1st Edition

Softspace From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space

224 Pages

by Routledge

224 Pages

by Routledge

224 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

This well-illustrated book unites essayists and emerging architectural practices to examine how digital tools are increasingly being used in architectural design, not only to show form, structure and geometries but also to visualize and simulate energies and material qualities such as air, gas, sound, scent and electricity. Softspace takes stock of current advancements in design and research,... Read more

Preface: The Stuff Between, In & Around Sean Lally & Jessica Youn

Introduction: Energies, Matter & the Gradients of Space Sean Lally

Putting out the Fire with Gasoline: Parables of Entropy and Homeostasis from the Second Machine Age to the Information Age Christopher Hight

Potential Energies Sean Lally

The Phenomena of the Non-Visual Michelle Addington

Nested Capacities, Gradient Thresholds & Modulated Environments: Towards Differentiated and Multi-Performative Architectures Michael Hensel & Achim Menges

Dissipative Procedures: Optimization through ‘Phenomenonization’ Chandler Ahrens, Eran Neuman & Aaron Sprecher

Cybernetic Anything... Marcelyn Gow

The Archoid Chimera: Electric Space as Social Machine Tobi Schneidler

Eco_logics Helene Furján

Matter and Sense Jason Payne & Heather Roberge

Postscript: This Pipe is Not a Pipe Dream Lars Lerup

Postscript: I, the Scent Cube and CSI; or, the Controlled Soft Interior Bart Lootsma

Notes, Credits, Biographies