Parametricism

Parametric design is the latest buzz in architecture, the latest AD journal has published articles regarding this new trend. So what is parametric design? the first article described it as "... a style rooted in digital animation techniques, its latest refinements based on advanced parametric design systems and scripting methods." The article also mentioned that this style is only possible due to shared concepts, computational techniques, formal repertoires and tectonic logics. The images produced by this is definately mind-blowing, I have never seen urban design like this before. This is an example of the parametrics design, the Istanbul Masterplan by Zaha Hadid Architects. (Images from http://www.arcspace.com/architects/hadid/kartal_pendik/kp.html )

So my understanding of this style is that you have a bunch of datas, then you model them. Then this model will act based on the datas given, so if you change a building, other things will change. As 1 thing affects another as given from the data. This resulted in a fluid and continious model. After going through a few articles, searching online and asking Dan about this stuff, I feel that this is not for me. Sure it is interesting and radical but it is just too difficult to understand.