Henriette Bier, Associate Professor, Technical University Delft (TUD), Leader Robotic Building (RB), Associate TU Delft Robotics Institute (DRI) and RoboValley
When environments incorporate sensor-actuator mechanisms that enable buildings to interact with their users and surroundings in real-time, their conceptualisation, materialisation, and actuation process requires Design-to-Robotic-Production-Assembly and -Operation (D2RPA&O) methods. These rely on computational strategies that link virtual and physical environments changing fundamentally architectural practice as design becomes process- instead of object-oriented, use of space becomes time- instead of program- or function-based, which implies that architects design increasingly processes, while users operate multiple time-based architectural configurations emerging from the same physical space that may physically or sensorially reconfigure in accordance to environmental and user specific needs.
