Inhabiting adaptive architecture

Schn�delbach, Holger

Abstract

Adaptive Architecture concerns buildings that are specifically designed to adapt to their inhabitants and to their environments. Work in this space has a very long history, with a number of adaptive buildings emerging during the modernist period, such as Rietveld’s Schröder house, Gaudi’s Casa Batlló and Chareau's Maison de Verre. Such early work included manual adaptivity, even if that was motor-assisted. Today, buildings have started to combine this with varying degrees of automation and designed-for adaptivity is commonplace in office buildings and eco homes, where lighting, air conditioning, access and energy generation respond to and influence the behaviour of people, and the internal and external climate.

Citation

Schnädelbach, H. (in press). Inhabiting adaptive architecture. https://doi.org/10.7480/ngb.3.1.1555

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 28, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Dec 28, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jan 9, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 9, 2017
• Journal: Next Generation Building
• Electronic ISSN: 2213-4433
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.7480/ngb.3.1.1555
• Keywords: Adaptive Architecture, automation, adaptivity
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/832013
• Publisher URL: http://journals.library.tudelft.nl/index.php/nextgenb/article/view/1555/1533