Teaching Parametric Design in Code and Construction

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Teaching Parametric Design in Code and Construction. Sean Hanna Alasdair Turner Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, University College London email: [email protected]

Parametric and generative methods of design, often incorporating explicit computer programming, represent a working method based more on procedure than geometric form. This paper reviews a recent workshop held at the Bartlett School of Architecture, using Bentley’s Generative Components software to teach parametric modelling, with a focus on digital fabrication of the projects. We propose that in the design studio of the future, these procedural techniques may help to forge a closer connection between the process of form generation and the real, constructed design in one of two ways: either in how it is built or in how it performs.

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