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oscarrieraojeda · 4 years

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Make Alive Prototypes for Responsive Architectures

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Make Alive Prototypes for Responsive Architectures

Edited by Rodolphe el Khoury / Christos Marcopoulos and Carol Moukheiber

The migration of computing from dedicated appliances to physical environments, thanks to increasingly proliferating microchips and ever-expanding information networks directly implicates and empowers architecture as a transformative agent and medium. The fact that objects can now sense, think, act, and communicate with the help of embedded technology is opening up the potential for an architecture that is more closely aligned with the networked dynamics of living systems – a sentient architecture.

The technological enhancement of physical matter charts a movement away from a mechanical paradigm towards a biological model. The shift manifests itself on several levels, from the micro scale in the form of new composite or “smart” materials capable of registering and responding to external stimuli, to larger network formations between people, objects, spaces, and landscapes. Radical artifice here serves to imitate nature, enmeshing built environments in a complex web of interactions whose emergent properties approximate the resiliency of natural ecologies.

It is precisely this fine attunement to life that has made these emerging technologies pertinent in dealing with a wide range of issues from the therapeutic benefits to the body, to the mediation of global and climatic energy systems. The projects featured in this book demonstrate in working prototypes architectural applications of synthetic sentience in the broad research area of ambient intelligence, focusing on: Immersive Spaces, Hybrid Living Systems, Responsive Cladding, Surface as Interface, Augmented Building Technologies, and Individuated Experience. Initial informal efforts have evolved with this team into a focused and funded university-based research.

The projects establish a collaborative platform involving designers, scientists, and engineers and a new family of spatial problems where, architecture is re-charged.

Make Alive Prototypes for Responsive Architectures

Book Size: 7.25 x 9.25 in / 184,15 x 234,9 mm Format: Portrait Pages: 296 Language: English Photographs: 300 Illustrations: 200 Edition: Softcover with 3/4 flaps in slipcase (978-988-16194-6-4)

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zeanmacfarlane · 7 years

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waidesignlab-blog · 6 years

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Idealism vs Reality vs Business

Sometimes, what we have planned for the project wont turn out to be what we expected, as for this case, it didn’t because of many elements happened during the very short process,therefore we prefer our original version of the design rather than the finished product. One that we learned from this project is that not everyone shares the same vision as yours, then…

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aplusrdesign · 6 years

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👏🏼 to Christopher Hawthorne—and, really, to the #CityofAngeles—with this afternoon’s announcement that Christopher is leaving his post as #architecturecritic of @latimes for the newly created chief design officer for the city. With homelessness a major crisis here, infrastructure an even greater task, and the 2028 #Olympics just a blink away, he certainly has his work cut out for him. But we side with this California native (by way of Berkeley) when he says: “what links quintessential Los Angeles design is a marriage of optimism to pragmatism, of experimentation to economy.” #lifebydesign #designczar #LosAngelesdesign #DTLA #architecture #LAdesign

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oscarrieraojeda · 4 years

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Figures Essays on Contemporary Architecture

Hardcover in slipcase

The essays consider the contemporary architectural scene from a variety of perspectives in theory and practice. They include seminal pieces that framed important debates in the eld, such as the introduction to the exhibition catalogue Monolithic Architecture, as well as observations on buildings and practices from around the world, from Santiago, to Beirut and Beijing. Together, the polemical provocations and interpretive insights construct a critical panorama of a global architectural landscape in rapid transformation since the 1990s.