Home design computing technology for interior, To illustrate this shift in thinking, imagine that our goal is to create an environment that uses pervasive computing technology to save energy by automatically controlling the heater¬vent-air conditioning system. We assume that the environment’s embedded sensors can infer context such as where people are, what they are doing, and what the inside environmental con¬ditions are. We also assume that the home con¬tains computer-controlled HVAC appliances, windows, and blinds.
The automated home
One way to reduce resource consumption is to design a home environment that controls environmental conditions. The home’s occu¬pant informs the system via some type of user interface that he or she wishes to stay comfort¬able while saving as much energy or money as possible. The home then uses a set of opti¬mization algorithms to simultaneously maxi¬mize savings and comfort by automatically con-trolling con¬trolling the HVAC systems, windows, and blinds. For instance, on a day when the tem¬perature is predicted to shift from warm to cool, the home might determine that the optimal cooling strategy is to shut down the AC and automatically open a set of blinds and windows so as to create an efficient cross breeze.
This scenario is relatively simple compared with other smart-home visions. In practice, when making these control decisions. Because the system is so complex, the user will be left feeling frustrated—helpless to understand the behavior. Why does it keep opening the win¬dows when, clearly, the user wants and needs them closed?
The home that uses subtle reminders
Consider an alternative scenario. In this home of the future, the windows include a tiny
Technology should require human effort in ways that keep life as mentally and physically challenging as possible as people age.
however, it would be an immense challenge to achieve this simple scenario in an actual home setting. The sophistication of commonsense reasoning and context awareness that is required is daunting, given the current state of our understanding of these fields. There are many situations in which the automatic system might succeed in optimizing temperature com¬fort yet fail in “doing the right thing”: some¬thing noisy is occurring outside, someone is smoking outside the window, someone in the home is allergic to pollen and the pollen count is high, it is raining outside, it is too quiet for a person reading when the hum of the air condi¬tioner is off, someone did not want the blinds open because it throws glare on a computer screen, and so on. No matter how hard the sys¬tem designer tries to program contingency plans for all possible contexts, invariably the system will sometimes frustrate the home occupant and perform in unexpected and undesirable ways. A learning algorithm would also have difficulty because a training set will not con¬tain examples of appropriate decisions for all possible contextual situations.
There is a fundamental problem here: the more complexity the algorithms consider when making decisions, the less transparent those decisions will be to the homeowner.5 The system will actually become less predictable as it acquires more expertise, and the system’s suc¬cess some or most of the time will raise user expectations about what the system is capable of doing. Inevitably, the system will violate the user’s high expectations given the unexplain¬able “intelligence” the system sometimes shows light that is either embedded in the window frame (for example, a light-emitting diode) or projected on the window using display tech-nology (for example, an IBM Everywhere Dis¬play6). The home’s embedded sensors and opti¬mization algorithms compute a strategy for cooling the home by opening a particular set of windows, but they do not proactively imple¬ment the strategy.
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"Paris-based Atelier Zündel & Cristea Architects (A/ZC) has shared with us their entry for a competition that seeks to densen the urban fabric of Vevey, a Swiss town on the north shore of Geneva. The project is a collaboration with Swiss firm ArchitramThis competition is part of a communal initiative to strengthen the urban element at the western entrance to the city of Vevey. Located between two district highways, the site benefits from an advantageous position and a visibility without equal. There is a drawback to this location, however: the noise. Taking into account this significant constraint, we decided to design the building’s casing as a double skin..." to find out more...
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Smart-ologic Corian® Living — is the futuristic project of an interior from DuPont and Karim Rashid represented in Milan Design Week (April, 2010).Smart Ecology
The project represents the concept of the "smart" and "ecologically safe" inhabited interior created by Karim Rashid thanks to riches of possibilities DuPont™ Corian® and also exclusive properties of this advanced and widely known material.Project Smart-ologic Corian® Living demonstrate shows variety of shades DuPont™ Corian® from the newest palette of 2010 — collections Eco-Concrete and Eco-Terrazo, for the first time in world practice created with use of secondary raw materials.
Smart-ologic Corian® debuted in Milan Design Week
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Richard Rogers
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“Architecture has to follow the diversity of society, and has to reflect that a simple square or cube can’t contain that diversity.”
Toyo Ito
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A dynamic synergy between architecture, structural engineering, and ecology.
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Zaha Hadid Architects won the competition in February 2005. With its spectacular, sinuous S-shaped roof inspired by the flow of water, and certainly make it as a London landmark, made Lord Rogers, of the Richard Rogers Partnership, who co-chaired the Panel that vote the design said, “this building has an exceptional sculptural quality that will make it a wonderful building to visit, attracting people to East London. It sets the standard for architectural quality in this key regeneration area.”“The architectural concept of the London Aquatics Centre is inspired by the fluid geometry of water in motion, creating spaces and a surrounding environment in sympathy with the river landscape,” Zaha says as her reaction to lighten and brighten up what has been a very dark and dreary area of London.
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With a variable wheelbase to allow the car to sit more upright in town, the Z Car is certainly an interesting vehicle. We look forward to the next stage in its development.
“Her buildings are elegant vessels that cut through space...The choice was simple and obvious, but the best things usually are. Good design blurs distinctions about genre, and all her works have movement built into them. The design for a car is an obvious conclusion to the work that preceded it.”Schachter
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The office of Rem Koolhaas is on the seventh floor of an unremarkable office block in Rotterdam – a city “without any demands, without any scene, without any culture, without any temptations,” he says. “we live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.”"architects have never been the main authors of cities. And to the extent that they are, they have only been able to do that in the case of extreme authoritarian systems. And that is a fantastic paradox or tragedy of the architect, that our better impulses are connected to the utopian, but the utopian only works when connected to power. But I think that in any case and with the size of cities now, no one is in charge.”
Rem Koolhaas
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“The completed buildings are striking expressions of the rise of an eco-architecture on a grand urban scale.”Kenneth Powell
Richard Rogers Partnership
Daimler Chrysler
Potsdamer Platz
Berlin, Germany
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