Few notes on the discussion on SENTIENT architecture (Interactive Architecture event held January 17, 2006):
The event was about proposing “possible futures” for architecture (Jeffrey Huang)!
Brian Knep: his art pieces are aware of who is in front of it; this involves a direct interaction + indirect interaction as people are essential part of the work
To check, Pattie Maes’ Ambient Artificial Group projects at the MIT Media Lab, and especially the On the Move Interaction with Everyday Objects, a project on augmented objects using RFID tags; as you hold an object, your cell phone displays extra information through bracelet reader
Muriel Waldvogel, Principal, Convergeo: “sentient = a space private or public that can feel your presence”
Antoine Picon, Professor of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design: A. Picon mentioned the architect Cedric Price who already designed a house that could detect mood, even sometimes the architecture would react against the users… This, he says, gives space to chance, and the unpredictable, which is a concept even more interesting to explore today. “Space is a projection of the self… What happens when it starts reacting [different than responding] to us?”
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Valerie C says:
This project was conceived with John and Julia Frazer: The Generator
“As a consultant in partnership with Julia Frazer, he worked with Cedric Price for the Generator Project USA 1976 – 1980 which real breakthrough was to give the Generator a concept of boredom.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frazer
http://www.autotectonica.org
February 1st, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Yaz says:
Précieuse l’info!!
En pianotant j’ai donc trouvé : http://www.christianhubert.com/hypertext/intelligent_building.html
Extrait : “The first (?) intelligent building project was the “Generator” project by Cedric Price and Walter Segal for the Gilman Paper Corporation, with John and Julia Frazer consulting. (See John Frazer, An Evolutionary Architecture, AA Association, 1995, pp. 40-41) The project consisted of a series of relocatable structures on a permanent grid of building pads on a site in Florida. By imbedding a single-chip microprocessor in each component of the building, the building itself would function as a vast array processor, whose configuration was directly related to the configuration it was modeling. The building would not only be reconfigured by its users, for newly defined needs, but would also be able to learn from alterations it made its own organization and coach itself to make better suggestions. If the users did not change it enough, it would become “bored” and figure out new configurations itself.”
February 1st, 2006 at 6:19 pm