Responsive/Interactive

Responsive Architecture

OR

Interactive Architecture

 _ Al Bahar Towers

Responsive

Adapt to environment

Key systems:

sensors
control systems
actuators

_Enteractive
Interactive


Communication with environment
Key systems:
sensors
processors
effectors

“Adaptation is the evolutionary process whereby a population becomes better suited to its habitat.”

– Charles Darwin

Diagrams

_Basic diagrams

 

 

  

"First life, then spaces, then buildings

-the other way around never works" 

_Jan Gehl 

 _Life

_Space

 _Buildings

Public space

_Public space

 

How does one  "personalize" public space?

_Buffer spaces

long term "personalization"

_Conceptual sketches

 

 _Divide square

 short term "personalization"

 

_What are those changing borders?

_changing walls?

_Water installations?

 

_On a larger scale

 

_Uses development

   

Panel1

_Panel 1

Distorting the grid

Parametric design, grid spreading around points

 

Panel2

_Panel 2

Living units

Grid, finding the balance between unity and diversity

 

Panel3

_Panel 3

 Public space above ground

Examples of public spaces on different levels

 

Personalize

_Personalize

I want to be different!

BEING UNIQUE IS BETTER 

THAN BEING PERFECT

_What is personalization?

1. Design or produce (something) to meet someone’s individual requirements.
2. Make (something) identifiable as belonging to a particular person, especially by marking it with their name or initials. 
3. Personify (something, especially a deity or spirit).
4. To make personal, as by applying a general statement to oneself. 
   
   
   
   _Modules

 

Legos are prefabricated pieces that can come together and create multiple combinations. They are the best example of technology enabling each person's individuality to affect the end result.

In 2011 there was a devastating earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand.  A big part of the inner city, mostly high rise buildings, collapsed. As part of the project to rebuild the center of the city it was decided that people should have a say in how they wanted their city to be. David Sim, of Gehl Architects, had the idea of a program where people had the opportunity to build a model of their ideal city with simple lego blocks. He, however, recognized the danger of the idea of building a city from a bird's eye view and put an extra task at the "Lego workshop", to build one's self into the city. So people had to put themselves as a figurine in the city and comprehend the importance of human scale. This was a perfect example of how simple modules can come together and create several different scenarios.

Lego workshop

Modules

_City in modules

A city is the compilation of the people living there, a collage made up by their lives. But in reality if we don't want this situation to create a chaotic environment we need to take into consideration the importance of individuality from the very beginning.

Nowadays, there have been some attempts to create living units that can adapt to individual needs, but on the same time they create unified results.

_Re-purposed containers

Container city

Completion date:  2002

Installation time: 8 days

Location: Trinity Buoy Wharf, London

Engineer: Buro Happold

Units created: 22

 

Living units

_Rooms are modules

Create a basic living unit based on human dimensions and use it to create infinite combinations.

_Multiple units

When multiple units exist in a lot, it is highly possible that mixed uses will appear as well. So, units must not be identical to each other, although they should remain similar. That can be achieved easily by changing their size or position on a lot.

Example