Parametric Patterns Inspired by Nature for Responsive Building Façade

Abstract

Architects and designers developed in the past few years various methods of design; specially form generation techniques, inspiration and motivation sources were differed but most of them intended common goals such as achieve sustainability and utilize hi-tech and information technology. In recent years generative systems in nature have become a source of inspiration for architects. Rather than viewing design as a top-down, linear, and goal-oriented procedure, they seek to understand underlying rules and principles of natural systems, which produce structural order and material organization of high complexity, efficiency, and beauty. This paper investigates how parametrically controlled systems can be applied to architectural design in order to achieve more responsive and adaptive modelling techniques.