Technology-driven design approaches to utopia / Marios C. Phocas.

Author
Phocas, M. (Marios) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Stuttgart : Edition Axel Menges, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
177 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 18 x 24 cm

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    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.
    Bibliographic references
    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.
    ISBN
    • 3869050020 ((hardback))
    • 9783869050027 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2017377731
    OCLC
    966243327
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