MATERIAL, INFORMATION AND FORMATION IN PARAMETRIC DESIGN ExPERIMENTS IN ThE RESEARCh LAbORATORy OF ThE STuDENTS OF ThE FACuLTy OF ARChITECTuRE OF POzNAN uNIvERSITy OF TEChNOLOGy

Several experiments combining analog design with digital parametric design have been presented, where the relationship between material properties and the designed shape of an architectural element play an important role. This approach allows to create digital material formations or to structure freeform surfaces, control their tectonics, through parametric modulation. Similar research tasks were initiated in the years 2003-2004 during the classes conducted at the Architectural Associations School of Architecture in London. In Poland, for the first time, making use of that experience, a number of similar teaching experiments were carried out in 2013 under the academic supervision of Krystyna Januszkiewicz and Mateusz zwierzycki, at the newly established Research Laboratory of the students of the Faculty of Architecture of Poznan university of Technology.