MOVE: Architecture in Motion - Dynamic Components and Elements

Architects and engineers are engaging more and more with the issue of movement in architecture: How can we control and reduce the energy requirement of buildings? How can we expand the range of possible uses? And how can we represent, accommodate, and control dynamic movements in buildings?

Table of Contents:
A Theory and planning Movement in space and the movement of objects Exploring space - Creating space - Dancing space The dynamics of nature Motion in photography and film Robots and space Movement and construction principles The principles of designing movement The principles of mechanics Scale and complexity of systems Typologies of movement Choosing materials High-strenght and flexible materials Movable load-bearing structures Movable connections Actuators Measuring, controlling, regulating Planning guidelines and legal frameworks Future movement strategies Harnessing the changing state of matter Changing colours, forms and properties Smart Structures Growth B Applications and functions Changing and extending uses and functions Variable walls Variable room elements Opening the building envelope Mobile and movable building envelopes Conserving and generating energy Architecture, movement and energy The principle of efficiency Solar gain in context Factor 1.4 - The potential of movement for solar gain Daylight direction using moving deflectors Interaction: Recognizing, controlling and representing movement Elevators and conveyors Recognizing and representing movement C Buildings and building elements - Case studies Swivel Rotate Flap Slide Fold Expand and contract Gather.

About the Author :
Michael Schumacher is a professor of design and construction at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences at Leibniz Universitat Hannover (University of Hanover); for more than twenty years, he has been a co-owner of the firm schneider + schumacher. Oliver Schaeffer studied at the TU Munchen (Technical University of Munich) and MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). He has worked at Michael Hopkins in London as well as at other firms and is presently a research associate at the Institut fur Entwerfen und Konstruieren (Institute of Design and Construction) in Hanover. Michael-Marcus Vogt is also a research associate at that institute and does research on dynamic materials and applications technologies for adaptive facade systems.