Angelos Floros

Presented: 10th International Conference on Architecture and Built Environments, April 4-6, Berlin, S.ARCH , 2023, link

Book of Abstracts

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This work examines the key role of networks as a symbiotic model of human and robotic culture in common ground. It applies a method that brings together future technology of transportation with current and emerging needs of society into the time present. The Dronecote (or the House of Drones) is a realization project, a think tank for applications that applies to Public Sphere (Habermas, 1989), bridging communication and transportation technologies using applications and infrastructure of urban, suburban and regional societies. It is based on pre-internet culture where societies used doves (pigeons) as a centralized or decentralized: node-based communication and information exchange.

Dronecote is a free-standing structure or extending to a building that hosts drones to serve the community in the digital and information era. The structure is located in urban, suburban or countryside areas.

Dronecote as a practice based research emerges two questions a) how our civilization can capitalize the achievements of the past and b) how does it feel to live today together with the future?

"Time present and time past/Are both perhaps present in time future/And time future contained in the past./If all time is eternally present/All time is unredeemable." TS Eliot. In these sentences of the poem, Eliot sets the importance of present time in our everyday life. Memories of the past are related to present time and future time linking individuals to timeshape form. This approach is used to describe the role of memory and past time to human existence as a meditation process and how people and societies interact with time.  The concept of time embeds a variety of methods that led us to understand the sense of timelessness. Eliot, suggests that the past and the future are contained within all moments. In this project, time gains spatial characteristics helping us to module an evolution process for communities, that evolves robotic technology on society needs and values.

Scope of Dronecote project is to provide a syllabus to analyze achievements of the past. This research focuses on the use of pigeons as a method of communication since the ancient years, looking back to the history of cultures and communities. Since then, dovecotes became very popular worldwide and had a distinguished role in regional economy, politics and war.

Dronecote proposes a method to design and develop a house of drones as a flexible transportation and delivery method for urban, suburban and regional area. Dronecote offer tools to give to applicants a proper opportunity to design the role of networks within the symbiotic model of Robots and Humans in present and future time.

Dronecote project is a part of the research program HAL (Hub of Artistic Laboratories) of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University which is set ti yield multiple benefits for the Ionian Islands Prefecture.

Keywords: Present Time, Transportation, Drones, Robotic Age, Urban, Suburban, Communication, Media Architecture

Topic: T1 State of Affairs and Future Visions - Adaptable Architecture