{"title":"Thermal Worlds: Redefining Spatial Thresholds With Temperature in the Geothermal Landscape","authors":"Catherine De Almeida","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.105.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.105.14","url":null,"abstract":"Space is typically demarcated by its physical boundaries. The solidity of wall, ceiling and floor define architectural interiors. Space in the landscape, though structurally similar, is bounded by larger-scale material conditions, such as tree canopies, horizon, sky, and ground. How can architectural space be defined without architectural materials? As a proposal for the use of temperature as a space-making material for design, this design research project draws from philosophy and phenomenology to understand the body as an instrument for sensory experience. Architectural case studies are used to redefine the notion of physical, visually perceived space and ways intangible experiences are at the forefront of a design. It investigates how the manipulation of geothermal water can unlock the performative, ephemeral, and experiential characteristics of temperature as a material for redefining spatial thresholds within the geothermal landscape of Iceland.","PeriodicalId":122603,"journal":{"name":"Brooklyn Says, \"Move to Detroit\"","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134598279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Responsive System: A Prototype for Building Performance","authors":"Ming Hu","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.105.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.105.9","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on developing a prototype of a responsive system with interactive solutions for dynamic environments. The aim of this project is to develop a self-sustained interactive component. First, a conceptual framework of integrating sensors and actuators into a building is set up and tested to achieve an environmentally sensible responsive system. Then operational scenario has been investigated and a prototype has been tested as well. Lastly, the potential implication of the prototyping is discussed.","PeriodicalId":122603,"journal":{"name":"Brooklyn Says, \"Move to Detroit\"","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125285694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robots, Cyborgs, and Architecture","authors":"R. Dickey","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.105.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.105.77","url":null,"abstract":"This paper seeks to examine the robot cyborg paradigm in relation to architecture and artificial intelligence.It asks, what knowledge might arise from the cross disciplinary study of the historical narrative of the robot and cyborg? Referencing the birth of the robot and cyborg and exploring their significance from past to present, this paper strives to point out how these figures could help us question the status quo or reveal something to us about the world. Through the suggestion of a collective non-human form of intelligence in architecture we can ask, what might the machine have to offer that we haven’t considered or weren’t even capable of considering? How might machines actively collaborate in the design process?How might our relationship with technology enhance our creative capacities? The response to these questions begins with a comparative investigation of approaches to architecture and AI.","PeriodicalId":122603,"journal":{"name":"Brooklyn Says, \"Move to Detroit\"","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126436881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Politicization of a Private Infrastructure: Hong Kong’s Pedestrian Bridge Network","authors":"Jennifer Lee Michaliszyn","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.105.74","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.105.74","url":null,"abstract":"The 2014 “Umbrella Protest’ and 2011-12 Occupy Central demonstrations in Hong Kong were sited along and under segments of the city’s well-known pedestrian bridge infrastructure. The walkways are often cited by critics as examples of a public realm compromised by private management and surveillance. But these recent events compel a reexamination of the bridge network, and whether these privatized connectors, through their appropriation as spaces of informal and unsanctioned activity, have evolved into a supporting armature for dissent and a kind of ‘infrastructure of inclusion’.","PeriodicalId":122603,"journal":{"name":"Brooklyn Says, \"Move to Detroit\"","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133250361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Designed “Public Spaces” in Solidere’s Beirut City Center","authors":"Garine Boghossian","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.105.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.105.72","url":null,"abstract":"In the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War, a private company Solidere took on the mission to reconstruct the center of Beirut, the capital city. An enormous real-estate privatization process transformed the once historic city center to a shiny upscale district. The paper investigates the different public spaces within it and reveals the design politics behind them.","PeriodicalId":122603,"journal":{"name":"Brooklyn Says, \"Move to Detroit\"","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130787349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stranger than Fiction: Artificial Intelligence, Media, and the Domestic Realm","authors":"Galo Canizares","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.105.76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.105.76","url":null,"abstract":"Alan Kay’s famous soundbite from a 1971 Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) meeting presents a bizarre chicken and egg paradox. It goes like this: which came first, the science fiction representation of the objector the desire for specific objects themselves? In other words, is the plethora of technological advancements a direct result of anthropomorphic inevitabilities or are we simply trying to realize objects, vehicles, and environments we saw in science fiction representations in the mid-twentieth century? In this paper, I will argue that media and literature are equally as responsible as engineering for our current architectural reality. With the rise of Web 2.0, advances in graphics visualization, and their attendant cultural shifts, aspects of contemporary urban life increasingly resemble a science fiction. The pervasiveness of app culture and recent factual and fictional examples of artificial intelligence augmenting the built environment suggest that engineering advancements exist as part of a tight feedback loop between consumer expectations—largely influenced by Hollywood—and scientific discoveries. Therefore, in order to fully understand, historicise, or speculate on the future of interactions between humans and machines, we must first unpack the cycle of fiction-to-fact that typically occurs. Taking the domestic realm as an example, we can identify a series of uncanny, artificially intelligent, technologies which reflect human desires for subservience, assistance, and interconnectedness. Here, AI will serve as a case study through which to analyze the effect of fiction on scientific advancements and their subsequent dissemination into the consumer world, ultimately constituting a history based less on fact and more on media, image, and variable levels of reality.","PeriodicalId":122603,"journal":{"name":"Brooklyn Says, \"Move to Detroit\"","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124101006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"128th Street Harlem: An Open Approach to Social inclusion","authors":"Ana Morcillo Pallares","doi":"10.35483/acsa.am.105.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.105.71","url":null,"abstract":"During the 1960s in New York City, the urgency of a solution to urban congestion was reflected in a sociopolitical proposal which launched a new concept for the generation and maintenance of new collective space. The proposal promoted a focus on small scale interventions and the recycling of abandoned lots throughout the city. The result was revolutionary asa formula of improving the inclusion of social diverse spaces and reducing the plague of poverty and pollution suffered by entire neighborhoods. Politicians, members of the Park Association of the city, architects, planners and philanthropists decided to focus on new ideas to deploy on one street which became an experimental field for new open space: 128th on Harlem.","PeriodicalId":122603,"journal":{"name":"Brooklyn Says, \"Move to Detroit\"","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116693680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}