Parametricism

We are now live in the time of post Fordism. It is the era of people use thing differently. In Fordism period people use everything the same because it is the age of mass production. Technology back then does not allow us to have a lot of choices. But now as the new technologies were invented, people are allowed to choose or even custom made thing. If we talk about Fordism, we would think of Ford car the model T. In the past the model T has came out in only two colors. But now people can buy car in any color as they wish or even has a custom painted car.

Beside the example of something tangible like car, another example can be found on the virtual, Internet search. In every computer has it’s own DNA. That DNA is the memory of the usage of each computer. From the example in the class, Ajarn Taylor searched the word Jordan and let us searched it as well. He got the result came out to be about Michael Jordan but many of us got the country Jordan or Air Jordan. Another one is key word that we searched in class was meaning of life. For me the first thing that I got after the search is Mormon.org because I have a lot of connection to mormons. But for others got something like movie or something else. So the technology allow the market to be more customize according to how the customer wants

Parametricism is a new style for architecture that derives the form from the parameter of the field. Parameters in every field are distinctive. Even that the site stay empty but what is never empty is the field it is why the parameter can be extracted from the field. Every single element of fenestration may be different sizes according to how we want it to be according to the parameter and our intention. In addition, because of the advancement in technology that was stated above, it allowed us to have the custom made window frame. So the parametric building is design for only one particular site because it comes from the parameter of the field surround.

Guang Zhou Opera House, Zaha Hadid