Towards Comprehensive Space: A context for the programming/design of cybrids (2003)
article⁄Towards Comprehensive Space: A context for the programming/design of cybrids (2003)
abstract⁄Cybrids have been presented as mixed realities spatial, architectural compositions comprised of physical and cyberspaces Anders 1997. In order to create a rigorous approach to the design of architectural cybrids, this paper offers a model for programming their spaces. Other than accepting cyberspaces as part of architecture’s domain, this approach is not radical. Indeed, many parts of program development resemble those of conventional practice. However, the proposition that cyberspaces should be integrated with material structures requires that their relationship be developed from the outset of a project. Hence, this paper provides a method for their integration from the project’s earliest stages, the establishment of its program. This study for an actual project, the Planetary Collegium, describes a distributed campus comprising buildings and cyberspaces in various locales across the globe. The programming for these cybrids merges them within a comprehensive space consisting not only of the physical and cyberspaces, but also in the cognitive spaces of its designers and users.
