torino 2010
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| Location | torino, Italy |
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| Introduction | Two main drivers for this workshop: the evolving of digital technologies, and the growing of ecological awareness. Digital technology plays a critical role in acknowledging change and difference in the way we design, build and live architecture. Ecological awareness, on the other hand, requires one to observe and understand the behavioral tendencies of our natural and built systems. The use of parametric design software will enable designers to use design as a regulator of the internal and external environments, managing bioclimatic flows to maintain homeostasis through intelligent morphologies. The workshop program will develop a Physiological Skin, as a mean to capture, transform, store and distribute various energetic flows to maintain a stable internal environment appropriate for housing in the city of Torino. The Physiological Skin will not only take on the bioclimatic exchange as its main design challenge, the aesthetic vision as it situates in the Italian neighborhood, the Renaissance and Baroque, times of new discoveries and new aesthetics, will also be a main criteria for the successful development of the project. |