THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PARAMETRIC DESIGN PRACTICE IN ARCHITECTURE TEACHING – HOW IT CAN BE IMPLEMENTED IN INDONESIA?

Abstract

Parametric design practice has been thriving in architecture for the last decade. This development is caused by the dynamic progress of computational design technology, allowing the designer to engage in complex geometry generation and parametric optimization in the design process. The interoperability of parametric design tools with building simulation software is the key to the parametric design trend that enables designers to solve different socio-environmental problems. Considering its potencies and development, this study investigates how parametric design practice should be implemented in architecture education, especially in Indonesian universities. In different universities' teaching case studies, parametric design should be implemented in architecture teaching, starting from advanced 3D modeling and design fabrication practices. A framework of parametric design teaching is proposed, which can be feasibly implemented in the context of Indonesian universities where the awareness of parametric design trend is just growing.