EXPRESSIVE DESIGNS THROUGH PARAMETRICS

Miguel Guerrero

Miwa Studio

March 24, 2021

I would like to tell you about the expressivity that parametrics offer to designers. I’m really catched by this technique, like something that takes you far away at the same time that is very challenging. I will use as example a ceiling design I made four years ago with @ramirovillegas. Maybe the first design that made me think on a personal brand on product design. I call it Wave Ceiling, its shape is like a surface of water captured on the moment that two stones drop into the water.

Complexity

Imagine a grid of thousands of points, then imagine a stone. Let’s choose one point and calculate its distance X to the stone, using a mathematical ecuation (arcsinX) we obtain a newer position on its height. Then repeat this operation for every single point on the grid. Then we make a surface out of the resulting points. These are the physics when a stone drops into the water, and these physics are replicable with parametrics and it’s wonderful.

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We can manage with big precision many aspects like how big we want the drops to be, the waves frequency, dimensions and so many things.

Multitude

Now let’s slice the surface and create ribs. We obtain around 50 ribs.

The ribs are very big, so we need to subdivide them into 10 pieces. So now we are talking about managing 500 different pieces.

 Order

Every piece is numbered and part of a sequence. Installation is quite easy following the order, one by one until

we reach the complete sequence!

The expressive result