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Design as a basketmaker
Optimize as an engineer
Think as a programmer
Surf slopes as a mathematician
Build as an athlete
And make the computers compute
The UPCSchool MPDA Master’s degree Parametric Design in Architecture is an international program that seeks to teach and explore technology efficiency. MPDA is oriented to the integration of computational tools and digital manufacturing technology in building systems and architectural design. MPDA focuses in :
Design and optimization of lightweight building systems, mainly through form-finding processes, including tensile architecture.
Integration with professional workflows and industrial standards, although keeping a wide space for experimentation, research and industry oriented innovation.
Guiding computational thinking and tools to the simplification of processes: the generation of efficient form by efficient means, namely lightweightness, material efficiency, rationalization of complex surfaces, cutouts reduction, path minimizations, reusability, deployability.
The architectural project is a complex process, in which knowledge management must be linked to design in an operational way. In this regard, parameters are all the categories of information that affect decision-making when a project is carried out. This is the aim of parametric architecture: to go beyond geometry and the form, in order to design a system taking in all the variables/categories involved in the process. This is the potential offered by modern software tools and programming frameworks (Grasshopper, Python), which change the design process, making architects into builders of systems.