Archicreature: Living building to terraform the earth

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title: Archicreature: Living building to terraform the earth

creator: Son Thai Nguyen

subject: Architecture, Technological innovations; Architecture and biology; Sustainable architecture, Designs and plans; Wentworth Design Excellence Award winner (2020)

description: The purpose of this book is to explore different ways technologies have impacted the way we build. The book will begin to explore how architecture in the past was thought of as monuments and timeless constructions and how that notion is changing in today’s technology-driven world. Many case studies in the literature review, as well as design explorations conducted in the following chapters, will demonstrate the use of smart materials, sensory systems, and machine learning in designing and operating an efficient building. The central design exploration in thebook will be focusing on utilizing all known and projected technology to create a living building that can terraform the desertover time. While the project in this book might be visionary, itsprimary goal is to encourage architects and designers to rethinkarchitecture as a living organism that is capable of performingmetabolic activities. The building of the future will be sentientbeings that harmonize humans with the earth.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2020

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language: eng

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