2024-11-16T04:37:43-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/115207766/archinect-s-lexicon-parametric-slug Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-12-04T19:33:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/dn/dnibfokztvtp9y7o.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Here at Archinect, we receive countless submissions of people's work, hoping to be published. Within recent memory (exactly when it began is uncertain), a particular type of work started popping up frequently.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/xz/xzpxsy7zl9fe08u4.jpg"><br><a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/82684993/student-works-saltworks-from-washington-university-in-st-louis" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><em>"Saltworks" from Washington University in St. Louis.</em></a></p><p>The pieces were recognizable as parametrically-designed pavilions, and often (but not exclusively) were student-built, part of a studio program. Photos show these pieces installed on campus quads, somewhere in a public park, or elsewhere with a open, semi-public function &ndash; a structure that gives people an opportunity to gather and linger, but often without any more specific programming. More often than not, these projects look like giant armored slugs.</p><p><img alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/wt/wtpumv380m2pssap.jpg"><br><em><a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/75126636/student-works-singapore-university-of-technology-and-design-library-pavilion" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Singapore University of Technology and Design Library Pavilion</a></em></p><p>So it is respectfully and in the tradition of Venturi and Scott Brown's "duck vs. shed", that Archinect submits the "parametric slug" to <em>Archinect's Lexicon</em>. A "slug" is a typology defined by a simple tubular form, str...</p>