Transplanting architecture. Parametric design for Kaohsiung maritime cultural and popular music center

In the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice 2008, “Parametricism” was first claimed to be a new style, and about a year later it was slightly adjusted to “a global new style”-after modernism. In fact, parametric design has been discussed, researched, taught in numbers of institutions, practiced and manifested in from students’ works to numbers of recently built constructions around the globe. But architects has been dealing with design parameters eversince the primitive hut was built. What is the difference then? This three part thesis starts with a research which focus on studying parametric design by quickly scanning from historical context to the recent digital environment. In second part, the thesis takes the on-going design competition named “Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural and Popular Music Center” in Taiwan as a brief to do the project. Finally a self- critic conlusion summarizes the work. The three parts run almost parallel instead of one after another.