The influence of human movement on the formation of adaptive architecture

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Decoration and Interior Architecture Department, Faculty of Arts and Design, Pharos University, Egypt

Abstract

Adaptive architecture relates to buildings that are specially 
designed to adapt to their inhabitants and their environments and 
in order to design a biologically adaptive system, we can observe 
how living creatures in nature are constantly adapting to various
external and internal stimuli can be a great source of inspiration. 
The issue is not just how to create a system capable of change but 
also how to look for quality change and determine the incentive 
to adapt. The research deals with the possibilities of transforming 
spaces by using the human body as an active tool, and the 
research aims to design and build an effective dynamic structural 
system that can be applied on an architectural scale and integrate 
them all into creating a new adaptive system that allows us to 
envision a new way to design, build and experiment with 
architecture in a dynamic way. The main objective was to
address the possibility of a mutual transition between the user and
the architectural component so that the architecture can adapt to 
the user, as the user adapts to the architecture. Motivation is the 
desire to engage with the psychological benefits of an
environment that can respond and thus empathize with human 
emotions through its ability to adapt to the user. The adaptive
affiliations of kinematic structures have been discussed in 
architectural research for more than a decade, and these issues 
have proven their effectiveness in the development of kinematic, 
responsive and adaptive structures and their contribution to an
“intelligent architecture”. 

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