Building Dynamics Symposium
Date: 2013
Project Team: Vera Parlac, Branko Kolarevic
We have seen over the past decade an increasing interest in the capacity of built spaces to respond dynamically to changes in external and internal environments and to different patterns of use. The principal idea is that two-way relationships could be established between the buildings, the environment, and users. Changes in the environment (or users) would affect the configuration of built spaces and vice versa. The result is an architecture that self-adjusts – an architecture that is adaptive, interactive, reflexive, responsive.
This symposium goes beyond the current fascination with mechatronics and explores what change means in architecture and how it is manifested. It explores the kinds of changes that buildings should undergo and the scale and speed at which they occur. It will examine which changes are necessary, useful, desirable, possible… It questions our willingness to leave the orbit of prefixed architecture and more fluidly interface with kinetic and changing environments.
Sponsors: Publications: Building Dynamics: Exploring Architecture of Change
