Parametric design
An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about parametric design
Project • By SOMA • Apartments
WAVE
A corner site location in Achrafieh's Mar Mitr quarter imbues this project with corner-site challenges. While SOMA is renowned for double skin projects, W wears its second skin out of necessity due to location and exposure: the longer site edge faces south and the shorter one faces west and demands that one extremely important and problematic issue be solve in terms of solar and heat. A unique identity was created through this second layer skin sunscreen. Extensive research revealed that a horizontal louvered system was efficient for sun screening. The regenerated parametric design reacts to an interior program whereby the depth of the louvers is variable according to which interior function it is shading and which interior function require... More
Project • By PLASMA STUDIO • Offices
Ordos 20+10
Plasma has been selected among some of the leading Chinese and China-based international offices for the next phase of development in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. After the shortcomings of Ordos 100 (lack of cohesiveness, contextual relationships and overall identity) became clear, the local planning authority sought to explore new ways of procuring innovative and high quality architecture through the establishment of codes and rules. Each architect has been given a series of virtual volumes of which 75% of the vertices need to be retained. Plasma opted for a strategy that highlights and contrasts the Cartesian nature of the cubes with an expressive ground and internal core strategy.
Given the fact that the ground is very loose and in many... More
Project • By Franklin Azzi Architecture • Offices
Dock En Seine Offices
The Saint-Ouen Docks site has an industrial port activity past, which decay had given way to industrial wasteland, and has now become the ideal strategic location for an Eco-Neighbourhood. This labelled project is an example of an environment-driven project. The main volume of the ‘Dock en Seine’ building comprises six stories. In order to meet the necessary environmental objectives, and to overcome constraints related to streamlining of the programmes, this building was tightly packed.
Down with the very first sketches – and with the valuable assistance of its own Parametric Design Research Laboratory – studies are launched in order to determine: the structural diagram, the building depth, the percentage of facade apertures (based on th... More
Project • By Omniview Design • Private Houses
One Kleomenous
It is a private residence in the heart of Athens, Greece, that spreads over 11 floors of which 6 are above and 5 below ground level.
The facade of the building is quite possibly one of the biggest operations in CAD - CAM marble worldwide. It is made out of 2290 pieces of CNC cut marble that were manufactured to precision and assembled on site by a team of 30 people consisting of architects, project managers, sculptural engineers, stonemasons, steelmakers, sculptors and various other artists.
All the interiors are completely custom made and most of them are the outcome of CAD/CAM application. Most prominent among them is the entrance to the house, highlighted by a 9-meter inhabitable fiberglass bridge over a shallow pool.
The... More
Project • By UNS • Train stations
Qatar Integrated Railway
Ben van Berkel / UNStudio designs over 30 stations in the first phase of the Doha Metro Network.
Qatar Rail has appointed UNStudio as the principal architect for the Qatar Integrated Railway Project (QIRP).
The Metro Network, the key component of the QIRP - with phase 1 planned to include around 35 stations and phase 2, around 60 stations - will serve as the backbone of the public transport system in the Greater Doha Area (GDA). The full network is planned to comprise four lines connecting the GDA as well as Al Khor, and Al Wakrah-Mesaieed communities located north and south of Doha respectively.
The goal of the QIRP is to create a service which encourages the use of public transportation as a valid alternative to private transport... More
Project • By EXarchitects • Restaurants
Chiringuito La Moraga
Project built in 2012 afterwinning, in collaboration with the cheff owner Josué Rodríguez.
Singular construction in Adra (Almería), based on parametric design with Grasshopper. Itis a project of modular wooden architecture: OSB waterproof + pineslatsover light woodenframe.
The whole project is based on theconstruction of a plane perpendicular to thesun at the time of higher affluence of people during summer time. With that purpose on mind, and combining some other factors such as aesthetic o rbudget, the Project has been optimized and developed with parametric tools, and finally was built on July 2012.
A 100% parametric Project, in wich parametrical design tools as well as digital manufacturing tools have been presents during the w... More
Project • By EXarchitects • Restaurants
Xiringoscopio
The concept is based on the knowledge and idiosyncrasy of the place, how the sea front is used, and the customs and habits of the people of Adra. The importance of the harbour mouth, the Green and Red lights, all of them important spots of th etown for walk and recreation.
The construction of a gazebo element that point to the mouth of the harbour arises, giving a view of one of the local atractions, because with the sunset, there are many locals that go for a walk on the promenade, enjoying the drop of temperatures and watching fishing ships going out to the sea.
Therefore, what it is sough tis to create a Chiringuito that allows to enjoy this alive picture, as well as enjoy the local gastronomy
To reach that objective, parametri... More
Project • By VAA.ONL - the innovation studio of VAA. • Factories
Acoustic Barrier
The rules of the design game. The brief is to combine the 1.5km long sound reflecting barrier with an industrial building of 5000m2. The concept of the Acoustic Barrier including the Cockpit building is to design with the speed of passing traffic since the building is seen from the perspective of the driver. Cars, powerboats and planes are streamlined to diminish the drag. The swarm of cars streams with a speed of 120 km/h along the acoustic barrier. The barrier is seen and experienced as an one mile long building seen from the perspective of the highway. One of the main design rules is that the length of the built volume of the embedded Cockpit emerging from the Acoustic Barrier is 10 times more than its height. Only then it is guaranteed... More
Project • By Rudolf Müller • Offices
M and V Branch Office
Converting the building of a former garage, body shop and paint shop into a branch office of a company selling hardware and metal machining toolware falls within the projects that you simply need if you still desire to make endless search for the relationship between architecture and its surroundings, to historical and future development, and to detail. Or, the desire to search and to deliver as well, to put it more precisely. The aim is not to be bound by previously taken decisions, on the contrary, following critical discussions with experts, to select the seemingly best solution and to feel the client’s support. Subsequently, the whole process results in the absence of extremes, i.e. unilateral and pointless architectural exhibition and... More
Project • By Barault Architects • Bars
Galazia Akti, Seaside resort
Galazia Akti Resort sits in a vast area of 30.000 sq.m. and includes a 600 sq.m structure right on the beach that serves as a restaurant, self service area and lounge. Additional facilities include a beach bar, sunbeds area, VIP area, playground, changing rooms, restrooms and parking.
The first issue the architects had to tackle was the location itself. The site all year long is hit by the sun, winds and humidity, making it very challenging in terms of choosing materials that would endure the weather conditions and deciding what kind of structure would be appropriate in a beach environment without altering the scenery. Another challenge was that the facilities were scattered around the site with no clear routes or sense of orientation.... More
Project • By coletivo-rt • Exhibitions
SONAR installation
Do the sounds of the street have shape?
This installation was conceived and built during the 1st Parametric Design Workshop at Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (UNICAP), Brazil, a pioneer initiative in the State, which focused on applying Grasshopper and Rhinoceros softwares as a design tool. For six days, a group of 25 architecture students and young architects, under the guidance of professors Victor Sardenberg, Ana Luisa Rolim and Robson Canuto da Silva, gathered to discuss theoretical aspects of and practice parametric design, aiming to build temporary low-budget installations at UNICAP campus. The Sonar was one of these installations.
As opposed to typical campuses in Brazil, mostly designed under modern architecture princip... More
Project • By Atelier I-N-D-J • Bars
G9 Lane Crawford shanghai
G九上海 (G9 Shanghai) is a restaurant space set within a dramatic triple height space that is part of main land China's first luxury department store; Lane Crawford.
From the projects inception Atelier I-N-D-J founder Ian Douglas-Jones led the projects ambitions – “the unusually proportioned space just had to be exploited and celebrated, early on I had persuaded the client that this presented an opportunity to create something that subverts preconceptions” All elements of the project have been carefully considered; from bespoke furniture to a super scaled interactive light installation that terminates in a major site specific art work by British Artist INSA, this collaborative piece sees the 956 lights of the light installation merge with t... More
Product • By After-Form by Oleg Soroko • Scate chair
Scate chair
Parametric furniture collection.The furniture from this collection consists of several benches of a nonlinear, dynamic form, made of plywood and coated with oil. These benches are also sculptures, and when installed immediately become a dominant in the space. Some benches from the collection can be found on the street New Arbat in Moscow, as well as in offices around the world, and at Muscat International Airport in Oman.
Dimensions: L - 1530 mm W -1370 mm H - 1030 mmWeight: 180 kg
Materials: birch plywood / metal rods / Osmo oil
Scate chair is available in different colorsDelivery disassembled More
Project • By Next Level Studio • Sculptures
Parametric Structure No.2
The object is a part of the solved interior in a family house on the residential part in Uherske Hradiste. The entire interior is painted in monochrome shades of white and grey. Space for the location of the structure is only 95 cm wide and 5 m high. The structure takes advantage of this strange narrow-high corridor and two "strands" run out against the stairs.
The object itself belongs somewhere between architecture construction, design subject and art work. Due to the technical and financial demands of the design, the organic form is designed from individual linear elements from very soft material comatex. The resulting curves are assembled from these components and creates a free-flowing surface.
When changing the perspective of an... More
Project • By Next Level Studio • Bars
Cafebar
The owners of the small pension succeeded in purchasing the neighbouring building of an old family house of the countryside type. The commission involved designing and realization of the café with the bar “in the modern spirit” over an extremely short time and without the possibility of radical construction adaptations to the already reconstructed building.
The bar counter is situated at the front of the space providing the finest view of the area. The steel structure of the bar counter is clad with chipboard panels sealed and treated with paint. Some of the appliances are inserted under the bar and some of them are integrated into the side wall. The niches of the front wall serve for displaying both the drinks and glasses. The niches ar... More