Hyperbodies : towards an e-motive architecture / Kaas Oosterhuis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oosterhuis, Kas.

Series:

IT revolution in architecture

Standardized Title:

Hypercorpi. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Virtual reality in architecture.

Architecture--Computer-aided design.

Architecture.

Architectural design--Computer simulation.

Architectural design.

Computer-aided design.

Physical Description:

95 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basel ; Boston ; Berlin : Birkhäuser, 2003.

Summary:

Kas Oosterhuis repositions the architect in society today as a well-trained hyperconscious idiot savant. Audacious intuition must be trained to decide in split seconds, like the Formula I driver. Today's architect is an information architect, able to act intuitively and to process rationally at the same time. He naturally investigates and practises architecture as a realtime transaction space, buildings are seen as processes running in real time. Building components communicate with other building components. All are members of the swarm, members of the hive. Swarm architecture implies that all building elements operate as intelligent agents, data-carriers and data-processing devices. Swarm architecture feeds on data generated by social transactions in the new transformation economy. In the process of collaborative design and engineering the participants work in the communication flow of the swarm. The collaborative work is based on parametric, generic and genetic design principles, on scripts and formulas with a multitude of variables. The modern informed architect is the designer of intelligent vehicles, executing a game of life and death. Architecture becomes the art of building prototypes for fluid dynamic structures and environments running in real time. Architecture no longer has the hidden agenda to resist external and internal forces. Buildings are pro-active hyperbodies displaying real time behaviour. Buildings are familiar but unpredictable like the weather. Architecture goes wild and e-motive.

Contents:

1. The Information Architect in Society Today 5

2. The Innovative Architect 5

3. The Architect's New Data-driven Practice 7

4. The New Responsibilities of the Architect 10

5. The Laboratory 14

6. Architectural Education Revisited 15

7. Building Bodies 17

8. Data Carriers 22

9. Information Theory 23

10. Input [greater than sign] output Devices 27

11. Information Flow 31

12. Direct Access to the Project Data 32

13. Distributed Being 36

14. Artificial Intuition 38

15. Split Second 39

16. PC Computation Power 42

17. Distributed Project Database 46

18. Data-driven Process 47

19. Communication 49

20. Senders & Receivers 51

21. Sensors and Actuators 55

22. The Swarm 58

23. Multi-player Interface 62

24. Do not Kill the Process 63

25. Connected Hyperbodies 65

26. Instrumental Hyperbodies 67

27. Transaction Spaces 69

28. E-motive Bandwidth 70

29. The Nature of the Game 74

30. The Rules of the Game 75

31. The Scale-free Networks of Buildings 76

32. Bi-directional Connectors 78

33. The Scale-free Networks of the Design Process 80

34. Build Prototypes 82

35. Direct Democracy 90

36. Architecture in the Information Economy 83.

Notes:

"Original edition: Hypercorpi. Verso un'architettura e-motiva (Univerdale di Architettura 144)"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

3764367369

3764369698

OCLC:

51992134