6. INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CONTEMPORARY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
A NEW DESIGN APPROACH: PARAMETRIC DESIGN
The introduction of digital technology into our lives has led to many changes in lifestyle. This transformation has impacted design education and practice, continuing to evolve alongside these changes. There are various ways to design a product. According to Oxman (2017), products that were once created through handcrafting calculations and drawings are now produced by considering multiple stages together, thanks to the ease of calculating variable parameters in the context of computer-aided design. One of the new explorations in the design process is parametric design, which facilitates the formation of various models ranging from digital drawing to 3D modeling and computational design, resulting in changes in design tools (Şekerci and Yıldız, 2020). Parametric design, although not widely known in earlier times, has become a prominent topic in recent years, especially in design-oriented professional disciplines. With advancements in technology, designs created using virtual codes that appear unique and unconventional have started to be referred to as parametric design. Due to factors such as flexibility, efficiency, and variability, parametric design has become an important type of design. All these factors have contributed to making design better, faster, and more effective. The importance of parametric design in landscape architecture lies in its consideration of many factors such as flexibility, variability, aesthetics, visual appeal, and sustainability. These aspects underscore the significance of parametric design in landscape architecture, enabling projects to become more effective, attractive, and extraordinary while providing more sustainable solutions. According to Kaya (2011), parametric design does not view landscape architecture merely as a product produced from form, function, or environment, but rather as a network of relationships among various elements of a more complex system. In this sense, the form, function, and environmental parameters are related to the structuring parameters of the field. The number and importance of parametric designs in landscape architecture are increasing day by day.
