The goal is to create architectural solutions that can demonstrate responsive and intelligently active behaviors with respect to changing individual, social and environmental needs. Kinetic function is used as a technological design strategy for building types that are efficient in form, lightweight, and inherently flexible with respect to various contexts and a diversity of purposes. Intelligent kinetic systems arise from the isomorphic convergence of three key elements: structural engineering, embedded computation and adaptable architecture. Such systems shall serve as a practical means for inventing entirely new ways of developing spaces, and the designing and building environments that address dynamic, flexible and constantly changing needs.
"If
architects designed a building like a body, it would have a system of bones
and muscles and tendons and a brain that knows how to respond. If a building
could change its posture, tighten its muscles and brace itself against the
wind, its structural mass could literally be cut in half."
-
Guy Nordenson
If
a building could mediate our needs and the environment outside:
Its demand on physical resources could be slashed
If it could transform to facilitate multi-uses:
Its function would be optimized
If a building could adapt to our desires:
It would shape our experience
-
mafox
