Parametric Animation

Author

• Peter Atwood

Files

Date of Award

2012

Document Type

Thesis

Handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10365/20227

Publisher

North Dakota State University

Rights

NDSU Policy 190.6.2

URI

https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf

Abstract

This project, Parametric Animation, aims to test the potential of parametric structures as an architectural design tool. Although this tool is not new in the architectural design community, the variety of its applications are limited and the unfamiliar depths of its potential invite new investigations. These new investigations in architectural design will be most instrumental and welcome in developing countries where, as the productivity of particular objects grows rapidly, so too does the necessity for large scale and efficient design. Parametric structuring as design has the potential to accomplish the architectural requirements of the rapid production of objects, it is simply the most logical solution. Yet it also has the power to create a stagnation of the society that manifest these objects. A building must not only create a relationship between itself and objects but also the specific society within which it is situated. Above all it must maintain the relationship between a society and their specific object. So far parametric structuring has only accomplished the limited scope of necessity, yet it must understand that the relationships between buildings, necessity, objects and societies are not separate and rather intertwined. The animation which parametric structuring gives to necessity it can also give to objects and the societies who created them. The most simple description of this project is a transit station located in Caxias do Sul, Brazil with a square footage of forty thousand.

Recommended Citation

Atwood, Peter, "Parametric Animation" (2012). Architecture Theses. 854.
https://digitalcommons.ndsu.edu/architecture-theses/854