Parametric Approach in Designing Large Scale Urban Architectural Objects
2009
Arne Riekstins, Jānis Briņķis

When all disciplines of various science fields converge and develop, new approaches for contemporary architecture arise. Author looks towards approaching digital architecture from parametric viewpoint, revealing its generative capacity, originating from the fields of aeronautical, naval, automobile and product-design industries. Author also goes explicitly through his design cycle workflow for testing latest methodologies in architectural design. The design process steps involved: extrapolating valuable statistical data about the site into three-dimensional diagrams, defining certain materiality of what is being produced, ways of presenting structural skin and structure simultaneously, contacting the object with the ground, interior program definition of the building with floors and possible spaces, logic of fabrication, CNC milling of the prototype. The author’s developed tool that is reviewed in this research features enormous performative capacity and is applicable to various architectural design scales. Aesthetic quality can be discussed widely to an extent, whether new intervention scenarios open up the need for new architect’s role to become a hybrid architect – specializing in more than what we once were doing in the field of architecture just a decade ago.


Keywords
Parametriskā arhitektūra, asociativitāte, augšupvērsta projektēšana, statistika, ĢIS, daudzfunkcionalitāte

Riekstiņš, A., Briņķis, J. Parametric Approach in Designing Large Scale Urban Architectural Objects. Architecture and Urban Planning. Vol.3, 2009, pp.40-51. ISSN 1691-4333.

Publication language
Latvian (lv)
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