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self-similar patterns
dissimilar patterns
Marin County Civic Center, F.L.Wright
Berger house

F.L.W Palmer house: usonian houses

the entire structure is essentially a single triangle that is dilated,
rotated, and translated multiple times to form the rooms and walls.
 Hypersurface
Architecture
A hypersurface is a new theory of liquid-
embodied architecture to displace the nostalgia and re-
realization being carried into the spatial conceptions of new-
media technology.
NOX - Son-O-House - The Netherlands

Located in a a large industrial park the Son-

O-House is a public pavilion where visitors
can sit around, eat their lunch and have
meetings, surrounded by IT related
companies.
 NOX - Son-O-House - The Netherlands

The structure is both an architectural and a sound installation that allows people to not just hear sound in a
musical structure, but also to participate in the composition of the sound. It is an instrument, score and studio at
the same time.

A sound work, made by composer Edwin van der Heide, is continuously generating new
sound patterns activated by sensors picking up actual movements of visitors.
 NOX - D-Tower – The
Netherlands

D-tower is an art piece, commissioned by the city of Doetinchem in the Netherlands, that
maps the emotions of the inhabitants of Doetinchem. D-tower measures HAPPINESS, LOVE,
FEAR and HATE daily using different questions.
The D-Tower is a project where the
intensive (feelings, qualia) and the
extensive (space, quantities) start
exchanging roles, where human
action, color, money, value, feelings
all become networked entities.

The D-tower consists of three parts:

a website (accessible to everybody),
a questionnaire (accessible to a
hundred different people each year
that have a special password) and a
Tower. All three parts are interactively
related to each other.
The building is a 12 meter high structure where standard and non-standard geometry's make
up a complex surface made of epoxy formed by a computer generated molding technique (CNC
milled styrofoam).
NOX
D-Tower
Doetinchem, The Netherlands

The building is directly connected to the website in two

different ways.
1. The website is a visualization of the responses of the
45,000 inhabitants of Doetinchem to a questionnaire,
written by the Rotterdam based artist Q.S. Serafijn, which
deals with daily emotions like Hate, Love, Happiness and
Fear.
Every month the questions become more precise, and all
the answers are graphed in different "Emotion Landscapes"
made visible on the website to show how this city is dealing
with its emotions.
2. The four emotions are represented by four colors: Green,
Red, Blue and Yellow, which are also the colors of the lamps
illuminating the building.

In the capsule placed underneath the Tower inhabitants of

Doetinchem can also place their own personal messages on
the "Landscapes".
RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE

• An evolving field of architectural practice and research.

• Measures actual environmental conditions (via sensors) to enable buildings to adapt their form,
shape, color or character responsively
• Aim to refine and extend the discipline of architecture by improving
the energy performance of buildings with responsive technologies (sensors / control systems
/ actuators) while also producing buildings that reflect the technological and cultural
conditions of our time.
FUTURE VENICE

As part of the Future Venice Project, Rachel Armstrong,

one of the leading figures in the field
of Architecture & Synthetic Biology, has proposed that
protocells could be used to grow an
artificial limestone reef reinforcing the foundations of
Venice
Protocells are chemical agents that behave in lifelike ways
(such as growth and
multiplication).
• They can therefore be manipulated to both form and
sustain a material, in this case a
reinforcing 'biocrete' for the foundations of Venice.
• This application of 'living technology' could see huge
changes in our approach to architecture
and sustainability in the coming years.
THE HYGROSKIN METEOROSENSITIVE PAVILION
• Recently launched by a team at the University of
Stuttgart led by Professor Achim Meges, this
new mode of climate-responsive architecture uses the
naturally responsive capacity of a basic
material, wood, to allow a simple, dynamic manipulation of
a building's humidity.
• Requiring no additional source of energy or mechanical
control, the HygroSkin uses the
natural elasticity of wood in relation to moisture content to
adjust the movement of apertures
embedded within concave plywood sheets.
ECHOVIREN PAVILION
• This summer, Californian practice
Smith | Allen, presented the first entirely
3D printed
architectural structure, a modular, site-
responsive pavilion that changes shape
in accordance
to the shapes and forms of its forest
surroundings.
• The structure is composed from 585
interlocking components made from
plant-based biodegradable
plastics.
ABU DHABI CENTRAL
MARKET
• In 2010, Hoberman Associates
applied their Permea system of
exterior shading roofs to three
public squares within the Abu
Dhabi Central Market retail
complex by Foster + Partners.
• Working from a dynamic grid
reacting to levels of sunlight, the
kinetic design of the shading
roof resembles a traditional
coffered Islamic roof.
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