Media house project
By: IAAC, Institut d'arquitectura avancada de Catalunya ; [editor, Vicente Guallart ; photographs, Laura Cantarella, Luis Ros ; translation: Edward Krasny ...et al.].
Contributors: Guallart, Vicente.; Institut d'Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya.; Instituto Metápolis de Arquitectura Avanzada.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory.; Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya.
Publisher: IAAC; Actar
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Barcelona
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Intelligent buildings; Information technology; Home automation
Description: "The Media House Project is the fruit of a strategic alliance between the metapolis group from Barcelona, the MIT media lab, and the Fundacio Politecnica de Catalunya, with the collaboration of the consortium I2CAT and the Elisava Design School, in order to build a prototype of an informational house." "The project enables the testing of the progression of information technologies beyond that of computers and integrates them into everyday life, literally looking to build computers from the components of buildings, in such a way, that the logical intelligence of a structure can grow with its physical form."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: A project by Metápolis; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory; Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in association with ELISAVA and Internet 2 a Catalunya.

"The house is the computer. The structure is the network."--Cover.