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Intelligent Building Facades: Beyond Climatic Adaptivity
This paper is based on a comparative analysis of some twenty-six intelligent building facades and sixteen large media-facades from a social-psychology perspective. Our thesis is that at the centre of the development of automated façade lies the industrial automation attitude that renders the eventual product socially less engaging and machinic. We illustrate examples of interactive media-façades to demonstrate how architects and interaction designers have used similar technology to turn building surfaces into socially engaging architectural elements. We seek opportunities to extend performative aspects of otherwise function driven double-skin façades for public expression, informal social engagement and context embodiment. Through this paper we intend to bring forth emergent concerns to designing building membrane where technology and performance should be addressed through a broader cultural position, establishing a continual dialogue between the surface, function and its larger human context.
Intelligent Building Facades: Beyond Climatic Adaptivity
This paper is based on a comparative analysis of some twenty-six intelligent building facades and sixteen large media-facades from a social-psychology perspective. Our thesis is that at the centre of the development of automated façade lies the industrial automation attitude that renders the eventual product socially less engaging and machinic. We illustrate examples of interactive media-façades to demonstrate how architects and interaction designers have used similar technology to turn building surfaces into socially engaging architectural elements. We seek opportunities to extend performative aspects of otherwise function driven double-skin façades for public expression, informal social engagement and context embodiment. Through this paper we intend to bring forth emergent concerns to designing building membrane where technology and performance should be addressed through a broader cultural position, establishing a continual dialogue between the surface, function and its larger human context.
Intelligent Building Facades: Beyond Climatic Adaptivity
Anshuman, Sachin (author) / Kumar, Bimal (author)
International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering 2005 ; 2005 ; Cancun, Mexico
2005-06-24
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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