ALIVE: Advancements in adaptive architecture

Published by Birkhäuser 2014

ALIVE

Advancements in adaptive architecture

Edited by: Manuel Kretzer and Ludger Hovestadt

Volume 8 in the series Applied Virtuality Book Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783990436684

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About this book

Chances of living architecture

In times where the very concept of ‘nature’ is questioned not only in its philosophical dimension, but in the core of its biological materiality, we need to reconsider the interrelations between architecture and nature. This not only applies to strategies on environmental responsibility but equally on anticipatory human behavior and cultural or demographic variety.

To address these challenges this book proposes to embrace the unknown and cultivate the architectural discipline towards an integrated and cross-disciplinary practice. It unravels compelling innovative and forward-thinking design narratives by leading international practitioners and researchers who investigate novel associations between architecture, nature and humanity for a future, alive architecture. Structured around the three closely cross-linked core themes “bioinspiration”, “materiability”, and “intelligence” the book engages with the starting point of an emerging new design field, where the symbiosis of physics, biology, computing and design promises the redefinition of what we call architecture today.

A collection of valuable contributions by renown researchers
Interdisciplinary research and its potential for architecture in the future
Themes: innovative material development, bionspiration, sustainability, interaction and intelligence

Author / Editor information

Manuel Kretzer, ETH Zürich. Ludger Hovestadt, ETH Zürich

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Foreword Carole Collet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Preface Ludger Hovestadt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Introduction Manuel Kretzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
Bioinspiration
Quasiperiodic Near–Living Systems: Paradigms for Form–Language Philip Beesley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Ecology beyond Nature Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
Meteorosensitive Architectures Achim Menges, Steffen Reichert and Oliver David Krieg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
In[form]ations: Digital Matter on Buildings and Cities Areti Markopoulou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Building Nature: On Sex and Ducks, Chicken and Shit, Architecture and Apples Alex Haw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Conversation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
Materiability
Domesticating a World of Printed Physics Ludger Hovestadt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Beyond Performance Manuel Kretzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Adapting Matter Martina Decker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Bioluminescence: Toward Design with Living Light Nicola Burggraf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Smart Materials: Designing a Timescape of Interconnectivity for more Resilient Practices of Inhabitation Aurélie Mossé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
The Unconventional Electronics Approach to the Internet of Things John Sarik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
Conversation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Intelligence
Caught in the Act Kas Oosterhuis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Spatial Computing in Interactive Architecture Stefan Dulman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
Polyomino: The Missing Topology Mechanic Jose Sanchez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Architecture and Audience Jason Bruges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Approaching Distributed Architectural Ecosystems Tomasz Jaskiewicz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Conversation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Outlook
Adaptive Architecture: Low–Tech, High–Tech, or Both? Branko Kolarevic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Postscript
The Quickness of Matter, doped in its Polyalphabetic Textuality: or, The Articulation of Articles, beyond Prescript and Postscript Vera Bühlmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Architects, Students, Material Science
Pages
- Main content: 220
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 60
- Coloured Illustrations: 44

eBook

Published: September 23, 2014
ISBN: 9783990436684

Hardcover

Published: September 15, 2014
ISBN: 9783990436677