: Space Generation, Shapes, and Complex Components
Mauro Chiarella (Universidad Nacional del Litoral-CONICET, Argentina)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0029-2.ch029
Abstract
Geometry and architecture both have a long trajectory in the history of western thought. Geometry offers the possibility to interpret the physical structure of the world and to develop rational thinking, while architecture provides the capacity to transform the physical substance and meaning of our surroundings. Diverse developments in the field of geometric representation have determined the characteristics of architectural space: from the modulated rigour of Classicism and the birth of Euclidean geometry, to contemporary informalism with the incorporation of digital mathematical calculation and intense questioning and reconsideration of traditional Cartesian space. The two-dimensional constant and dynamic projection of a three-dimensional spatial situation has been upheld since the time of simple spatial-temporal allegories of the architectural project up until the new developments with unconventional instrumental resources, generating innovative structural, formal, spatial and technological solutions.
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Transiting between Representation Technologies and Teaching/Learning Descriptive Geometry: Reflections in an Architectural Context
For parametric design is meant the generation process forms whose constituent elements are not geometrically determined in a static manner, but using variables whose values are specified in each case. In parametric design systems elements can be changed later without that overall consistency is changed. This requires the specification of the restrictive properties that affect selectively some of the elements of the form or the relationship that some have with each other (Monedero, 2000 AU41: The in-text citation "Monedero, 2000" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
Published in Chapter: Transiting between Representation Technologies and Teaching/Learning Descriptive Geometry: Reflections in an Architectural Context; From: Handbook of Research on Visual Computing and Emerging Geometrical Design Tools
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