Interactive architecture : adaptive world / Michael Fox, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fox, Michael, 1967 August 22- editor.

Series:

Architecture briefs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and technology.

Intelligent buildings.

Architecture--Technological innovations.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Architecture has an inherent need to relate to human beings and to nature, the cocreators that have influenced, occupied, traveled through, and appreciated its multitudes of forms. Recent technological developments in biology, computation, cybernetics, engineering, industrial design, material fabrication, and robotics provided the impetus that allowed it to evolve beyond static functionality and become an active participant with the capacity to perceive, react to, and connect with us and with the natural world. Since the process-based guide by Michael Fox and Miles Kemp introduced interactive architecture in 2009, its prototypical potential has been tapped, and is manifest in the eighteen inventive projects featured in this follow-up Architecture Brief. Interactive Architecture: Adaptive World illustrates how the infrastructure within and around which we build our daily lives can process information, make observations, and utilize tools in order to translate natural systems and create seamlessly integrated environments. The structures within run the gamut from data-driven light installations, responsive sculptures, and performative materials to smart highways, dynamic spaces, kinetic facades, and adaptive buildings. In reference to their synergetic nature, they are chaptered according to their prevailing intents to "Exhilarate," "Communicate," "Mediate," "Evolve," and "Catalyze." Contextualized by Fox, expounded upon by the designers/architects, and illuminated by photographs, diagrams, and renderings, Interactive Architecture: Adaptive World bridges the field's antecedent visionaries, present innovations, and future possibilities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : catalyst design in a connected world

Exhilarate. May/September / Urbana

Technorama facade / Ned Kahn

Windswept / Charles Sowers

Reef / Rob Ley, Rob Ley Studio and Joshua G. Stein, Radical Craft

Communicate. Lightswarm / Future Cities Lab

Plinthos / MAB Architecture

BALLS! / Ruairi Glynn and Alma-nac

MegaFaces / Asif Khan Ltd.

Mediate. Al Bahar Towers / Abdulmajid Karanouh, Aedas Architects

KfW Westarkade Tower / Sauerbruch Hutton

Eco-29 / FoxLin and Brahma Architects

Smart Highway / Studio Roosegaarde and Heijmans Infrastructure

Evolve. HygroScope + HygroSkin / Achim Menges, with Steffen Reichert and Oliver David Kreig

Bloom / DOSU

ShapeShift / Manuel Kretzer

Catalyze. Epiphyte Chamber / Philip Beeseley

Conventions of control / Michael Fox and Allyn Polancic

Alloplastic architecture / Behnaz Farahi Bouzanjani.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-173).

ISBN:

9781616894061

1616894067

OCLC:

917344569