New essence of architectural skins: A comparative study between parametric and ordinary designed buildings

Abstract

This study discusses architectural skins in buildings with parametric design to verify whether they have specific and clear limitations with the other surfaces. This is an important characteristic of the essence of the architectural skins in buildings designed in ordinary ways, or whether there is ambiguity in that, and it is not easy to distinguish between the components of the architectural form of those buildings. The purpose of this study is to explore whether the new technology, represented by parametric design, makes the architectural skins of buildings lose their leadership of other components in the composition and presentation of the architectural form of the buildings, to allow the emergence of new essences for architectural skins of buildings with parametric design. This process will be based on a comparative study between buildings designed in ordinary ways and buildings designed with parametric design, to examine whether technology has changed architectural skins and made them lose part of their essence and role, by comparing them with the basic components of architectural skins essence.