Sky Condos. Architectural Design Concept

Actar, Baumgartner + Uriu Architecture, Energy and sustainability, Essay, expanding design practices, Senseable Technologies, Technology and fabrication, Urban Paradigms, XXL-XS

Architecture&nature, Art&technology, Artificial nature, Biological technologies, Biomimetic architecture, Civic Technologies, Controlling nature, Digital technologies, Dwelling organisms, Ecological researches, Ecological urbanism, Environmental technologies, Environmental&technological, Essay, Experimental housing, Housing, Intelligent Infrastructure, Interactive building, Interactive close-environment, Lima, Nature, Nature vs. Artificial, Organism, Perú, Responsive Environment, Responsive technologies, Self-sufficient Housing, Shaping environments, Technonature

Published in XXL-XS, New Directions in Ecological Design, 2017 -- https://lccn.loc.gov/2016938024

XXL-XS represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Geo-engineering, synthetic biology, construction site co-robotics, low-energy fabrication, up-cycling waste, minimally invasive design, living materials, and molecular self-assembly are just a few of the important advances explored in the book.
At one extreme are massive public works, at the other, micro to nano-sized interventions that can have equally profound impacts on our world. From terraforming to bio-manufacturing, a whole new generation of designers is proposing unique ways of confronting the difficult challenges ahead. In this way design becomes a totality of relationships that affects all disciplines, which can no-longer be thought of as self-contained fields, each handled separately by narrowly focused specialists. Globalization demands a restructuring of the profession, as we know it. This requires a new breed of generalists who can work across fields and engage research on multiple sites around the globe. Today we need planetary designers versed in the craft of integral design.