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 designers 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 disciplines 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 its origin and what its 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 buildings 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