Journal

What I learned

• Definition: parametric design defines form through parameters and algorithms — dynamic generation with precise control over complex geometry.
• In architecture: it balances aesthetics with energy performance, responding to sun, wind and load in real time.
• In art: it continues the Constructivist line — points, lines and planes as visual parameters; creation shifts from "subjective randomness" to "quantifiable, iterative precision".
• AI art joins the same logic: latent parameters, prompt variables, iterative generation — a digital descendant of the same idea.

My critique

• Unguarded optimisation: pure parameter-hunting ignores the needs that cannot be quantified.
• Culture without context: parametric motifs are copied globally — the homogenisation crisis of "one size fits all".
• Hand vs. algorithm: the visible trace of the hand carries meaning that the screen cannot replace.

The seed of my position

• The source of form is not the parameter but life — the woven chair, the smoke, the sound of a mushroom forest.
• Every project in this portfolio tests the same claim: technology is a servant, caress is the client.

Context

• Pressure: the busiest single-runway airport in the US — designed for 2.5 million annual passengers, stretched to 12 million by 2020.
• Role of design: Gensler's $3.8 billion redevelopment positions the terminal as a "cultural front door" reflecting San Diego's coastal beauty and laid-back lifestyle.
• Phasing: Phase One (September 2025) adds 19 gates and 13 security lanes with a seamless "curb-to-gate" flow; Phase Two (2028) grows the terminal to 30 gates.

Form & material

• The wave: an 800-foot wavy roof echoes the Pacific tides — structure and identity in one gesture.
• Modular precision: steel modules fabricated to ±3 mm tolerance cut on-site time by 25%; the farthest gate is a 10-minute walk.
• "Luminous Wave" facade: 30% recycled aluminium panels reduce cooling load by 18% while washing the hall with diffused light.

Sustainability

• Low-carbon concrete cuts embodied carbon by 20%.
• Photovoltaic roof supplies 15% of the terminal's electricity.
• Local FSC-certified pine ties the interior back to California's forests.

What I take away

• Infrastructure can carry identity, soothe users and perform sustainably — at any scale.
• Great systems hide: the traveller feels calm waves, not engineering.
• The same intention I apply to a chair or a village — care made spatial — works at the scale of a terminal too.