Can qualitative ideas of place be adequately encompassed by the quantitative methods of digital and parametric design? This wide-ranging and multi-faceted book explores how designers and architects capture the deeper qualities of place though their practice. It provides a rigorous exploration of the nature of place and its role in design in parallel with a detailed analysis of the nature of parametricism.
Parametric design aims to encompass all design criteria and values relating to how a building might be experienced by using algorithmic processes and computational technology. By inputting particular parameters, all elements could be reflected in the resulting design. Drawing on ideas and approaches from diverse, disciplinary perspectives, essays in this book argue for greater attentiveness to place in contemporary design practice, and consider the potential of parametric techniques to enhance the engagement with place in design contexts. Considering place beyond the designer’s touch, chapters explore other creative disciplines such as literature, art and music, seeking commonalities across the realm of imaginative endeavour in the creation of a tangible sense of place, environment and experience. Authors also discuss notions of atmosphere and interiority, and consider the potential to extend beyond the bounded internality of architectural spaces and examine interiority through ecological systems, identity and urbanism.
The book also explores ideas of home-making through various narrative, spatial, material and digital forms and the possibilities of parametric methods. By decentring existing anthropocentric understandings of place that privilege human perspectives, authors also consider other living perspectives and how design can support more-than-human places of the future.
Introduction, Mark Burry and Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia), Gini Lee and Stanislav Roudavski (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Section One: The Place of the Parametric: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives
Introduction, Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania, Australia)
1. Parameter, Place and Limit, Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania, Australia)
2. Against Parametric Reductionism in Design, Alberto Perez Gomez (McGill University, Canada)
3. Being Somewhere, Megan Baynes (Architect, Australia)
4. Digital Delusions: Fear and Loathing of the Parametric Utopia, Adrian Carter (Bond University, Australia)
5. Place as the Core of the Sacred, Elizabeth Farrelly (Writer and Critic, Australia)
6. High-computation Design in the Return to Place, Randall Lindstrom (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Section Two: Place and Creativity: Facing the Blank Sheet
Introduction, Mark Burry (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
7. Facing the Blank Sheet, Mark Burry (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
8. Empathetic Understanding, Nicholas Ray (Architect, UK)
9. Facing the Blank Sheet, Imogen Lesser Woods (Lecturer, UK)
10. Confronting the Blank Sheet and Making a Place, Neil Spiller (University College London, UK)
11. Diffusive Forms: Against Plato, Phillip Beesley (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Section Three: Place and Interiority: Atmosphere, Feeling and Spatial Presence
Introduction, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
12. Storied Atmospheres: Place in Writing and Building, Mark Taylor (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
13. Perfect Spaces – Imperfect Forms, Sally Stone (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
14. Mapping Interiority in the Public Realm, Paramita Atmodiwirjo and Yandi Andri Yatmo (University of Indonesia)
15. Atmospherics of Connection: Place-making through Story-telling Across Time, Emily Potter (Deakin University, Australia)
Section Four: Homeplace: On the Nature of Ephemeral Traces
Introduction, Gini Lee (University of Melbourne, Australia) including an interview with Aunty Enice Marsh (Adnyamathanha Elder, Australia) and review of Ross Gibson Story-drivers
16. Three Travels in Homeplace, Gini Lee (University of Melbourne, Australia)
17. An-archive and the Performative Making of Parametric Homeplaces, Stephen Loo (University of New South Wales, Australia)
18. My Dorm, Ed Hollis (University of Edinburgh, UK)
19. Shift(in)g Parameters: A Folding In, Suzie Attiwill (RMIT University, Australia)
Section Five: More-than-human Place: Design and Management of Future Environments
Introduction, Stanislav Roudavski (University of Melbourne, Australia)
10. Co-Design with Nonhuman Lifeforms, Stanislav Roudavski (University of Melbourne, Australia)
21. Reciprocity in Co-created Places: A Closer Look at Human Contributions to Nature, Amy Hahs (University of Melbourne, Australia)
22. The Nature of (Wild) Places, Wendy Steele (RMIT University, Australia)
23. Design as Epistemology, Freya Mathews (LaTrobe University, Australia)
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