Reflexive Architecture machine

REFLEXIVE ARCHITECTURE MACHINE by University of Buffalo and AA London .

HINT: Arch. that transform itself in responses to changes in its environment.

"It re-imagines how we shape and assemble conventional materials, like rubber, plastic, and wood through a combination of material and computational processes to develop more complex relations between parts and wholes. This fundamentally challenges the static nature of conventional building materials and sensitizes them to the ephemeral and dynamic qualities of environmental conditions like heat, moisture, air chemistry and gravity."*

*from the the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Adaptive Facade

ADAPTIVE FACADE by Marilena Skavara

HINT: Facade that adapt to its environment.

"‘Adaptive Fa[ca]de’ explores the functional possibilities and performative characteristics of cellular automata (CA). In addition to the unique emergent behaviour of CA, a neural network enables a further computational layer to evolve CA behaviour to the context of its surrounding environment."*

*from Adapative Architecture and Computation programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture.