Architecture continues to develop to be more innovative and creative. Parametric design is one of the approaches that many architects around the world use. It involves creating a digital design to generate geometric shapes from a large amount of data.
Innovative method, formal optimization
Recent computer technologies have had a significant impact on design, construction and architecture. Previously, computer tools were only used in certain fields such as aeronautics or the automotive industry. Now, this is no longer the case. Indeed, the knowledge of computer languages, programming and trigonometry are now applied to the architectural field. Thus was born parametric architecture. It presents a total break with traditional architecture insofar as the parameters interact in a non-predetermined way; the goal of this method is to generate a form that would be the “best†possible. This is why parametric architecture is also called performative architecture. More precisely, parametric architecture consists in developing a model where several parameters can be changed. This way, each time a parameter is changed, new possibilities are generated. These parameters can be either lengths, segments, curvatures… they can concern all kinds of elements of the design.