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Principles of Parametric Design

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    The aim of this course is to equip students with the essential skills and knowledge required to harness computational tools and techniques in architectural design. Through the exploration of parametric modeling, algorithms, and generative systems, students will gain the capacity to create innovative architectural forms and evaluate their performance. The course emphasizes form finding, performance-based evaluation, scripting, and the use of analysis tools for optimization. Moreover, students will delve into digital fabrication methods and become proficient in parametric tools, ultimately aiming to empower students to leverage computational design as a transformative force in shaping the future of architectural practice.
  • Course Goals
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • Responsible Consumption and Production

Requirements

ARC242

Description

  • English Description

    Parametric Modeling, algorithms, generative systems, form finding, performance-based evaluation, scripting, analysis tools, optimization methods, digital fabrication, parametric tools such as Rhino, Grasshopper.
  • Department
    Architecture Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (10) + tr.Major Assessment (50 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 30% , tr.Self_learning 15% , tr.Seminar 5% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (35)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
  • - Algorithmic Architecture, by Kostas Terzidis, Routledge, 2016
  • - Parametric Methods for Beginners: Architecture Applications By Umut Toker, Taylor and Francis, 2022
  • - Parametric Design for Architecture by Wassim Jabi (Author), Brian Johnson (Afterword), Robert Woodbury (Foreword), Quercus Publishing, 2013
  • - AAD Algorithms-Aided Design. Parametric strategies using Grasshopper by Arturo TedeschiLe, Penseur Publisher, 2014
  • - https:\www. grasshopper.com
  • - https:\ www.grasshopper3d.com