In-between States of Kinetic Adaptive Design (Video)

Today, the spectrum between a part and its subparts can be vast and rather static, yet already, there are prototypes for architectural systems that can adapt to triggers to self-perpetuate their own form — and blur the boundaries between where their sub-parts begin and end. Such is the character... [Read More]

Rethink “Transition” to Unleash A New Kind of Design Fluidity

As new emerging technologies surface, the idea of “transition” will take on entirely new form. Not only will “transition” continue to exist between building materials (like you see in buildings today), but “transition” will also be present within a material’s... [Read More]

New Siftables, Change the Way You Work with Digital Media (Video)

An amazing new prototype called Siftables, developed at the MIT media Lab, merges the worlds of digital media and physical interfaces. The main idea behind them is to get virtual information into your hands (literally) by using a “block-like” natural interface that transcends beyond our... [Read More]

Why Differences in Spatial Reasoning can Impact Your Project

Can Desire Influence What You and Your Occupant See? This interesting experiment might just give you, as an architect, some understanding of how you and your occupants perceive “distance” — and why this aspect of spatial reasoning might vary from person to person; thus, influencing... [Read More]

Take a Virtual Tour of this LEED Platinum Green Building

Sustainable Systems Working Together as a Whole Light, water, temperature, air quality and renewable resources typically come to mind when talking about sustainable design, and to see these innovative green building issues tackled in one building project is wonderful. In this article I am calling particular... [Read More]

How Do You Inject Light into Your Building Designs? (Slideshow)

Light has many faces, and many forms. As an architect, you can “paint” with light, “sculpt” with light and guide your occupant to “touch” it. The following slideshow takes a look at how light can “set off” built form, and how built form can “set off” light. When the two fuse poetically,... [Read More]

Use Kinetic Design to Build Beautiful Behavior (Video)

Full scale architectural kinetic forms can appear to almost take off, float or flex in the most unexpected and beautiful ways. Thus, it is no surprise that as an architect, you can use kinetic design to manipulate form in time, to give you a certain freedom to inspire and reconnect your building occupant... [Read More]

Find Design Opportunity in Group Behavior

Right-handers Influence Group Behavior Simply By Choosing a Seat When designing audience seating within theaters or auditoriums, have you ever given specific thought to which seats will be used the most, and by whom? At first, it may seem strange to ponder such details when most of what you will need... [Read More]

Can “Design on Demand” Boost Corporate Culture? (Video)

Does More Choice Yield Better Customization? “Design on Demand” is becoming ever-more prevalent. With its surfacing, you and your client will be given more, and sometimes new, choice. Such customization is bound to change certain aspects of architectural design, perhaps even helping you... [Read More]

Conquering the Convergence of Architectural Technology

Adaptive Design: The Dialogue Between Building and Occupant Adaptive architecture will embody behaviors that respond to human and environmental interactions. It is with this transience that architectural space will more fully interact — or “converse” with its occupants, in grand... [Read More]

Have You Timed the Spacing of Your Architectural Features?

Fine Tune How Your Design Communicates Have you ever thought about the speed of human thought and how that might relate to your architectural design? Timing is everything. Both in the brain and throughout your architectural features, timing plays a critical role between the stimuli that your building... [Read More]

Mastering Design Innovation to Build Green Skins

Unleashing Necessity and Your Ingenuity The need to build green skins that are able to harness energy gives architects incentive to find new ways to use and guide emerging technologies. Essentially, it is necessity coupled with ingenuity that can often spark the best design innovation. As an architect,... [Read More]

A Design for Interacting with Your Own Static Energy

E-Static Shadows — Making the Intangible…Tangible Do you think architecture can make you connect with your own static energy? Well, the project E-Static Shadows found a way to do just that. In the video below, you will see how designers have taken a cross-disciplinary approach — ranging... [Read More]

Music, Experience and Your Architectural Designs

Can Music Increase Your Potential? What role does music play in your work as an architect? Do you listen to it while you design? Or do you incorporate it into your architectural designs, for your occupants? In an article recently published by The Boston Globe, Carolyn Y. Johnson writes about a surgeon... [Read More]

Using Design to Make the “Waiting Room” a Good Thing

What Should People Do When They Wait? How do you design for the function of waiting? Do your building occupants ever really wait? Typically, they move from one activity to another, but it is equally important to also design for those in-between moments. What happens during those “between”... [Read More]

7 Ways to Keep Architects Inspired for 2010 (News)

To create great buildings, one needs to maintain passion, focus and drive. A critical component to all three of these is inspiration. As you engage in the day-to-day aspects of your work, what keeps you inspired? What keeps you wanting to make your next design even better than your last? And how do... [Read More]

2009: A Successful First Year — Readers, I Thank You (News)

Thank You, Readers — for the Exponential Growth After one full year of blogging, I would like to extend appreciation to my readers, for all of the support that you have shown through your comments and e-mails in 2009. It is very encouraging to know that so many of you truly care about the advancement... [Read More]

10 Ways to Design Architecture that Defies Gravity (Slideshow)

Architects are constantly defying gravity. We built into and with the sky, and the way in which we engage it says a lot about our work. Building upward involves more than just getting your occupants to look up. The following is a 10 image slideshow presented with hopes to inspire you to think about... [Read More]

Science Can Spark Your Design Ideas (Video)

Designs are increasingly inspired by nature in novel and unique ways — inspiring not only architectural buildings, but also the objects within them. “Science inspired designs” are sparking some very innovative and practical solutions. Mathieu Lehanneur is just such a designer who,... [Read More]

New Year: 2010 Goals for Sensing Architecture (News)

2009 Has Been an Amazing Year Sensing Architecture has had quite an amazing year in 2009. Really, this website was brand-new at the beginning of the year, in January. Ever since then, it has been rapidly growing and now its readership is exponentially compounding. Projected to reach approximately 20,000... [Read More]

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