The ‘Parametric Shelter’ is, similar to the Midnight Rendering, the result of the course ‘Digital Design’ from the University of Sydney.  This assignment continued on acquiring digital design skills, with the main focus on parametric design. The students were asked to design a bus stop, where the finished product has to illustrate a profound understanding of Grasshopper. Therefore, the design had to consist of at least twelve separate parameters, each changing individual elements of the structure. Additionally, a combination of these parameters had to be able to be altered simultaneously. This particular assignment forced the student to think about which elements of a design could affect the aesthetics of a design. 

The product of the assignment can be seen on this page, illustrating a small selection of the possible outcomes of the parametric design. This particular selection shows the variety of structures that can be created by the combination of parameters. These parameters include: the width, the height, the overhang, the angle of the overhang, rotation of the outer column around the z-axis, the scale of the outer columns, rotation of the middle column around the z-axis, the scale of the middle column, the number of columns, the number of beams, the number of beam segments, the rotation of the beam segments around the x-axis, the width of the beam segments, the thickness of the beam segments and the thickness of the columns. A number of these elements change the bus stop on a larger scale, creating dissimilar structures. These structures can be altered to a specific environment or urban context. Elements that could influence the outcome of this product are the built environment, orientation towards the sun, the climate and the frequency of users. The changes made to the beam segments however, only change the aesthetics of the design and are thus on a secondary level. 

The final requirement of the design brief was to create a setting in which the bus stop was to be placed. I chose to create a paradoxical situation by placing the structure in an environment in which a bus stop is made redundant.