a:p Sensing Space

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Architecture

ISBN: 9783939633952
English/German edition
Jovis Verlag
Softcover, 160 pages
black & white
June 2009
€22,00 (excl. VAT)

a:p Sensing Space

Future Architecture by Technology

Franziska Eidner, Nadin Heinich

Series: architektur:positionen

The future of architecture has already begun: whether as tiny sensors woven almost invisibly into materials, buildings which communicate with their surroundings via the facades, or “intelligent” houses that adapt to fit their inhabitants—the possibilities of new technologies will continue to define our everyday lives more and more. Sensing Space investigates the potentials of interactive technologies. These are not a matter of technical gadgetry, but represent a suitable response to the fresh needs of a mobile, globally networked society.

Will this technology —as an integral component of architecture— succeed not only in affecting our emotions, but also in improving the quality of spatial identity? This book presents interactive forms of architecture which should, ideally, make us all feel a little more “at home” in the future.