ABSTRACT

THE WORD ADAPTIVE implies movement, transition, responsiveness, and ‘smart

material’: a latent capacity of some kind, which suggests that in the context of

Adaptive Technologies and Smart Materials we might consider the effect of con-

ceiving form in terms of force (a product of time and movement); a capacity

which suddenly seems prevalent in architecture under the general infl uence of

animation software used in a generative manner. For the potential this offers

is as much as anything the means of simulating the physical effects of force

and time in a creative environment. Earth moves, as it’s been said: origin,

even, as concept, displaced by the notion of transformation . . .2