EAN: 9783110403725

VIBRANT ARCHITECTURE - RACHEL ARMSTRONG GEBUNDEN

This book sets out the conditions under which the need for a new approach to the production of
architecture in the twenty-first century is established  where our homes and cities are facing
increasing pressures from environmental challenges that are compromising our lives and well
being. Vibrant architecture embodies a new kind of architectural design practice that explores
how lively materials  or 'vibrant matter'  may be incorporated into our buildings to confer on
them some of the properties of living things  such as movement  growth  sensitivity and
self-repair. The theoretical and practical implications of how this may occur are explored
through the application of a new group of materials. Characteristically  these substances
possess some of the properties of living systems but may not have the full status of being
truly alive. They include forms of chemical artificial life such as 'dynamic droplets' or
synthetically produced soils. As complex systems  they are able to communicate directly with
the natural world using a shared language of chemistry and so  negotiate their continued
survival in a restless world. Vibrant architecture may create new opportunities for
architectural design practice that venture beyond top-down form-finding programs  by enabling
architects to co-design in partnership with human and nonhuman collectives  which result from
the production of post natural landscapes. Ultimately  vibrant architecture may operate as an
ecological platform for human development that augments the liveliness of our planet  rather
than diminishes it.

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