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Parametric Design Method for Personalized Bras
Published in Marcelo M. Soares, Francisco Rebelo, Tareq Z. Ahram, Handbook of Usability and User Experience, 2022
“Parametric design, or parametric modeling, is a CAD technique that uses parameters or variables (numbers, length, points or curves, etc.) to rule, clarify, and encode the relationship between design intent and design response” (Jabi, 2013). Baek and Lee, in their study of parametric human body shape (Baek and Lee, 2012), utilize the parametric design method to integrate the human body shape and size into multiple applications. Other researchers, such as Wang and Shatin, also explore the parametric design methods using mannequins to study human bodies (Wang and Shatin, 2005). These cutting-edge studies provide us valuable experience on how to manipulate the body data, define the parameters and construct the relationship between design inputs and outputs. In this study, our software platform is the Rhino CAD program with Grasshopper Plug-in, which allows us to visualize the logic behind the parametric algorithm on a flowchart-styled processor, adjust the parameter values and reform the 3D models in real-time.
Towards An Adaptive Urbanism Beyond Hard Control: The Theories Of Johnson And Lefebvre
Published in Manuel Couceiro da Costa, Filipa Roseta, Joana Pestana Lages, Susana Couceiro da Costa, Architectural Research Addressing Societal Challenges, 2017
N. Abbasabadi, M. Ashayeri Jahan Khanemloo
The use of emergent and self-organized patterns in the urban design and planning as parametric urbanism has great potential to develop the systematic analysis and following arguments to alternatives for future cities. Parametric design as a technical procedure allows one to rapidly generate different design alternatives by simply changing the values of a particular parameter to facilitate decision-making during the creation process. We can now create, simulate and analyze self-organizing patterns to surprising levels of complexity that can perform as the fundamental basis of understanding the process in the urban environment through digital tools. Parametric practices are not similar to traditional digital design implementations regarding the capability of patterns to transform from one type to another through the design process, and to support generating and examining a large number of outcomes from a simplistic replacement of a particular parameter value. The parametric paradigm grants its resultant patterns the significant adaptability to modify and develop at any step of the design process, but ensuring the keeping of compatibility and orderly character.
Metadesigning Customizable Houses
Published in Branko Kolarevic, José Pinto Duarte, Mass Customization and Design Democratization, 2018
Parametric design is now commonly understood as an enabling digital technology for an infinite variation of shapes and forms, either through the embedded, inherent ways in which geometry is represented within the chosen drawing and modeling software or via visual programming aids or scripting. By assigning different values to the parameters, different objects or configurations can be created. Equations can be used to describe the relationships between objects, thus defining an associative geometry in which geometric elements (points, lines, shapes, etc.) are mutually linked. That way, interdependencies between objects can be established, and objects’ behavior under transformations defined.17
Spatial reasoning as a syntactic method for programming socio-spatial parametric grammar for vertical residential buildings
Published in Architectural Science Review, 2020
In the field of architecture, computational models are widely used for processing the design in its various stages – including analysis, simulation, and generation – efficiently and accurately. Parametric design is an interactive computational based approach, which is used for understanding the logic and the language embedded in the design process algorithmically and mathematically (Terzidis 2006; Woodbury 2010). In the parametric model, the geometric properties of objects and correlations between each other are clearly defined as rules and relationships (Oxman and Gu 2015). When this model is implemented, designers can revise parameters and rules to modify their designs at any stage. Accordingly, this flexibility in the design allows the emergence of unexpected solutions (Fernandes 2013; Jabi 2013).
Development of the layout method for a high-rise housing complex using parametric algorithm
Published in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2020
Algorithm-based parametric design methods are useful in searching for various solutions to a specific design problem. Parametric algorithm design methods are used to explore diverse geometric forms of buildings and are often integrated with functional performance simulations of buildings including various environmental performances (Fesanghary, Asadi, and Geem 2012; Mark 2012). Additionally, algorithm-driven parametric design methods enable the evaluation of building performances while also generating and analysing multiple design alternatives catered to meet specific design goals (Shi and Yang 2013; Turrin, Von Buelow, and Stouffs 2011). One advantage of these algorithm-based parametric design methods is that the performance-evaluated design solutions can be easily adjusted in response to the changes that occur during the design process; this allows for significant flexibility and versatility (Caldas and Norford 2002). Additionally, the adaptability of parametric algorithm design methods enables the design process to be more efficient than conventional design methods with regard to the time, labour and cost required; this can be attributed to the parametric algorithm design methods’ use of automatic procedures for generating the most suitable performance solutions (Caldas and Norford 2003). Both of these advantages promote the implementation of the algorithm-based parametric design methods in pursuing sustainable design approaches for various building types (Shi and Yang 2013; Wang, Zmeureanu, and Rivard 2005).
Smart processes for smart buildings: ‘sustainable processes’, ‘recyclable processes’ and ‘building seeds’ in parametric design
Published in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2019
Adonis Haidar, Jason Underwood, Paul Coates
The apparent reason for this conflict is that the mere theoretical knowledge of R2 and the lack of practical experience of C1 have led them to understand parametric design as a design method to be used as an alternative to traditional methods for the whole design process or for a whole stage within the design process. In contrast, the robust experience of the experts enabled them to reveal the potential of parametric design in relation to specific activities and specific tasks within the different design stages, such as driving a specific repetitive task, providing schedules for differential façade panels, or generating stadium seats within a CAD-driven design processes as in the previous examples. These examples show the flexibility of parametric design that enables it to be utilised to solve specific problems within the design process, rather than solely being used as an alternative to traditional methods. Parametric design is a flexible design methodology that can fit itself within a traditional CAD-driven process without replacing or even disrupting the process.