Research Catalog

Title

Architectural robotics : ecosystems of bits, bytes, and biology / Keith Evan Green.

Author

Green, Keith Evan

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

xi, 264 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The relationship of humans to computers can no longer be represented as one person in a chair and one computer on a desk. Today computing finds its way into our pockets, our cars, our appliances; it is ubiquitous - an inescapable part of our everyday lives. Computing is even expanding beyond our devices; sensors, microcontrollers, and actuators are increasingly embedded into the built environment. In Architectural Robotics, Keith Evan Green looks toward the next frontier in computing: interactive, partly intelligent, meticulously designed physical environments. Green examines how these "architectural robotic" systems will support and augment us at work, school, and home, as we roam, interconnect, and age. Green tells the stories of three projects from his research lab that exemplify the reconfigurable, distributed, and transfigurable environments of architectural robotics. The Animated Work Environment is a robotic work environment of shape-shifting physical space that responds dynamically to the working life of the people within it; home+ is a suite of networked, distributed "robotic furnishings" integrated into existing domestic and healthcare environments; and LIT ROOM offers a simulated environment in which the physical space of a room merges with the imaginary space of a book, becoming "a portal to elsewhere." How far beyond workstations, furniture, and rooms can the environments of architectural robotics stretch? Green imagines scaled-up neighborhoods, villages, and metropolises composed of physical bits, digital bytes, living things, and their hybrids. Not global but local, architectural robotics grounds computing in a capacious cyber-physical home"--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Architecture and technology
• Architecture > Human factors
• Cooperating objects (Computer systems)
• Robotics > Human factors
• Buildings > Environmental engineering
• Smart materials in architecture
• Intelligent buildings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.

Contents

Scenes from a marriage -- Of metaphors, stories, and forms -- Spaces of many functions -- In awe of the new workflow -- The reconfigurable environment -- Living rooms -- The art of home+ -- Portals to elsewhere -- A lit room for the persistence of print -- The transfigurable environment -- Ecosystems of bits, bytes, and biology.

Call Number

JQE 16-225

ISBN

• 9780262033954
• 026203395X

LCCN

2015037895

OCLC

926050542

Author

Green, Keith Evan, author.

Title

Architectural robotics : ecosystems of bits, bytes, and biology / Keith Evan Green.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index.

Research Call Number

JQE 16-225