CNN in England asks: -- Just how smart can a building be?
Bill Gates and Microsoft might be striving for a future where integrated in-home computer systems do our chores while keeping us warm and entertained, but a new breed of architects have a different vision for how, and where, we will live in the future.
They are working to create smart buildings that act as living systems, able to change shape to match the needs of the people inside and the changing weather outside
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"Forget about the idea of a guy sitting in the middle of a room with a computer telling a blind to come down," says Michael Fox, an architect who started the Kinetic Design Group at MIT and is exploring the field of responsive architecture.
Tristan d'Estree Sterk is another pioneer in developing smart buildings and a member of the Office for Robotic Architectural Media & the Bureau for Responsive Architecture in Vancouver.
Together with Robert Skelton he is developing shape-changing buildings using "actuated tensegrity" - a new system that uses rods and wires manipulated by pneumatics to form a building's exoskeleton. They are able to move in response to sensors on the outershell of the building or the conditions within it.
Next Generation?
"A fully-integrated, living system that is sensitive to the environment is the next stage." Sterk told CNN.
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New Buzz Words to Remember
Responsive architecture and "actuated tensegrity"..hhmmm...sounds like a Stafford Beer term
Intelligence Level (1) |
Adapting: |
Modifying Behaviour to Fit the Environment |
X |
Intelligence Level (2) |
Sensing: |
Bringing Awareness to Everyday Things |
X |
Intelligence Level (3) |
Inferring: |
Drawing Conclusions from Rules and Observations |
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Intelligence Level (4) |
Learning: |
Using Experience to Improve Performance |
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Intelligence Level (5) |
Anticipating: |
Thinking and Reasoning about What to Do Next |
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Intelligence Level (6) |
Self-creating, |
Ability to reproduce itself, regenerate |
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Intelligence Level (6) |
Self-organizing |
Ability for components to self-organize |
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Intelligence Level (6) |
Self-sustaining (A) |
Ability to replicate components |
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Intelligence Level (6) |
Self-sustaining (B) |
Ability to process information |
X |
Intelligence Level (6) |
Self-sustaining (C) |
Ability to steadily consume energy from the environment |
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