Shape Shifters - Architecture schools use robotics to design buildings that react to the environment by Jim Rendon
http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20070919/shape-shifters
The journal article discusses how university students and architects have started to merge computer science and architecture, resulting in responsive robotic implementations in architectural designs. Since 2007, responsive, robotic architecture have been on the rise. Not only are they being tested by students at universities and architects/engineers, but there are now plans and constructions that have responsive natures that are currently being implemented within the designs of the buildings. "Far-fetched as it may seem, robotic buildings are already starting to be realized in places like Dubai".
With the new developing technologies avaiable, more and more previously "far fetched" ideas are now becoming a possibility. Buildings of the future would no longer be static, but instead would become dynamic and responsive. Seth Edward's a student, commented in the article that “If kinetic buildings can sense something going on in the environment and respond to it, they are no longer stale objects,” and that “They become more like plants—they are actually more connected to nature.”
The article then provides more examples of buildings that have these technologies implemented as part of the design and further implies that as technology progresses, it can be expected that the future architectural world would be dominated by these responsive, robotic buildings and implementations.
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