A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
This chapter provides an overview of a discernibly deepening engagement with performative scripting worldwide. Buildings that physically adapt to changes in environmental circumstances are part of an emerging architecture for which real‐time‐responsive performance is seen as a major opportunity. The chapter summarises the value of performative scripting as follows: scripting a masia for all possible situations so that a new variant of retro‐architecture might have its day, a banal encoded set of features that shows how a simple manorial house design can conform to site specificity, diurnal and seasonal shifts in light and weather, geographical location and orientation. It draws from two examples: the unscripted Para‐masia, an environmentally performative archetype with a 2,000‐year‐long tradition, and Dermoid, an environmentally performing responsive enclosure actively affording maximum comfort for the least use of materials.
This chapter provides an overview of a discernibly deepening engagement with performative scripting worldwide. Buildings that physically adapt to changes in environmental circumstances are part of an emerging architecture for which real‐time‐responsive performance is seen as a major opportunity. The chapter summarises the value of performative scripting as follows: scripting a masia for all possible situations so that a new variant of retro‐architecture might have its day, a banal encoded set of features that shows how a simple manorial house design can conform to site specificity, diurnal and seasonal shifts in light and weather, geographical location and orientation. It draws from two examples: the unscripted Para‐masia, an environmentally performative archetype with a 2,000‐year‐long tradition, and Dermoid, an environmentally performing responsive enclosure actively affording maximum comfort for the least use of materials.
Performative Scripting
Burry, Mark (editor)
Scripting Cultures ; 224-245
2013-01-25
22 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
| British Library Online Contents | 2003
| Online Contents | 2003
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2003
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