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Make Alive (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Make Alive (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The migration of computing from dedicated appliances to physical
environments, thanks to increasingly proliferating microchips and
ever-expanding information networks directly implicates and
empowers architecture as a transformative agent and medium. The
fact that objects can now sense, think, act, and communicate with
the help of embedded technology is opening up the potential for an
architecture that is more closely aligned with the networked
dynamics of living systems - a sentient architecture. The
technological enhancement of physical matter charts a movement away
from a mechanical paradigm towards a biological model. The shift
manifests itself on several levels, from the micro scale in the
form of new composite or "smart" materials capable of registering
and responding to external stimuli, to larger network formations
between people, objects, spaces, and landscapes. Radical artifice
here serves to imitate nature, enmeshing built environments in a
complex web of interactions whose emergent properties approximate
the resiliency of natural ecologies. * It is precisely this fine
attunement to life that has made these emerging technologies
pertinent in dealing with a wide range of issues from the
therapeutic benefits to the body, to the mediation of global and
climatic energy systems. The projects featured in this book
demonstrate in working prototypes architectural applications of
synthetic sentience in the broad research area of ambient
intelligence, focusing on: Immersive Spaces, Hybrid Living Systems,
Responsive Cladding, Surface as Interface, Augmented Building
Technologies, and Individuated Experience. Initial informal efforts
have evolved with this team into a focused and funded
university-based research. The projects establish a collaborative
platform involving designers, scientists, and engineers and a new
family of spatial problems where, architecture is re-charged.
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