Hyperbodies : Toward an E-motive Architecture

by Oosterhuis, Kas

• ISBN13: 9783764369699
• ISBN10: 3764369698
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Kas Oosterhuis repositions the architect in society today as a well-trained hyperconscious idiot savant. Audacious intuition must be trained to decide in split seconds, like the Formula I driver. Today's architect is an information architect, able to act intuitively and to process rationally at the same time. He naturally investigates and practises architecture as a realtime transaction space, buildings are seen as processes running in real time. Building components communicate with other building components. All are members of the swarm, members of the hive. Swarm architecture implies that all building elements operate as intelligent agents, data-carriers and data-processing devices. Swarm architecture feeds on data generated by social transactions in the new transformation economy. In the process of collaborative design and engineering the participants work in the communication flow of the swarm. The collaborative work is based on parametric, generic and genetic design principles, on scripts and formulas with a multitude of variables. The modern informed architect is the designer of intelligent vehicles, executing a game of life and death. Architecture becomes the art of building prototypes for fluid dynamic structures and environments running in real time. Architecture no longer has the hidden agenda to resist external and internal forces. Buildings are pro-active hyperbodies displaying real time behaviour. Buildings are familiar but unpredictable like the weather. Architecture goes wild and e-motive. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Kaas Oosterhuis is Professor at the Technical University Delft.

Table of Contents

1. The Information Architect in Society Today	5	(1)
2. The Innovative Architect	5	(2)
3. The Architect's New Data-driven Practice	7	(3)
4. The New Responsibilities of the Architect	10	(4)
5. The Laboratory	14	(1)
6. Architectural Education Revisited	15	(2)
7. Building Bodies	17	(5)
8. Data Carriers	22	(1)
9. Information Theory	23	(4)
10. Input > output Devices	27	(4)
11. Information Flow	31	(1)
12. Direct Access to the Project Data	32	(4)
13. Distributed Being	36	(2)
14. Artificial Intuition	38	(1)
15. Split Second	39	(3)
16. PC Computation Power	42	(4)
17. Distributed Project Database	46	(1)
18. Data-driven Process	47	(2)
19. Communication	49	(2)
20. Senders & Receivers	51	(4)
21. Sensors and Actuators	55	(3)
22. The Swarm	58	(4)
23. Multi-player Interface	62	(1)
24. Do not Kill the Process	63	(2)
25. Connected Hyperbodies	65	(2)
26. Instrumental Hyperbodies	67	(2)
27. Transaction Spaces	69	(1)
28. E-motive Bandwidth	70	(4)
29. The Nature of the Game	74	(1)
30. The Rules of the Game	75	(1)
31. The Scale-free Networks of Buildings	76	(2)
32. Bi-directional Connectors	78	(2)
33. The Scale-free Networks of the Design Process	80	(2)
34. Build Prototypes	82	(8)
35. Direct Democracy	90
36. Architecture in the Information Economy	83	(8)
Glossary of Terms	91	(2)
Credits	93