by rasor
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location.
boulder colorado
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automation passive versus active participation
The gap between technology and architectural form and representation. Adaptive house = new technologies with traditional and conservative architecture.
Invisible technologies
How can we stay active and engaged in increasingly automated and self responsive environments?
How can marginal lifestyles, unconventionnal use patterns become predictable, be computer analysed and = action?
How can we, or should we confuse, alter creatively sensors and automation technologies?
Automation versus self-organisation
adaptive house
Circa 1926
Adapive House today
A light sensor outside
A temperature sensor outside
A sensor panel. On the left are sensors for temperature, ambient light, and sound. On the right is a speaker that allows the house to talk to the inhabitant. A sensor panel. On the left are sensors for temperature, ambient light, and
Controls
The furnace and a computer override switch
sensors
Another sensor panel, in the kitchen. There are 12 of these panels throughout the house.