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Technology-driven design approaches to utopia / Marios C. Phocas.
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Phocas, M. (Marios)
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English
Published/Created
Stuttgart : Edition Axel Menges, [2017]
©2017
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177 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 18 x 24 cm
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Architecture Library - Stacks
NA2543.T43 P46 2017
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Architecture and technology
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Visionary architecture
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Utopias
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Utopian fiction
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Summary note
Together with his colleagues and students at the University of Cyprus, Phocas challenges traditional definitions of utopia by presenting us with analytical research and clearly delineated visions of some architectural futures, which defy easy description. Some may view the architecture-diploma projects in this book skeptically as fantastical or even as frightening visions of some technologically driven future, but they are anything but fantasy. They should be appreciated as a continuing creative search for the defining of what is the meaning in our 21st-century world of 'utopia' and the role of architectural technology in expressing it.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction: A. Prototype Structure Design: Kinetic and interactive architecture
Inter-responsive architectural adaptive system
[ADD] active surface
Adaptive structural prototype
Interactive bridging
Architecture parasite units
Bending-active tensile building envelope
B. Transformable Functional Units Design: Compact architecture
Renewable energy production sea-units
Technological layering
Flow re. distributor structure
Interactive pier
Urban regeneration : micro-architecture
Kinetic prototype unit for extreme environments
C. Transformable Tall Structures Design: Kinetic energy architectural systems
Hexlmod
Urban units layered
Temporary urban structure
Offshore transformable habitat
High-rise airflow building prototype.
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ISBN
3869050020 ((hardback))
9783869050027 ((hardback))
LCCN
2017377731
OCLC
966243327
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Hans Dieter Schaal : landscape architecture = Landschaftsarchitektur / with a preface by Frank R. Werner/mit einem Vorwort von Frank R. Werner and photographs by Peter C. Horn/und Photographien von Peter C. Horm ; translation into English/Übersetzung ins Englische: Alison Kirkland.
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