Cybrids: Integrating Cognitive and Physical Space in Architecture (1997)
article⁄Cybrids: Integrating Cognitive and Physical Space in Architecture (1997)
abstract⁄People regularly use nonphysical, cognitive spaces to navigate and think. These spaces are important toarchitects in the design and planning of physical buildings. Cognitive spaces inform design often underlyingprinciples of architectural composition. They include zones of privacy, territory and the space of memory andvisual thought. They let us to map our environment, model or plan projects, even imagine places like Heavenor Hell. Cyberspace is an electronic extension of this cognitive space. Designers of virtual environments alreadyknow the power these spaces have on the imagination. Computers are no longer just tools for projectingbuildings. They change the very substance of design. Cyberspace is itself a subject for design. Withcomputers architects can design space both for physical and nonphysical media. A conscious integration ofcognitive and physical space in architecture can affect construction and maintenance costs, and the impacton natural and urban environments. This paper is about the convergence of physical and electronic space and its potential effects onarchitecture. The first part of the paper will define cognitive space and its relationship to cyberspace. Thesecond part will relate cyberspace to the production of architecture. Finally, a recent project done at theUniversity of Michigan Graduate School of Architecture will illustrate the integration of physical andcyberspaces.
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| Year |
1997 |
| Authors |
Anders, Peter. |
| Issue |
Design and Representation |
| Pages |
17-34 |
| Library link |
J. Peter Jordan, Bettina Mehnert & Anton Harfmann, 1997. bib⁄Design and Representation. ACADIA. |
| Entry filename |
cybrids-integrating-cognitive-physical-space-architecture |
