The living, breathing, thinking, responsive buildings of the future / Rodolphe El-Khoury, Christos Marcopoulos, Carol Moukheiber with contributions by Drew Adams [and others].

By:

El-Khoury, Rodolphe

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2012Description: 291 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0500290598
9780500290590

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

724.7 23

LOC classification:

NA2543.T43 E454 2012

Contents:

artificial nature -- filtration block -- mocape -- photosynthetic facade -- oxygen curtain -- synthetic landscapes -- out-house -- rgb garden -- immersive spaces -- sky house -- all seeing house -- tunable sound cloud -- breeze-thru wall -- play on the fly -- invisible house -- farnsworth wall -- farnsworth curtain -- dual slate room -- xi'an scent garden -- monuments + bits -- blink -- tunnel of light -- rule -- nature 2.0 -- fog house -- kinetic componets -- variable -- fresh-air win -- healing and cooling glass -- variable geometry truss -- light-seeking brick -- wallbot -- variable cladding -- swarm tile -- pneumatic envelope -- poly-glazed curtain wall -- iviron microclimate -- mediating weathers -- sunlight house -- surface as interface -- im blanky -- light-emiting concrete -- ambient wallpaper -- digital window -- window 2.0 -- mycity -- aleph to -- linking shade -- stratford square -- superblock -- invisible room -- individuated response -- hu-mannequins -- spot shade -- auratic chamber -- scentisizer -- chameleon lounge.

Summary: One of the more exciting realities of 21st-century life is that objects are now able with the help of embedded technology to sense, think, act and communicate. Very soon, every building, city and landscape component will be equipped with communicative and computational capacities: we shall be surrounded by sentient architecture. This book documents the role of architecture in shaping this new reality in multiple research trajectories launched and guided by the authors at The University of Toronto, MIT, Harvard Graduate School of Design and the University of Hong Kong. The projects establish an interdisciplinary platform involving artists, designers, scientists and engineers spanning different institutions and continents in a technological approach to spatial problems that is attuned to the dynamics of living systems.

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Machine generated contents note: artificial nature -- filtration block -- mocape -- photosynthetic facade -- oxygen curtain -- synthetic landscapes -- out-house -- rgb garden -- immersive spaces -- sky house -- all seeing house -- tunable sound cloud -- breeze-thru wall -- play on the fly -- invisible house -- farnsworth wall -- farnsworth curtain -- dual slate room -- xi'an scent garden -- monuments + bits -- blink -- tunnel of light -- rule -- nature 2.0 -- fog house -- kinetic componets -- variable -- fresh-air win -- healing and cooling glass -- variable geometry truss -- light-seeking brick -- wallbot -- variable cladding -- swarm tile -- pneumatic envelope -- poly-glazed curtain wall -- iviron microclimate -- mediating weathers -- sunlight house -- surface as interface -- im blanky -- light-emiting concrete -- ambient wallpaper -- digital window -- window 2.0 -- mycity -- aleph to -- linking shade -- stratford square -- superblock -- invisible room -- individuated response -- hu-mannequins -- spot shade -- auratic chamber -- scentisizer -- chameleon lounge.

One of the more exciting realities of 21st-century life is that objects are now able with the help of embedded technology to sense, think, act and communicate. Very soon, every building, city and landscape component will be equipped with communicative and computational capacities: we shall be surrounded by sentient architecture. This book documents the role of architecture in shaping this new reality in multiple research trajectories launched and guided by the authors at The University of Toronto, MIT, Harvard Graduate School of Design and the University of Hong Kong. The projects establish an interdisciplinary platform involving artists, designers, scientists and engineers spanning different institutions and continents in a technological approach to spatial problems that is attuned to the dynamics of living systems.

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