Parametricism or generative architecture - Bujorean Andrei Bogdan

From the beginning of time, architecture had a tendency of bringing in scene elements more innovative as the one before, its whole character being, in fact, in a continuously motion.                             

In the last period of time architecture started to create a new style of forms. The perception of space has a new meaning and now a simple façade or silhouette is not enough for an artistic impression, because the human eye wants a more evolved, a more dynamic image, wants to feel the architecture in a more artistic way.

The parametric architecture or the generative architecture became in the last few years a very interesting and innovative way for an architect to rediscover the space, the form, a very interesting way of playing with architecture and in the same time, a very rich research field.

The most important and helpful way for an architect to create parametric architecture is the generative design. It is a design method in which the output – image, sound, architectural models, animation – is generated by a set of rules or by an Algorithm, the computer managing to organize all the information, all the particularities in a more entropic way, giving in the same time the opportunity of making, more easily, important changes and decisions .                                                                                                                The most used generative design is based on parametric modeling. It is a fast method of exploring design possibilities which are used in various design fields such as Art, Architecture, Communication Design, and Product Design. Combining the information and the most important factors that define each of these different fields you can create an image that can impress the human eye more and more, and this is the purpose of the parametric architecture.                                                                                                                                            One of the most well known architect firm that is using this new form of design is Zaha Hadid Architects who  have created an exhibition in Denmark where you are invited  into Zaha Hadid's experimental universe of sophisticated towers, shell constructions, design objects and pioneering research. The exhibition outlines the evolution of Hadid's architectural language, showcasing its adaptations and refinements at a variety of scales: from buildings and urban plans to furniture and product designs. Each piece on show is presented within a choreographed ensemble of architectural objects, in which organic shapes and advanced geometry are unified in seamless perfection. The parametricism is able to transform simple geometry in this complex form  that is used  in all theyr  projects.

This new type of approach can be seen not only in individual buildings, but also in the architectural urbanism. 

Parametric Urbanism takes the paradigm and tools of parametric design into the domain of urbanism. The power of parametrics is usually exploited to cope with the rapid succession of design changes, for its ability to produce variations of a single building, or to generate versions of building components for a complex building geometry that does not allow for the repetition of elements. Parametric Urbanism suggests that these techniques of versioning can be applied to an array of buildings, so that a new version does not replace an older version but instead comes to join and extend the field of simultaneous versions in building up a complex urban field.

While the concept of landscape, especially since the Industrial Revolution, tends to acquire its own autonomy, pursuing a differentiation from other disciplines such as Architecture and Urban Planning (in both its aspects of planning and design), the history of the parametric as an autonomous discipline is much more recent, and is closely related to the concept of programming.

Through parametricism, architecture successfully managed not only to integrate itself in the modern era of the computers, but also to keep alive the important characteristics that influenced the concept of architecture along the time, such as nature, physics, arts, environment.