ABSTRACT
Lack of interconnectivity, rising information overload, and painful architectural technologies all contribute to why designers must take architecture to the next level. By resolving such issues in using sensory design together with adaptive architecture, information can go from being an overwhelming problem, to being a part of the solution. With information, adaptive architecture uses its improved technologies to enhance its sensemaking abilities for the good of occupants. One of the key goals of sensemaking architecture is to make the intangible perceptible. Within a space, one can integrate ambient information displays that contribute to a location's culture. The data perceived in such environments takes on a new role as information is exchanged between external and internal systems. Such information displays elicit behavioral patterns for groups of people to experience. Architecture is gaining greater opportunity to target how, when, and where information is perceived.
