Building Dynamics Symposium
Saturday, Apr 27, 20132 AM — Sunday, Apr 28, 20132 AMEDT
| Calgary/Banff, Canada
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BUILDING DYNAMICS: EXPLORING ARCHITECTURE OF CHANGE www.buildingdynamics.org International Symposium, Friday and Saturday, April 26 & 27, 2013 Organized by the Laboratory for Integrative Design (LID) Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary 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 and 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. By adding sensors, actuators and controllers to various systems, buildings are in a way becoming large scale robots. This symposium will go beyond this current fascination with mechatronics and will explore what change means in architecture and how it is manifested: buildings weather, programs change, envelopes adapt, interiors are reconfigured, systems replaced. It will explore 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... SPEAKERS Michelle Addington, New Haven, USA Philip Beesley, Toronto, Canada Peter Cook, London, UK Anna Dyson, New York, USA Michael Fox, Los Angeles, USA Usman Haque, London, UK Edwin Hathaway, Santa Monica, USA Chuck Hoberman, New York, USA Robert Kronenburg, Liverpool, UK David Leatherbarrow, Philadelphia, USA Greg Lynn, Los Angeles, USA Kas Oosterhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands Enric Ruiz-Geli, Barcelona, Spain Brian Sinclair, Calgary, Canada Tristan Sterk, Chicago, USA Skylar Tibbits, Boston, USA CHAIRS Branko Kolarevic and Vera Parlac, Calgary, Canada For more information and to register visit www.buildingdynamics.org.
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