For our studio assignment, we have been charged with creating an "ideal" house. This ideal house project is framed as an interative process, where we design a house a day for 100 days. In many ways, this is my first investigation into parametric design for building type scales. Parametric design, at least in my experience, is most often applied to small scale sculpture work where a physical output is fabricated. In my first attempts, I investigated three "floors" with parametric blocks occupying these. The relationships of the blocks are created from an offest distance from an outer 20' x 20' square and a length ratio. The height offset of each floor also becomes parametric.
This studio is modeled from http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.
Given this is my first iteration, I expect more fully to grasp the power and the design ability of parametrics in my next iteration. The most difficult part is framing the use of parametrics on such an open ended question as a "cube" and a "flat" site.
Here is my first exploration in defining parametrics for the ideal house: The Ideal House in the 21st centruy is one that adapts and changes to its exterior environment. It is a dynamic object, tuning intself to the flows of the environment and the technological culture of its inhabitants. It is constructed in ways that permit it to be reconfigured, adapted, and reused. It is not static, althought it does exhibit a degree of permanence to fulfill that longing people have for their home as a sign of stability. It is constructed from pieces from all over the world. It is mass customized. It communicates a higher spatial order through relationships between room sizes, window openings, and other architectural features. In this way, the viewer's mind is constantly engaged, noticing the subtle hint of parametric code defining the framework for the architecture.
This studio is modeled from http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.
Given this is my first iteration, I expect more fully to grasp the power and the design ability of parametrics in my next iteration. The most difficult part is framing the use of parametrics on such an open ended question as a "cube" and a "flat" site.
Here is my first exploration in defining parametrics for the ideal house: The Ideal House in the 21st centruy is one that adapts and changes to its exterior environment. It is a dynamic object, tuning intself to the flows of the environment and the technological culture of its inhabitants. It is constructed in ways that permit it to be reconfigured, adapted, and reused. It is not static, althought it does exhibit a degree of permanence to fulfill that longing people have for their home as a sign of stability. It is constructed from pieces from all over the world. It is mass customized. It communicates a higher spatial order through relationships between room sizes, window openings, and other architectural features. In this way, the viewer's mind is constantly engaged, noticing the subtle hint of parametric code defining the framework for the architecture.
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