Proposal: The role of parametric process in making of spatial system Review-1

RAVI UA 2108 CEPT UNIVERSITY

Abstract

“All design is always limited by its tools. The boundaries of what can be

represented within our design medium are the boundaries of our design

speculation, in effect the boundaries of our discipline. What cannot be

represented and operationalized within our design media remains outside the

designer’s realm of competency. Once this is understood what should strike us

with respect to our contemporary situation is not so much its limitations as the

extraordinary recent expansion of the boundaries of possible design

speculation, an expansion that continues year by year since. In contrast, before

the digital design revolution, the discipline’s design speculation was confined

within the very narrow confines of the system of ortho-graphic projections that

had not changed much in the preceding 500 years.”- Patrick Schumacher.

The research is about exploring parametric process in generating spatial

system. In this process grasshopper is used as a computational tool to apply

parametric principal on built environment. The study also looked at application

of grasshopper in generating elements of built environment. By using

parametric design , what is the method to create controlled built environment

in grasshopper. The possibilities to enhance building performance by

parametric modelling also been explored through this research.

Research topic

Understanding the role of parametric process in making of spatial system with

reference to a computational tool : Grasshopper.

Area of study

Parametric architecture

Hypothesis

Grasshopper is a medium to simulate output of parametric process on spatial

system

Aim

To understand the application of grasshopper inn terms of making built

environment through parametric process.

Objective

Explore implementation of grasshopper on design phase.

How grasshopper help to evolve concept into reality.

How parametric modelling help to explore various design possibilities .

Tentative Chapterization

Ch- 1 Introduction of parametric design and its origin

Ch-2 Concept and evaluation of parametric system

Ch-3 Grasshopper :Computational tools for parametric design

Ch-4 Case study

Ch-5 Conclusion

Data collection

Case study of building which fully evolve out of parametric process

Case study of contemporary building in india which use parametric process as

design tool

Case study of building element which use grasshopper as a tool to generate

design

Proposed methodology

The research will try to understand parametric process and it’s origin and

what it’s development in present time. The first of all , we will try to

understand fundamental principal of parametric process and what are the

computational tools through which parametric modelling can be done.

The study partly relies on the secondary sources of information such as

books, thesis documents and periodicals for the theoretical base; while the

case studies have been done by the author as first hand reference.

In order to create a background for understanding our research, different

building’s scale would be taken in order to understand how parametric

process effects elements of building .

Scope

To explore implementation of parametric process on design phase.

Role of grasshopper in generating parametric modelling.

Limitation

Parametric design is a vast subject, so research will restrict to only certain

scale of building to understand parametric process in depth.

Research has not been looked at parametric application in different field of

design, it will only restrict to architectural design process.

Keywords

Parametric design

Generative modelling

Parameters

Bibliography

Books

Mark Bury, Parametric modelling: Grasshopper.

Patrik Schumacher, The autopoiesis of architecture

Robert woodbury, Elements of parametric design.

Unpublished Thesis

K. KAVI SUMI , parametric design – a new paradigm in architecture Hardik j. amin ,Generative design: Parametric technique for formal and

spatial articulation.

Ramaswamy sakhivel , Biomimicry : An analysis of contemporary biomimetic

approaches .

JayanJayant khanuja , Understanding algorithms in design with reference to

voronoi diagrams.

Articles

In-Between Theory and Practice : Patrik Schumacher