You can quite literally be swallowed up in it . . . If the building is going to become a kind of terminal anyway, you might as well go ahead and make it an interactive medium. The introduction of sensor technology heralds a new age in which architecture can be programmed to respond to highly specific actions. Connected by an efficient interface to the display possibilities I just described, recording cameras, scanners, electronic eyes, sound and heat detectors, infrared systems, and the like, architecture can generate a dynamism that finally eclipses the significance of the static object altogether. The architectural design encompasses not just the object, but also the reaction of that object to the subject.
Architecture becomes intimately involved with experience.
The building or urban environment does not move because it has been turned into an animation but because you, the actor, animate it. Once the building is interactive, the next step is to connect the architecture to digital networks and bring it 'online'. Now that digitization processes are making headway in both the creation and experiencing of environments, it is possible to link physically separate environments to one another. Once architecture has been redefined as 'information,' this can be rendered compatible by means of a protocol-juggling interface. This in turn can be linked to other environments, analogue as well as digital.