Implementation of Interactive technologies in ecological architecture

Abstract

Global warming and large-scale pollution have affected our planet for centuries. We acknowledged it for decades, the world now is fighting against itself in an attempt to provide a better future for the next generations, the buildings sector is one of the significant contributors to the problem is also one of the biggest organisms that are willing to change, and we can see this through the number of new boards for controlling the environmental quality in each country and the new architectural movements that preach environmental conservation in their core philosophy one of which is parametricism 2.0, it emphasizes the research-based best practices in architecture and one of its primary goals are to use environmental engineering to enhance the strategies used in the buildings complementing systems interactively. The strategies chosen to work within this philosophy are kinetic systems using EAP’s to form fluid forms that can change its curvature angle leveraging the materials physical properties of extension and retraction when exposed to electrical current to generate openings on the building surface when airflow is needed and Morphing materials using ECM’s to cover the external shell of the building in order to control the color which in its turn manipulates the heart rate flow coming from the solar rays impacting on the surface by leveraging the chemical properties of the material when introduced to an electrical current too. These theories were tested in the academic architectural project accompanying this paper by running environmental simulations. At the same time, the strategies are active and inactive. Then the results are compared to see the impact it has on the energy conception, the results were satisfactory and within the margin that justifies the usage of complex and sensitive systems but extensive more profound research is yet to be done to determine the real extents of these strategies in the real world and what other implementations that they might have.