PART 1 | Case Study and Parametric Modeling Practice Case Study: The Water Cube In the context of ARCH 655 - Parametric Modeling in Design, the selected case study is the façade of the National Swimming Center (also called Water Cube) in China, designed by CSCEC + PTW + CCDI and ARUP. https://www.arup.com/en-us/projects/national-aquatics-center-water-cube/ https://www.westchinatour.com/beijing/attraction/water-cube.html The National Aquatics Center, also known as the 'Water Cube', is one of the most dramatic and exciting sporting venues constructed for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Arup’s designers and structural engineers came up with a design for the walls inspired by the natural formation of soap bubbles, a unique geometry that was both highly repetitive and buildable, yet which appears pleasingly random and organic. With Ethyl tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) used for the cladding, Arup designed the building to be sustainable, well-lit and seismically resistant (ARUP...