TY - JOUR
T1 - Designing for Change
T2 - The Poetic Potential of Responsive Architecture
AU - Meagher, Mark
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - The integration of responsive components in architecture offers the potential to enhance the experience of the building by giving expression to fleeting, changeable aspects of the environment. Responsive buildings enable a physical response to changes in the environment through specific building elements; in rare cases these responsive elements become an integral and poetic element of a culturally significant work of architecture. In this paper I examine two types of responsiveness, one which concerns the changing environment and another the activities and needs of the building's inhabitants. I look at two examples of buildings that illustrate a potential poetic role for architectural components responding to these two types of change, and propose that architects will need to acquire experience with designing for specific rates, scales and types of change before responsive elements will more frequently appear as a poetic and integral part of the building.
AB - The integration of responsive components in architecture offers the potential to enhance the experience of the building by giving expression to fleeting, changeable aspects of the environment. Responsive buildings enable a physical response to changes in the environment through specific building elements; in rare cases these responsive elements become an integral and poetic element of a culturally significant work of architecture. In this paper I examine two types of responsiveness, one which concerns the changing environment and another the activities and needs of the building's inhabitants. I look at two examples of buildings that illustrate a potential poetic role for architectural components responding to these two types of change, and propose that architects will need to acquire experience with designing for specific rates, scales and types of change before responsive elements will more frequently appear as a poetic and integral part of the building.
KW - Mechanical components
KW - Poetics
KW - Responsive architecture
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84943010359&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.foar.2015.03.002
DO - 10.1016/j.foar.2015.03.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84943010359
VL - 4
SP - 159
EP - 165
JO - Frontiers of Architectural Research
JF - Frontiers of Architectural Research
SN - 2095-2635
IS - 2
ER -