The FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape exhibition at CCA Architecture/MEDIAlab in San Francisco uses parametric modeling to define an expandable exhibition system. A “complex set of relationships defined by its formal, performative, and fabrication constraints” control a series of ribs that can be expanded by changing the parameters fed into the scripts. In this way the data, in this case student projects, creates a map of itself, separating into eight “digital practices: Stacked Aggregates, Modular Assemblages, Pixelated Fields, Cellular Clusters, Serial Iterations, Woven Meshes, Material Systems, and Emergent Environments.”
By exploiting the technology as a tool to create space, MEDIAlab goes beyond using parametric modeling as a simple representation of data and explores spatial complexities and flows created by the data.
Good post and analysis.
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