Arquitectura biodigital


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La rápida e intensiva evolución que han experimentado las tecnologías biológicas y digitales a finales del siglo XX, han producido importantes transformaciones en nuestros hábitos cotidianos y laborales. En el campo específico de la arquitectura, se iniciaba con esto, un universo de nuevos planteos que desafían las concepciones tradicionales del diseño, dando lugar a una arquitectura con una expresión espacial germinal, fluida, en continuo proceso de cambio y de transformación hasta su concreción física final. Una arquitectura de modelos digitales producidas a través de una amplia gama de herramientas tecnológicas: modelos paramétricos, algoritmos genéticos, tecnologías CAD/CAM, que permiten optimizar los recursos de un modo lógico, más allá de la construcción gráfica o del discurso exclusivamente conceptual. Revelando el peso de lo biológico y de lo digital en la práctica del arquitecto contemporáneo. En este ámbito, la presente investigación parte de la hipótesis de que un nuevo paradigma está surgiendo en el modo de concebir la arquitectura. Dentro de la situación contemporánea donde los límites disciplinares parecieran ser difusos, algunos afirman que la arquitectura biodigital es la nueva vanguardia, otros que es una moda formalista pasajera que en muy poco tiempo será olvidada. Hasta qué punto constituye dicho marco un nuevo paradigma es aún un tema sometido a debate. ¿"Revolución científica" o "anomalía"? Esta dicotomía presenta un campo abierto que será objeto de esta investigación cuyos límites y consecuencias son impredecibles.







Arquitectura Biodigital


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Metabolic Architectures


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Designing Buildings for People


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Our built environments can affect us in many subtle ways. Simply sensing fresh air and natural light or seeing greenery and open space can uplift our mood and improve our wellbeing. But these healthy environments are increasingly difficult to achieve in practice. The vital collaboration between the many people involved in designing and producing buildings is often not achieved. Then there is the pressing need to reduce waste and pollution. Managing these demands is a challenge, especially in a traditional climate of short-term thinking. Designing Buildings for People explores how we can learn from buildings of the past, vernacular architecture and the natural world around us, while still harnessing the opportunities presented by technology, to think creatively, work collaboratively and exercise a transdisciplinary approach. The book features over 200 images, exhibiting the acclaimed work of internationally recognized and research-led designers from the fields of architecture, engineering and management. It is a prime reference work for professionals and students who want to build the sustainable buildings of the future.




Sustainable Engineering for Life Tomorrow


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Sustainable Engineering for Life Tomorrow examines the future of sustainable engineering and architecture. The contributors' analyses of sustainable solutions, such as wind and solar power, offer valuable insights for future policy-making, scholarship, and the management of energy-intensive facilities.




Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures


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This book collects state-of-the-art research and technology for design, analysis, construction and maintenance of textile and inflatable structures. Textile composites and inflatable structures have become increasingly popular for a variety of applications in OCo among many other fieldsaOCo civil engineering, architecture and aerospace engineering. Typical examples include membrane roofs and covers, sails, inflatable buildings and pavilions, airships, inflatable furniture, airspace structures etc. The book contains 18 invited contributions written by distinguished authors who participated in the International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflated Structures held in Barcelona from June 30th to July 2nd, 2003. The meeting was one of the Thematic Conferences of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS). The different chapters discuss recent progress and future research directions in membrane and inflatable structures built with new textile composite materials. Approximately half of the book focuses on describing innovative numerical methods for structural analysis of such structures, such as new nonlinear membrane and shell finite elements. The rest of the chapters present advances in design, construction and maintenance procedures."