Performative Landscapes

Performative Landscapes

Van Hoek, L.

Bier, H. (mentor)
Biloria, N. (mentor)
Sobota, M. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Hyperbody

Non-Standard & Interactive Architecture

2013-11-04

Where most buildings consist of mass produced elements in the global market, they miss the aspect of site specificity that allows for optimization based on context. This design of a research lab is an attempt to translate physical systems and programmatic requirements into architectural form to make the architecture more informed. The result is a building that is able to reduce use of external resources like fossil fuels. The active skin is clad with photovoltaic cells, piezoelectric wind pads and openings in the surfaces to collect rainwater. These collected resources will be distributed throughout an integrated network of ducts which are spread through the building. The ducts will feed the resource functions from all desired sides, in order to achieve individual control of the local conditions as climate and light requirements. The developed system is a closed loop of constant renewal, generation, usage and conservation of resources, all expressed throughout the whole building. Since the building takes part in the dynamic energy and water harvesting cycle, the design reduces the need for external resources, where the climate change is demanding for. The active and optimized shapes enhance resource extraction and provide researchers an optimized infrastructure where their research can be attached to.

Performance Driven Design

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ddd49dcd-4f94-41f8-82ec-c57619a311bb

2013-11-04

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2013 Van Hoek, L.