ABSTRACT
As the external socio-economic, cultural, and technological context changes, so do conceptions of space, shape, and form in architecture. Over the past decade, we have seen an increasing interest in exploring the capacity of built spaces to change, i.e., to respond dynamically and automatically to changes in the external and internal environments and to different patterns of use. The principal idea is that two-way relationships could be established among the spaces, the environment, and the users: the users or the changes in the environment would affect the configuration of space and vice versa; the result is an architecture that self-adjusts to the needs of the users.
