What is parametric architecture?

It is a tool that allows you to work with flexibility to optimize construction processes. We can describe it as the construction of an algorithm with a potentially infinite number of variables. Architectural composition, sustainability, materials, exposure, economic limits, energy demands… all these information are related to each other and serve to generate a series of design possibilities.

What's the benefit?

It is an excellent way to integrate all the stakeholders involved in the process: real estate developers, urban planners, end users. Furthermore, the use of AI allows you to easily manage complex parts of the project: when a parameter is changed or new information is entered, it is immediately integrated into the project and rationally influences all the other parts as well.

A huge amount of problem solving and criticality work can be done by an algorithm. Briefly we can say that good architecture is the answer to a complex question, in which many spatial and human factors converge. It is useful to think parametrically for this reason, and architects already do. Getting help from a computer is a logical evolution.

Why is parametric architecture useful for designing biophilic buildings?

There are at least 15 parameters that define an architecture with a low ecological impact and, above all, with a high content of human well-being. To these must be added the classic variables. It is obvious that using an algorithm that takes everything into account and is able to give architectural solutions that respond with precision and effectiveness to every question of the project, guarantees (in the true sense of the word) a truly respectful of the man and the environment, without ambiguity or too many compromises.

What is Mitosis?

Mitosis is the sequel to a pilot project completed by GG-loop in 2019: Freebooter, a pair of prefabricated apartments in CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) wrapped in a parametric facade in wood. The building is based on the nature / architecture relationship to improve the quality of life of the people who use it.

The idea of ​​making this first self-efficient project scalable led to the creation of Mitosis. The name represents the modularity and the long-term adaptation of the system, it is a metaphor for a flexible organism in which each residential unit coexists in symbiosis with all the others and with the 'environment.

Mitosis generates urban clusters using prefabricated wood and bio-based modules, selects materials that capture carbon and using resources more efficiently, produces more energy than it consumes and uses resources in a circular way. Furthermore Mitosis integrates plant and animal life into all buildings, allowing the inhabitants to coexist harmoniously with biodiversity.

Tutto questo sarebbe davvero molto complesso e lungo da progettare senza l’ausilio dell’intelligenza artificiale. Che rende anche più semplici eventuali co-evoluzioni dei cluster e la loro comunicazione.