Living machines

Living machines

Brookins, Amanda

Architectural theory

Organic architecture

Architectural education

Architectural renderings

School of Architecture 5th year final project publication.

The laws of thermodynamics limit the efficiency of machines. Similarly, machines for living squander energy and materials, exhausting resources and consuming energy in ways that negatively impact our climate. The metaphor of buildings as machines implies an antithetical relationship with the natural world, one that uses force and great amounts of energy as the solution to all design problems. A new metaphor or paradigm is needed, one that embraces existing and potentially new suitable technologies and takes its cue from the natural world. It is no longer appropriate to create machines for living, I propose a new paradigm for creative architectural thought and design: the new metaphor for architecture of the future is living machines

School of Architecture. (Troy NY: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2007)

Balfour, Alan

Parsons, Peter

Carver, Erik

Saunders, Andrew

2007-05

Electronic thesis: Bachelor of Architecture final project

Pdf; Swf

English

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