Meeting nature halfway
Subtitle: architecture interfaced between technology and environment
By: editors, Marjan Colletti and Peter Massin
Publisher: Innsbruck University Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Innsbruck
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9783903187184
Subjects: Architecture; Technological innovations; Environmental aspects
Description: The hefty weight of responsibility - both in terms of economy and in particular ecology - which was recently put upon the discipline's shoulders drastically challenges the conventions of architectural design. Architecture can no longer ignore nature; on the contrary: it must act as a prosthetic device for it towards the creation of an architecture 2.0 - a new kind of synthetic ecosystem where the natural domain and the artificial domain coexist. For two and a half years, the Unit Hochbau at the Institute for Experimental Architecture of the University of Innsbruck has operated under the umbrella theme 'Meeting Nature Halfway'. The resulting research gathers a multitude of design based, technology-based and environment-based perspectives on how architecture interfaces between digital/building technology and digital/natural environment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.