Interactive Architecture
Trends in ubiquitous computing are opening up new opportunities
for developing a new vision of an interactive and responsive machine-integrated
architecture. Embedding sensors and actuators in smart living space makes a
building breakthrough, from static stereotype to a space of multiplicity, adaptive capacity, and
interactivity, which are able to transform the configuration of space according
to the change of environment.
The workshop focus on the theme of “Robotic Architecture” which
explores design issues of kinetic architecture design based OSN sensing and computing
technology. Robotic architecture refers to a dynamic shape-shifting building
system that is susceptible to alter its shape and physical properties in
response to environmental conditions, user activities, and social contexts.
In considering ecological issues, we are expecting that Robotic
Architecture would not be confined to equipment of automation, but incorporates
biological mechanism, so as to mediate a symbiosis of human and nature.
As a result, robots applied in architecture will revolutionize
the stereotype of anthropomorphic robot. Its conformation and operation is the
synthesis of kinetic engineering, embedded computation, adaptable architecture,
and ecology system, an appearance of new paradigm.
Content of the workshop comprises lectures and practices. Michael
Fox is an authority on intelligent kinetic architecture. He will give lectures
on theoretical background, and carry a procedure of methodological implementation.
Students are required to construct a prototype of kinetic construction. In the process,
the trainee have chance to involve in fundamental methodology, tools, and
equipment of establishing a kinetic system. Those are scenario design in human
computer interaction, microcontroller, programming, basic knowledge of electricity,
mechanism, biomimetic, digital fabrication, and computer-aided-design
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 Keynote Speaker Prof. Michael Fox
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Ċ ď 柯秋薇, Nov 12, 2009 8:55 PM
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