Adaptation as a Framework for Reconsidering High-Performance Residential Design: A Case Study (2013)
article⁄Adaptation as a Framework for Reconsidering High-Performance Residential Design: A Case Study (2013)
abstract⁄This paper outlines an approach to adaptive residential design explored through recent research and an executed prototype, the North House project 20072009, undertaken through an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers and students from the University of Waterloo, Ryerson University and Simon Fraser University in concert with professional and industry partners. This project aimed to develop a framework for the delivery of adaptive detached residential buildings capable of netzero energy performance in the temperate climate zone, or the near north. Within this project, the term ‘adaptive’ is developed across several tracts of conceptualization and execution including site and climatically derived models for building material composition and envelope ratios, environmentallyresponsive kinetic envelope components, intelligent HVAC controls and interactive interface design aimed at producing coevolutionary behaviors between building systems and inhabitants. A provisional definition of adaptive architecture is outlined to address this range of considerations that calls into question the stable image of domestic architecture and its relationship to energy and contemporary assumptions regarding sustainable design. This paper also outlines computational approaches to design optimization, distributed building systems integration and the humancontrols interfaces applicable to the home’s ecology of physical and information technologies.
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2013 |
| Authors |
Thun, Geoffrey; Velikov, Kathy. |
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ACADIA 13: Adaptive Architecture |
| Pages |
109-118 |
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| Entry filename |
adaptation-framework-reconsidering-high-performance-residential |
