Facades and building envelopes determine visual identity, character and expression of architecture. Building facades lie at the intersections of the exterior and interior environments, forming an integral part of a building’s aesthetics as well as the building’s performance. As the external environment is changing all the time, buildings need to adapt to it in a smart way and facades play an important role here. Adaptation needs to be made with respect to environmental factors such as heat, light & wind. How these factors affect the performance of a building largely depends on the façade design & engineering. Irrespective of how the facades are designed, they are meant to serve a purpose.

India is a booming market and acceptance of change is becoming better with time & globalization. Parametric Design & Computational Design has become largely accepted now in India due to a global exposure to emerging trends and due to demonstration of built articulations by various emerging design studios in India.

Parametric design opens up vast possibilities of controlling performance based factors right from an early design stage of a façade project, yielding results that speak beyond mere aesthetics. Read article to know more. Click here.