IaaC Advanced Architecture Contest

Pedro Duarte Bento

Portugal

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Building a house is a veryintimate .Firstly a man approached this subject using light, framework construction,which was filled afterwords, because the man was set on time.The idea of our project was to create a building, which man could quick build by himself as well as pull down and relocate. In order to this idea we used a triangle which is a statistically unchangeable a result it is
constructional independenet . The construction consists of light prefabicated elements which are easy to transport and rnontope A Frame of the network is filled by triangular elements, which are able to montage according to self invention.

Paweł Krzysztof Dadok

Michał Rogowski

Poland

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The Chili River Valley is located between extensives urban degraded areas with a descontrolled growth, a real threat for his destruction,
because the city has given the back to the River all the time. The location presents two significant activities: the agriculture and the torism. The main strategy merges these work sources like an unique organism, inside of an extend net of interdependent symbiotic nodes (HBMS), applicable for others agricultural zones in Peru. So the CHACARERO (urban farmer) and the tourist work together in all phases of development (Planning, design, self-manufacture and assembled of the model kit). The building is conceived as an extension of the landcrops, and is made with tecnics, materials, and tools taken from the local context.

The structures and envelopes are 100% recycled and reused, and changes according to climate variations or number of occupants. All spaces change with the time according to new needs of their inhabitants. The entire structure is a big system of heating andcooling like a biological radiator with 100% of Lo-tech performance.

Carlos Bartesaghi Koc

Arq. Dora Guillen de Arce
Arq. Ulrich Zanabria Ojeda

Peru

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We boldly present this prototy pe lo be “built by anyone and lo be accessible by everyone.” Our proposal is to make Ihe concepl of Sell-Fab House free from any lorm ot manulactu ring íhat mighl require an induslrial procesa . The mtennon is lo spread Ihe idea ralher than gain Irom il. We propase free-sourcing or Iree dislribution 01Ihe knowledge 01reconliguring Ihe standards 01a dwelling lo become sellsull icient. The conce pl is to “relocate” everybody ’s idea 01a house and encou rage part icipation lo ellecl a wider change we can call , Movement Bayanihan, Bayanihan is a Filipino word derived Irom tne word “cavan.” meaning towo. nation or community. Bayanihan literafy means . “Beinq a bayan.” and is mus used lo reter to a spirit 01communal cornrnoruty ano cocceranon. Ttus ts most clearly osotsveo in me oto traomon 01neighbors helping lo reiocate a family by getting enough vclunteers lo carry Ihe wnole reuse. ano uterany moving it lo ns new lccation. Since the nipa huts are now being reoraceo by concrete nouses . me tradition is slowly disappearing.

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Draskovic Hana

Olga Lazarevic

Stanislava Predojevic

Serbia/Montenegro

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Self Sutficient is a concept in whícn tne world is perceived under its very real límüetion 01 resources and then transformad lo in order absorb mese resources; this thoughl reecs us lO the quesl ioning of our ecncns and tnetr respective implications in the future.
Through this lhoughl procesa: building becomes en act 01 greeter transcendence than the arrival and use of metenet. Construetion thus becomes a far greater challenge and looks to imrnerse itsell in the roots 01 those rescurcee that are readily available in order to create a sustainable vision of the product that does not end with the citizen inhabiting and owning tne newly created spece.
This project portrays constructions a cycre . lt utilizas prod ucts that are thought of in a greater scele than what thair immediate use will be, products creeted under peremerers that eneure a productive lile alter thay are installed and would be ready Ior rehebññeticn. The denial iI rasidue arterial tnua beccmes a catalyst lor me metenere exposed on me project to be inhabitable producto rne project envísícns sustainability as the ecveocee atete 01 erctmectcre. conetructron, eccrety end like ‘It esposes that eelt sufficient is not ectueved through a ‘ green’ house rnade in a secluded beach;” but that it Ihrives aOO becomes real when Ihe concept is portrayad end cerned oul in a whole city which in retcm becomes e sustaineble ene in every espect of ñe existence.1t is a city model which mUlates continuously because 01 its ob”i;¡ned or created resources : , It is a project which on a local scala calls for the construction ofurban ecosystems and promotes a futuristic society.

Arroyo Pagan Edgardo

PuertoRico

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While the United States has long been a destination for immigrants seeking better job opportunities , many new immigrants are not given the opportunity to live the American dream. The ironic truth is that while more t han one t h i rd of t he es t imated
20 million immigrants from Mexico and Latin America acquire jobs in the construction and manufacturing industries, less than half will ever be able to af ford to own t hei r own home. The Pollen House attempts to change this bycreating an industry of premanufactured
structural panel s t hat could be easilymassembled on site by these new immigrants .Each house would be customized by the
potential family by adjusting parameters such as desired square footage, and number of levels and parametrically modified to respond to variations in site. The panels would then be formed and issued to the client on site, along with a set of instructions . Using only a few common tools , these panels could be as sembled by the family as easy as a piece of furniture from Ikea. The interior can then be built out following a protocol of jointery to meet the programmatic divisions of the house.

Ryan Lee Keerns , Kristen Smith

United States

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Project is located on the outskirts of Bratislava, capital city of Slovakia - one of the post-communist countries in central Europe. The project explores the possibilities of grafting a small sustainable community into one of the garden colonies. Garden colonies were the communists concept of leisure, often attended with problematic soil conditions, water contamination and air pollution due to hard industry factories neighboring these areas. The project responds to the existing conditions and tries to reactivate these fringe areas by inserting a hybrid typologies. The notion of project consists of two interlocking parts : the house and the greenhouse. Housing types appropriate the form of geologic fault models, as if they were some sort of architectural ready-made. While the forms deal with geology and soil strata, the greenhouses explore the hydroponic and aeroponic techniques of growing plants without the use of soil. Project examines the double potential and different application of construction materials such as thermal insulation, which can be used not only for insulating the walls, but also as a growing substratum in the hydroponics drip irrigation technique. The hydroponic system, supplied with water from retention and filtration of rain water and operated by computer, can provide crop and create a greenhouse effect for the living space below. This space, founded on a space-frame anchored to the concrete slabs, uses the passive heating elements such as heat absorbing materials in the floor wall and ceiling.

Lukac, Martin

Slovakia

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Taking as an example the recently floods in south asia we decided to make a project for a slum community located on the banks of sabarmati river in central ahmedabad, where there are regular floods. We centralized for the sunday market community, placed on the border between the future developed area and the left-overs of what used to be a natural environment and now is taken by the slums. Su market is historically a place for meetings and social activities, not only for the slum community. Now it is located in an area which is polluted and empty during the week and become alive on sundays. We propose an artificial and natural overlapping. We redefined the sense of su market by creating a kind of mixture of market, housing and landscaping. The area would be also a `research village` where the community could be informed how to built the houses by themselves. The basic feature of the project is the use of available resources such as things which lost their primary utility and in our project they just start to live. Reused plastic barrel, containers, palletes, etc., combined with natural materials such as bamboo. The houses are oriented from su market to the semi-private bamboo garden. Each housing unit is formed by three parts: plastic structure (shop, work-shop, living), bamboo structure (living) and bamboo garden (source of a raw material for construction of the bamboo units). The plastic structure consists of joined barrels and stacked palletes. Some of the barrels also work as water collectors. All plastic structure is covered by plastic sheets. The bamboo structure consists of tied raw bamboo sticks and acts like natural `refrigerator`, bringing fresh air into the house. This two parts are covered by textile and plastic fabrics which provide sun protection and create more intimacy.

Malaga, Peter
Stella Boechat Cordeiro

Slovakia

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Meryem Ozturkoglu

Turkey

Over two thousand villages are attacked and destroyed in Darfur.

Adobe brick making is a simple technology and a solution: all one really requires is dirt, water, and a hole in the ground to mix. If you want to understand the consistency of the mix you can make a small ball in your hands and throw down the ball when it doesn’t fall to pieces your consistency of the mix is enough to make adobe bricks. In this project 9×26x12cm adobe bricks are used. The mix is left at least one day to be ready for the bricks. After that the mix is poured in to the wooden tablets. When the bricks are started to be solidify the wooden tablets are taken over the bricks. After that the bricks are left under sunlight to be ready for making the house. In case of making the foundation of the adobe house we can use some stones and cement. About 45 cm foundation will be enough for the house.

Emre Can Yılmaz

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We suggest that exis ing floating houses are replaced with short Iived ephemeral structures, that are mainly build out of recycied element swhich are produces on the island.The users assemble their own new floating houses on one of the potenti al positions out of the elements that are provided by the community center / “Mothership”. AII elements, beside solar panels and inflatab le pontoons have very Iimited expiration date. The platform and wall panels are made out of mixture of recycied paper and organic glue, and are 5 or 15 cm thick. After they are installed and exposed to moisture, they are useable for a period of approximately 7 days.Expiration date of proposed floating house, matches the average time its users spend on the island during a single visit (2 - 10 days), aII th e th ings th at are needed to assemble th e floating house and to Iive th ere for a short period of tim e, are prepared, produced and recycied in the “Mothership”.The production of electrical energy is realized in 3 possible ways:
1. harvesting the river stream power
2. using the solar energy
3. recycling biological waste

Damianov Nikola

SerbiaMontenegro

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“Today, industrialists all over the world are reviewing what they have done,”
We use bessao’s building construccon te chmque te créete verneculer- dwelling ano adapting te environmental resources and abuces in the oesert,We use ancient technque of constrvcton methods ano meterials te obtain new dese-e dwelling arctutectur-el tectmqoe ano using of IEARTH SHELTREOBUILDING) That can oro-note inteq retinn between the houses and hard climatic conocons in t he deserta. and cr éete t remed local inhabitants te rnake their own meteríais ano build the eir own buildings.

[Agricultural reclamation regions]
To be the site of study and design ideas. That is the best region s to organ izing new agr icult ural communities depending of self-suffic ient housing and energy resource s.ln other wise the re are some reclamation deserts lands suffer from th e danger of (Ground MINES] which deposits from th e (World WAR n].So tha t we suggest th e concept of (Green Mine s community] te be the symbol of development idea.However . t here are many sampl es of the se agric ult ural deaert regi ons in count ries Iike ( Saudi Arabia - Egypt - Israel - Qatar we studies t his sample s and we approach Urban and arc hitectura l community idea Green Mines community [G Mines]

El-Soudany Moamen Mahmoud
Egypt

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Build your “agri- architecture” ,which has a terrace field on it’s skin!
• Living in the “agri-architecture”,former farmers can plant crops on their own house, which could also be a great sightseeing and picnic location for the citizens living in the skyscrapers. Therefore, beside feeding themselves, farms can also gain extra income from the house.
• healthy and fresh strawberry prices has risen to 1D-18RMB per unit, which is much higher than rices or wheat.
This self-sufficient system uses natural energy.The system consists of a handiwork-solarshower, a marsh-gas-systern ,which give outfrom human andanimal waste, produces clean energy lor the family, and a rool lor eolleeting raindrops, whieh can be used to irrigate erops and elean the tollet.

Li Xin

China

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Re-defining urban density
The urban density causes critical sustainability problems, for example, lack of new construction field to cover over population, demolition of native green field and covered by asphalt pavements, and human waste goes to landfill and contaminates earth. In the case of NYC, especially Manhattan shows these problems since this city is one of the densest cities. The building are aligned next to each other since the land is extreme valuable to design extra space for any other
functions and low-rise buildings. However, those vertical developments create the odd void condition between buildings, because of different height of each building.
This design proposal is to focus on the vertical void condition to create self-sufficient housings to take the advantage of being highly developed city.
Living structures form in specific ways to achieve maximum strength in order to survive. These formations are minimal, ecological and sustainable. The key to creating complex patterns, the system of monogenous, can be found in these formations. The bubble diagram shows a clear transformation of units according to the articulating rule as well as the complexity created by a single unit. Each cells, representing residential uints are organized by means of bubble structure configuration.

Nagatomo Daisuke

Minnie Jan

United States

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Between component and composite

Each single, planar piece is cycled to compose a structural system of enclosure.
A pallet structural system allows a range of diverse in-fill materials. A light-weight
tensile membrane envelopes or a compressive earthen material fills in a pallet system.
ENERGY & WATER - solar panels collect, convert, and distribute energy to an interior battery
for storage. Rain water is _ltered before pumped to a faucet and shower head. Water from
the sink is _ltered and _ows into the toilet; water from the shower is _ltered and used for
irrigation. Black water and solid residues are collected in a container below the _oor surface
and are disposed through access from the exterior.
KITCHEN / BATHROOM - the kitchen and bathroom module shares a cavity wall _lled with
piping, _lters, and vents. Fixtures include stoves and exhaust hood, sink and facet, toilet
and shower head. Cupboards and shelves are within the voids of _xtures and services .
TECHNOLOGY - the technology module stores converted solar energy for interior appliance
connection. The module contains systems such as data storage, computer processing, and
communications. A table folds vertically and locates a station for work and study.
FURNITURE - the furniture module permits a conversion from bed to table, and chairs to stools.
The module is stored in the _oor. Its casing is a _nished _oor surface above a concrete slab.
PALLET STRUCTURAL SYSTEM - the pallet structural system measures one meter by one meter.
Twenty pallets are needed in order to self construct a dwelling. In plan, pallets can be added
in all directions including up. The pallet structural system is one component combined with
four modules, an in_ll material, and a foundation

Maui Madrigal

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// [COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE] [networking] [sharing]
[library] [p2p]
Our dwelling design connects with others locally, regionally, and globally through a peer-to-peer network to share and obtain information needed to optimize its configuration. This could happen automatically, and may need no attention from the inhabitant. Houses become aware of themselves in relation to the world and to other structures via GPS, which can also aid in urban planning analysis. Buildings collaborate to form whole neighborhoods, or even cities that create effective vehicle/pedestrian circulation, quality outdoor space, and community environments. And structures will alert others in different areas of the world of major environmental changes, thereby allowing enough time to optimize before extreme conditions reach those dwellings.
// [NANOBOT] [background] [bottom up]
Polycarbonate Nanobots are smaller than a blood cell, lighter than air, and have a single microprocessor, which sends electrical pulses. These pulses send signals to the nanotubes, which grab onto another nanobot’s nanotubes to join the network and transfer information. They self-replicate by pulling carbon molecules off of carbon dioxide molecules, and creating parts for a new nanobot – a process which happens in a matter of milliseconds. Much like a factory, certain ones would create specific pieces to collectively build a new one. This “factory” would be set up by linking certain series’ of nanobots to others, much like DNA.
// [CONTROL] [limits] [assembly] [structure]
The user receives what appears to be a solid object made up of trillions of nanobots. The “object” is hooked up wirelessly to a computer where it receives its instructions from the program. Building codes and regulations are set in the database as limits, which mandate some rules. These limits are set by “the regulators” also known as architects, engineers, and scientists to ensure the development of a healthy infrastructure to the city, prevent the nanobots from running out of control, and deter the general greed of the user. Each individual nanobot finds its exact coordinates for that place and time through a GPS. Once the limits are placed and position is located, the box is linked up to the network where its information is fed into the database and the shape of the house is calculated. As the building grows, each nanobot will self-replicate more nanobots

Jason Pierce
Jon Bailey
Bennett Bossert
Dustin Headley
Tzu-Ching Lai
Kathryn Marinaro
Kyle Perry
Tom Poore
Joshua Vermillion
Kaitlin White
Shai Yeshayahu

United States

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Konstanty Stajniak

Aleksander Oniszh

Krzysztof Lagutko

Krzysztof Gornicki

Poland

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The site proposed for the realization of this self housing can be any forest. Ecosystem, it is shelters of million ground lives Theater of numerous natural constructions and varied in their quantity as in their quality, it seemed natural to propose an auto-constructed house fitting into such an environment middle. Natural shades, protections in wind and in rains, trees are these multitudes lungs necessary for the ground life Their more or less cowardly disposal allows to fit out naturally places of life. While observing the nature which we learn: Ants, little terrestrials, the spider, majestic tightrope walker, are the most visible sorts by the construction of their domain of life.
Workers, been looked after, these sorts know how to take advantage of their environment to remain by building such of the architects.The monOhouse wants to be the meeting of these two cultures of environment. Its architecture does not wish to produce of object but to give a sense to the construction and to melt it as much as possible in its environment: work between the nature and the constructed.

Chrystel Charrat

France

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Context
24.5 Million members of the the global population fall under the category of IDP — internally displaced peoples. This disturbing figure is only a fraction of those who do not have access to the the most basic life-sustaining amenities. The dispair caused by these conditions often fuel ongoing violence, as is the case in Sri Lanka, which has been locked in a bloody civil war for the last 24 years, resulting in 600,000 conflict IDPs in the previous year alone. The local infrastructure, weakened by the war, has been unable to provide or distribute a permanent housing solution for IDPs or calm political tensions. Providing access to global systems as well as natural resources will allow communities to grow independently from the state.

Handy Katie Danielle

Dinesh Perera

United States

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Intending to look at housing not as a problem for, but as a generator of a sustainable urban environment, we introduced concepts and techniques for harvesting natural resources like rainwater, solar - and wind energy. These techniques ultimately start to shape the building proposals and its redefined urban development. At the same time, an avoided and sometimes frightening public space is being reformulated. Thinking of a society that is defined by continuous changes and collectively challenged to control its urban living environment, the proposals introduce living concepts such as ‘work & live’, the ‘generational house’, the ‘growing house’ and other typologies that can adapt to individual and collective life styles(another way of looking at sustainability).

The design proposals are images for a theory of change. Obviously, a realizationof those would require more than what is usually included in the architects’portfolio. Some of the necessities might be a local or international infrastructure of financing that would see the potential of social housing as a motor for urban renovation. Until such mechanisms are installed (by the means of either local economy, private partner- or sponsorship, state responsibility, tax policy, international loans or subsidies), the task is to create visions for action.

Oliver Schuette,

Marije van Lidth de Jeude, Quirine Eijkman, Oscar Abarca Cartin, Sebastian Koch, Sarah Niesert (A company)

Bill Price, Scott Mc Ghee, Catarina Canas (Bill Price Inc.)

Watkins Hamilton Ross, Tim Derrington, Marquisha Emory, David Hopper, Dimitri Karavias, Sophia Malik, Chris Shem, Ben Silewicz, Cedric Spears (University of Houston)

Gerardo Madrigal, Patricia Mauricio, Ninette Morales, Marian Perez, Francisco Rodas, Miriam Soza, Irene Torres (FLACSO)

Mauricio Vega Ramirez (Municipality of San Jose)

Karin Anema (i3m2r)

CostaRica

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Rather than an experimental prototype that may not prove popular in the housing market, this project proposes a realistic mechanism and process for the creation of a large-scale suburban development in which houses are built or developed by the residents themselves, as opposed to developers or architects. A consideration of the social, political, and economic conditions for the adoption of self build as a mainstream alternative, and the implications such changes might have, suggests that independence from volume housebuilders and large energy corporations must be combined with local collaboration and negotiation. To briefly summarise the structure; the land development trust is initially a partnership to create a housing related social enterprise. Residents become part of the trust as they buy plots, and have a say in how it is run. The trust has a long-term stake in the area, as it retains the freehold of the land, and collects annual ground rents, which increase as the area matures. These go towards maintaining roads and trees, and running local initiatives such as car pools.
Smaller groups of residents manage their respective commonhold gardens and their boundaries. The right to develop a plot comes with certain legal covenants intended to prevent amateur developers from build-to-let or build-to-sell, and encourage unique houses for long-term residents. However there are no restrictions on the style or method each household uses to build. The existing building methods available to households have been analysed. Certain organisational innovations in the construction industry could bring together some of the practical advantages of prefabrication, and streamlined management, without losing the uniqueness and individuality possible with self-build. A software tool (scripted as part of this project) generates a range of options based on the household’s individual profile. Architects can advise on best choice. This method could be semi-automated to direct any digitally custom fabricated system, such as structural insulated panels, offering speed, flexibility and impressive thermal properties. Another piece of software allows residents to be part of making the local layout by claiming and sharing their own plots. Residents are obliged to interact with each other from the outset, in the hope of limiting social atomisation and selfishness. Urban detailing addresses the architectural qualities of these moments of negotiation. A negotiated house

Kerimol Levent

United Kingdom

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Maui Madrigal

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For man kind house is a filter between the world and their soul. This house has been developed to create a spiritual space as a part of its infrastructure. To do so we proposed an additional room to isolate a person from his or
her environment, we call it the sanctuary of inner man, a space for meditation to find a high level of conscience perhaps and probably appreciation of his or her ecosystem in another hand could be see it as additional function that is questioning our way of living. This house is a prototype of a’ l ow-cost-dwe l l i n g ” , which could be built anywhere in a tropical weather, its bamboo structure is resistant to earthquakes. its value in South America is around 6.000 euros. Lake Calima is one of thelargest artificial lakes in Colombia, build in 1961 and occupying an area of 70 kl . The Malagana Indian culture has existed 1900 years ago in this region. Their vision about dwelling is unit  with the cosmos.

Juan Manuel Figueroa, Javier Gomez

Colombia

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We begin with the primitive idea of refuge, where it had the function of offering protection from natural phenomena. From the beginning of humanity, the population has been changing its habits and it relationship with environment, passing gradually from nomadism to a sedentary way of life. Nomadic population moved in the territory in search of natural resources that satisfied their consumption needs, and then they returned to move to another part in search of the same. The proposal comes from the idea of generating possibilities for the establishment of this kind of nomadic population. It consists in the degree ofadaptation to the different not adverse geographic situations with the minimum possible environmental impact. It is a basic house, self-contained and self-sufficient that is based on the land with no need to modify it. The house lays down on the land by means of an hydraulic system. This system is made of a series of hydraulic action telescopic supports which adapt to the land situation in an automatic way. Finished this stage, the self-contained house unfolds in itself to give place to all the rooms. It is proposed a closing composed by polymer layers to which air is injected to make it harder and to give it an air thickness between the layers. These layers improve the thermal behaviour of the house as a whole. By means of this device, bedroom and living-room are defined. The house is complemented with the integration of a photovoltaic panel system located on the cover, which assures a basic energy supply for the operation of the electric elements defined by the user.

Claudio Marcelo Rodriguez Sanchez, Javier Eduardo Borgno Martin

Uruguay

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On the Outskirts of Kampala city, lies Kinawata slums - a spread of shacks, shanties, shelters and a few brick houses. The Unique characteristics about this site are:
- Intimate organic density of the units that create inbetween YARDS
- the YARD is a 3rd layer of connectivity
- the YARD is a functional space, enjoyed by all age groups.
The units have developed organically, depending on the needs of the residents - from housing a new family member in a new room to set up the shelter for a small business.
To facilitate this vibrant community its dynamic livelihoods, the design proposes a house that can grow / evolve, according to the dwellers’ needs To aid this organic growth, data/info is imprinted on to the house enclosures. The dweller can then read and interpret this data, then be able to modify the house. This DWELLER - HOUSE interaction turns the house into a living building that can evolve and change…

Amara Andrew

Uganda

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STRATEGY AND LOGICS
Ecology is the study of the relationship between organisms and their environment. This definition also suits the discipline of architecture surprisingly well: in our view one of the central tasks of architecture is to provide opportunities for habitation through specific material and energetic interventions in the physical environment. Techno-ecologies explore behaviour and logics in nature and the technological implementation as mechanism to generate a self-sufficient housing. The proposal studies the cactus morphology as organism able
to resist extreme weather condition as an autonomous and self-sufficient entity.
Also the project distinguishes two levels of information: the general conditions (geometry, behaviour, energy…) and the local adaptations in terms of environmental parameters (lighting, thermal radiation, insulation, wind…) The interaction of both levels of information establishes the strategy of the proposal generation a set of possible variations.

Ballesteros Simón Iván

Elena García Pérez

Spain

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Luis Torres

United States

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Andy Vann

United States

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Pineiro Garcia Ana

Spain

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“UNDER5KYTRAIN HOU5E” is the concept house that link t he communication, the living, enviroment and a limit space of a city. When, there is transportation expansion will have amount expansión of the residence follows. The house that link with the rail skytrain stucture, It must have compact size. Thus that house must have the ability that can change and adjust with itself for living in the Iimitative area. In Thailand has three seasons (summer,rainy, winter ) which the seasons are the important fact or for the lining of Thai people. The house at the two beside of under sky train rail, It has a main structure with the structure of rail sky train . A stairs tor up to the house, lt adjoin a collumn of the raíl structure. The unit of the house has link with the corridor under the house.

Suebsai Jittakasem

Thailand

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Kyle Sanders Caldwell

United States

Concepts of Self Sufficiency must embrace an integrated approach of social and environmental concerns. True sustainability will not come from a solely introverted expeditions, but will arise from social cohesion and unity. Architecturally, we must strive to engage humanity and the environment together as one. The Muscle + Bones Flexible House embraces the concept of an interconnected economy that excels with integration. The Flexible House exists as a relative discussion-point in the urbanized landscape. Situated in the urban context, Muscle + Bones is allowed to simultaneously respond both to climatic changes as well as daily shifts in social interaction, mediating the degree of privacy and public involvement.

The Muscle+ Bones Panel integrates simple tension based mechanical technology with pattern-based overlapping and layering. The system strives to be as integrated as possible, allowing a cohesion of environmental, social, structural, and automated aspects. The automatic fabrication sequence gives way to automated site and user specific adaptation habits. While the tension system continues to move the panels, they also remain to give structural support.

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Ashley Moore

United States

Netbrix is a system of data-sharing construction modules. As an individual, each Netbrix contains the capability to learn its function, location, and orientation with regard to all other Netbrix in a structure. Communicating with built-in WiFi adapters, the Netbrix - which may be transparent, opaque, photo voltaic – are able to record and share information such as energy efficiency, global positioning, vertical and horizontal organization. As a structure is built, the network between the Netbrix builds the corresponding digital map of the structure. Thus, the construction documents are drawn in the real time it takes to put together the house or building.

These construction documents are instantaneously shared across the planet via peer-to-peer networks. Any user wishing to build with Netbrix will have access to a digital repository of every Netbrix structure that has been built up to that very minute. The designs of Netbrix buildings are released under a Creative Commons license; any user may take a design and duplicate, alter, merge, hybridize it as he or she sees fit – and their new design is subsequently released.

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