Building Dynamics: Exploring Architecture of Change by Exploring Architecture of Change

Author:Exploring Architecture of Change
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317650782
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2015-06-11T16:00:00+00:00

9.5a and b Prairie House, a small residence that uses active responsive systems to improve its performance.

Opportunity Knocks: Buildings are Giant Robots

As a young architect who has developed a practice around a robotic future, it is clear that the profession of architecture is ripe for change. We are at a point in history where deep questions about our collective future are being asked – and answered – with, or without, our input. Some architects have spoken about this future and positioned the idea of robotics on the sidelines of what has become conventional digital practice. These practitioners wrap robotics within the guise of CNC machines and, worse still, the Hollywood prop factory.25 They see robotics as a means to legitimize custom fabrication and justify the continuance of static architectural form. They miss seeing the real opportunity of robotic systems as being integral to a changing architecture.

Buildings are giant robots that embody analytical and persistent computational processes in built assemblies that can change shape, color, configuration, and character. These buildings tie their responses to changing user actions and environmental conditions. Furthermore, they alter the nature of design, and its relationship to industry, by enabling architects to produce highly contextualized assemblies from very limited numbers of standardized parts. These new architectures achieve their highly customized or contextual configurations via their ability to respond to the world in real time.

Finally, robotic systems enable a fundamental shift to take place within architecture. This shift has its own logic, a logic that extends persistent or parametric design into the material world via behavioral systems that provide architects with the ability to develop sustained and newly poetic relationships between buildings, people, and nature. These are the opportunities of responsive and robotic systems in architecture.

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