THE IMPACT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES ON ARCHITECTURE "RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE"

Abstract

Nature is in a constant state of flux. The vast majority of the built environment is completely static, opposite of the continuous alterations the natural environment endures. Parallel with nature, humans are constantly dynamic; moving, changing, sensing, and reacting to their surroundings and the information they process. These characteristics of humans and the buildings they occupy are completely contrasting, thus creating a barrier between the two, the convergence of embedded computation and kinetics in architectural form with the intention to involve human and environmental responses creates an architecture that could be termed interactive or responsive, but can also be cybernetic