Title & Author:

Self-sufficient habitat : 5th advanced architecture contest / Iaac, Institute for advance architecture of Catalonia.

Publication:

New York ; Barcelona : Actar, 2016.

Description:

303 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 16 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Self-sufficiency and inter-action / Manual Gausa, IAAC Dean -- Alive / Areti Markopoulou, Academic Director -- The productive city / Vicente Guallart, Chief Architect City of Barcelona -- Back to the future / Tomas Diez, Director FabLab Barcelona -- Jury's members -- Winners -- Projects: Theories & Strategies -- Social & collaborative -- Parametric systems -- Behavioural technology -- Adaptive & Reactive -- Data landscapes -- Participants origin -- Projects names.

Summary:

Material Intelligence, simulations, sensors, actuators, as well as the bio-mimetic and digital manufacturing innovations provide revolutionary ideas on growth, adaptability, repair, sensitivity, replication and energy savings in architecture. Should we continue constructing rigid and fixed structures? Or can our habitats begin to think?

ISBN:

1940291739 (paperback)
9781940291734 (paperback)

Subject:

Sustainable architecture.
Architecture Sociological aspects.
Architecture Human factors.
Architecture and society.
Architecture durable.
Architecture et société.
Architecture Facteurs humains.

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings

Added entries:

Institut d'Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 295901
Call No.: BIB 242270
Status: Available