Programmatic Formation explores design as a responsive process.The study we present engages the complexity of the surroundings using parametric and generative design methods. It illustrates that responsiveness of designs can be achieved beyond geometric explorations.The parametric models can combine and respond simultaneously to design and its programmatic factors, such as performance-sensitive design-decisions, and constraints.We demonstrate this through a series of case studies for a housing tower.The studies explore the extent to which non-spatial parameters can be incorporated into spatial parametric dependencies in design.The results apply digital design and modeling, common to the curriculum of architecture schools, to the practical realm of building design and city planning.While practitioners are often slow to include contemporary design and planning methods into their daily work, the research illustrates how the incorporation of skills and knowledge acquired as part of university education can be effectively incorporated into everyday design and planning.

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