This pedagogical research focuses on how parametric design technique, methodology, and logics of thinking affect the way students learn to design a more environmental-friendly architecture based on its characteristics in the process of design teaching and learning. Through observations on generative forms and patterns in nature, students learn to understand the relations between geometry and performance, and to redefine, reflect and transform natural patterns into various “high-performance”, “high-responsive” geometrical entities in architecture. With hands-on practice and formal experiments of parametric design in class, students will propose more sustainable and innovative design strategies of “performative architecture”. The learning process on the scope of research will include a series of presentation of concept, discussions, design workshops, seminars, and final exhibition and publication. The results of learning processes and activities will also be evaluated by means of observation, interviews, as well as surveys to enhance and modify future performance of such an intensive pedagogy.
