Responsive architecture

This enables architects to reconsider the way they design and construct space while striving to advance the discipline rather than applying patchworks of intelligent technologies to an existing vision of "building".

Negroponte proposes that responsive architecture is the natural product of the integration of computing power into built spaces and structures, and that better performing, more rational buildings are the result.

Negroponte also extends this mixture to include the concepts of recognition, intention, contextual variation, and meaning into computing and its successful (ubiquitous) integration into architecture.

The works of Diller & Scofidio (Blur), dECOi (Aegis Hypo-Surface),[2] and NOX (The Freshwater Pavilion, NL) are all classifiable as types of responsive architecture.

All of these works depend upon the abilities of computers to continuously calculate and join digital models that are programmable, to the real world and the events that shape it.

Research in the area of responsive architecture has had far more to do with the building structure[4] itself, its ability to adapt to changing weather conditions and to take account of light, heat and cold.

[5] Climate adaptive building shells (CABS) can be identified as a sub-domain of responsive architecture, with special emphasis on dynamic features in facades and roofs.