The Parametric Nature of Life Systems

This work explores the juxtaposition between digital systems and the organisation of life systems by observing their underlying processes from the perspective of architectural form finding. At it’s heart it seeks to understand how parametric design, an algorithmic approach to form generation, reflects the behaviour of life systems, both structurally and aesthetically, stating that they are interwoven through shared, patterns, logics, functionings and forms and making a case for the inherent similarities between carbon-based and silicone-based communication. From this perspective parametric algorithms become more than a design tool, they becomes a philosophy that mirrors biological evolution. Parametricism and tectonism are not merely architectural styles but a bridge between past and future, biology and code, the digital and the deeply organic.