In Eucldean geomety sich as cel, rectangle and triangle are equivalent in topology, 28 ean be delormed into another. They are homeararph, Final i becomes clear that by moving the translormation based herarehy suagested by Felix Klan, one gains « more and more ted geomet space, The outed geometic understanding is oferta importance inthe developmental press of mst system though differentiation and proliferation. Shifting the focus om amere mete ‘eneepton ofthe geomet lationship that define the aystems morphckgy ad behavout “ovr an understanding thet nudes non etic and topologcal aspects. provides the bate for “conputstional morphogenesis of mater ystems that enables the unong of dferention wich evan coherent wth materaisation and fabrication gis. However, as most tree mensional, Inciting spplcatons oe fm based on the defntion of geomety tough fixed coordinates, "Gtematve modeling techniques bosed on geometre/topelogeal relationships end non-metrc features feed tobe orployed. wth associative geometry and parametric medling proving one road of poriir ntorst, Inaparametrc aperosch to digtal design a med! fe defined a6 a set of geonetric relationships ‘eressccatons that ae apple tzoush parametric expressions and constraints, To understand the [areenta ference between an expt geometric model ard a parame mode, magine a dita Sawing of two cle with ne comactng thar centre pots, an exp geomet mod! ny ange inthe positon of either crc wl requ the deletion and redrawing of the connecting ln. Ina parametric mod relationship betweon the cores and he ine canbe estabished so that he Ine wi flow any andation of ether cco, Othe relatonehipe can als be preseed, for example batven he lngth ofthe ine and the rads of one of the ces. Thi ascciation can then be von hematican ‘Scondtinal statement, such as one preventing the two es from interacting, Al predefined r oups ‘rome elatonstips appl trough parametric expressions sc constraints remain consistent 3s “0.08 the models monipulted cand Most ten the isto of parametric model nthe ld of dig arcitectural design elects lean tho fac that much ofthe architectural softwar in use today was oral developed forthe funder Seonatca naval. automobile and product design industries. ue oan herd emphasis on ne geomety Jf Mertaing goometrc concl and werkow effeency, the parametric models used in these programs length of fe enbecied wth processes and contrat, which lend themssives to tha postatonaiaaton ‘varent Ifcompicated bung geometries dev fam cther design processes In architecture, deploying tothe Barometric contol is prmarly goared towards processes of ratonaliing cmilex geometnes, the cognition Spl case bong the doubly curved facades ratienaiaed asa parameticay defined system, which rarchy in then be relatively qucky adapted to nevtable changes inthe vera scheme. The geometric data othe ‘van to manufacture and constructon i contained with this paramere model nd is therefore ythe typical If fonessyrecaclatod and retoved faded, the sil for achieving the geometric camplenty esos found in many recent ‘erie’ binge have long existed but are ony now, trough the process of wth artic postatondisaton, becoming affordable, However, the context of the ME approach Tobe the lnroducton of parametric design may have more profound repercussions. No sid to the tobe se of computer aided manufacturing s @ generative and integral cver inthe design tthe same. I Pocess,assocative modeling can provide a ical comerstone in the development of an nits ascends ‘exon based on meter systems rater than being 2 merely facitatve tool the ‘The underying loge of parsmetic design canbe istrumentaed here aan alternative design cif they ‘ahd, one in which the geometric igour of parametric medeling con be deployed frat to inegrae add new ‘onuecturing constraints, asserbly ages and material characters n the defnten of spe entiey Emponents, nd then to prolferate the components nto larger systems and ascomble, TheAprar orp deme ena oh a (Sires te Pay epg ‘Shipsine Mehra Saes enter ne 9 ed wah er robbs ston oa Aa rg wth Ste ans Fe ec Ns pproech employs the exploration of prametc variables to understand the behawour of such 2 ‘system and then uses this understanding to srategise the system response to envrcnmenta condtons and exema forces. How can one magne such a process of integration, and whot ae the crical lus in ths fe of resarc? The am sto understand processes that und morphological comply ond performative capocty from smple constituents without dferentting Between formation ad ‘materalsation and this is where concepts from developmental biology can pay avole. One that is of partcular terest here, and whch canbe ntrunentaigedin the rain of parametic design, is tho horenty materal formative process of cali diferentation and preferaton, Celso ferentiation, the proces by which calle epecisiee norte to perfor spectc roles, operates on the prncple of pluripotency the capac for morphological change in cells whose genetic materi ‘and underhing relotonshps remain wth very few excoptions the same (plurpotet cols arya ‘number from a few as two in bactora to 20 or 30 ellis to 260 for such Mohly complex ys ‘2s humen beings) This srking concept suggests an application to parametric design nthe \dentiicaton ofthe constants of matesston asthe potntal for erentoion na parame defined component. The understanding of such plurpotent component woud, However. be very Pes ral ppt 0 pape campers ne a ip pene ferent om thet of a repetitive module which factates the cretion of predetermined overall Eampostion or construction The basicimpleation of such an understanding can be explained using the example of one of the most bsic posse components: sip of paper Holding such a snp between lft and ight fad, algang the short edges so thatthe pape ore a loep, hen rotating one end around the axe neg edges unt the two short edges are agan signed. yl 9 parce stip morphology. Inthe werd, vth tis imple manpulaton - a displacement ard rotation ~ of one sp end, Bosse to form nd the spectcaly related bent and twisted shape Thi the configuration toss fom the geometry and intra reestance of the matral system (he stp of pape) arbi withthe appltion of extemal forces he dplacemet/rataton ndveed bythe Fgers the manipulative proces, ard gravy). From experience we know tat fone takes a oul of Ser sts an performs the sme manipulation, they behave asia wey: they day common [emer testes (eamely, wo point of curvature change alg each edge) end topological (tat, they are sists of paper. Nevertheless there are obvious tata aching }Comnen characteris in the speciation of the erp. the proportion oflength to wth of ‘288 othe rato ofthis proportion to tukness exceeds acetan eege, one wil ether be unable {Spero the manpulstion or the stp wil nk or rp. Ri lao cous that uch nits ext fone to sips wih different slastc properties, With these basic cbservatons itis posable to