Surface change: Information, matter and environment

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Abstract

Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in exploring the capacity of built spaces to respond dynamically and adapt to changes in the external and internal environments. Such explorations are technologically and socially motivated, in response to recent technological and cultural developments. Advances in embedded computation, material design, and kinetics on the technological side, and increasing concerns about sustainability, social and urban changes on the cultural side, provide a background for responsive/interactive architectural solutions that have started to emerge.This paper presents an ongoing design research project driven by an interest in adaptive systems in nature and a desire to explore the capacity of built spaces to respond dynamically. The paper underlines architecture's inseparable link to technology and projects a vision of architecture that, through its capacity to change and adapt, becomes an integrated, responsive, adaptive and productive participant within larger ecologies.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationOpen Systems - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2013
Pages935-944
Number of pages10
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event18th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia: Open Systems, CAADRIA 2013 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: May 15 2013May 18 2013

Publication series

NameOpen Systems - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2013

Other

Other18th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia: Open Systems, CAADRIA 2013
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period5/15/135/18/13

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Software

Keywords

  • Dynamic environments
  • Embedded systems
  • Kinetic material systems
  • Mechatronics
  • Responsive architecture
  • Shape memory alloy

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