Parametric Toolbox Studio 2023-3

With Anat Talmor

We live in an era of unprecedented technological boom, which affects almost every aspect of our lives. At the same time, we hear about the approaching ecological disaster and experience firsthand the increasing crowding in Israel. Advanced parametric tools are becoming more and more common in recent years and many studies have shown how they can be used to improve the quality of design. Parametric Design should help us address issues like sustainability, analysis, optioneering, optimization, fabrication and more. Yet despite all this, in most cases we approach the problem of architectural design in almost the same way that the previous generations did.

The approach underlying the studio sees the architect as a TOOL MAKER, not limited by software capabilities, who uses customized code to promote design ideas. In this studio we will learn how to think parametrically and express our design ideas as algorithms. We will implement the algorithms with the help of GRASSHOPPER - an associative parametric programming tool.