Adaptive architecture

253.370 Lecture // obligatory course in module “Emerging Fields in Architecture” // 1.5 ECTS // WS

aim:

Identification of buildable structural applications and their implications for construction issues, form and function in order to aid decision-making (reasoning for what and when) in their own projects.

content:

Architectural structures are introduced that adapt to certain parameters during their lifetime. Examples are the adaptation to different environments, weather or light conditions and adaptation to the users themselves. e.g. kinematic architecture, pneumatic and inflatable architecture and interactive or adaptable architecture.

lecturers:

Henriette Bier, TU Delft

San-Hwan Lu, TU Wien

Kas Oosterhuis, ONL

Querkraft Architekten und Jung Ingenieure

Stefan Rutzinger und Kristina Schinegger, SOMA

Elisabeth Weiler, TU Wien

» schedule

Building Construction 2
Construction methods, materials, costs
Emerging materials and technologies
Energy, Engineering, Systems
Extreme Architecture
Logic of discovery: From fiction to architecture
Mediated Architecture
milestone
Objectives, Participants, Methods
Regulations, Standards