ABSTRACT
Architects must change the way they practice in order to play a meaningful role in shaping tomorrow's buildings. They must forget about producing the next boutique building, be it big or small. They must systematize their practice to align every process and outcome with new construction and design technologies driven by performance based automation. Two types of automated systems must be brought together to enable this: automated performance driven design systems and automated, deployable, performance driven control systems. Tristan d’Estrée Sterk, founder of the Office for Robotic Architectural Media & Bureau for Responsive Architecture, discusses a vision for practice enabled by this new approach. He will question the current emphasis that architectural technologists place on the mass customization of ordinary components, and instead show how building performance can be mass customized via increased automation. Behind the scenes examples of current research and work by ORAMBRA will be shown.
