Flexible Architecture

Flexibility and mobility in architecture have undergone tremendous changes due to human progress. Flexible architecture is a space that can be changed and adapted in the face of new conditions. The typology and classification of flexible architecture are vital in understanding this concept. We did this research with an exemplary approach and a descriptive-analytical method, which investigated the typology of flexibility in fifteen technological and contemporary pavilions. The purpose of analyzing the pavilions was to describe the specific characteristics of each to achieve a diagnostic framework in this field. We examined five indicators, and the results were presented in a tabular format to understand better how to categorize this type of architecture. The architecture of pavilions was identified and introduced in five flexible patterns: Adaptive Flexibility, General Flexibility, Deformable Flexibility, Mobile Flexibility, and Responsive Flexibility. The mobilizing should be automatic, self-aware, and completely simple, and it should use uncomplicated technical mechanisms so that we can consider the flexible architecture as fully implemented with all its features.

Mobile architecture and adaptive environments are significant considerations in the realm of architecture. Achieving an environment with adaptable structures is the main focus of the research, encompassing methods from the smallest component to the largest assemblies. The primary objective of this research is to design and construct a mobile and responsive environment capable of selecting and utilizing the appropriate models by collecting environmental data. The research methodology is applied, aiming to develop existing methods by leveraging principles from foundational research. The focal point of the research lies in detailed joint design through regular volumes and exploration of opening and closing possibilities. Two of the most suitable volumes, octahedron, and regular icosahedron, serve as the basis of investigation. This research employs an examination of multimodal geometries and their modeling in Rhino 6 software, feasibility studies using SolidWorks 2021 Service Pack 4 software, environment analysis through Python, and command issuance through the robotics operating system. Findings showed that using octahedral and icosahedron geometries enables the creation of modular structures capable of mobility within the environment and the establishment of a self-structuring system. Moreover, it is feasible to imbue the structure with self-awareness using perceptual and operator units. The designed structure is compact and closed in the octahedral state, with the ability to transform into a twenty-sided configuration from two directions. This transformation drives the structure both backward and forward, facilitating movement. Between the two lateral joints, a static and straightforward hinged structure with minimal movement is positioned, connecting the movable joints and fostering structural integrity.

In the twentieth century, architectural theory has shown difficulties to deal with the sphere of knowledge that is occupied, both in method and content, by so-called architectural anthropology. The emergence of architectural anthropology itself can be understood as an outcome of a conceptual omission in architectural theory as it evolved since the 1960s—this is the central thesis of this paper. To support this thesis, I will, in a first step, recall the historiographical self-understanding of architectural theory; in a second step, I will sketch the early field of architectural anthropological research in order to name forms of differentiation of this field. Finally, I will explain what can be described as the today’s legacy of architectural anthropology: Beyond its occupation with the material culture of popular architecture, it is a field-research practice through which empirical methods have entered into architectural research.

This article researches the innovative cooperative housing project, La Borda, located in Barcelona's Bordeta neighborhood. The building represents a paradigm shift in urban housing, emerging from the community-driven recovery of the Can Batlló industrial site. The project embodies a critique of speculative urban development and offers a sustainable, communal living model as an alternative. Key elements of this study include the occupation of public spaces for collective living, a unique tenure model through housing cooperatives in cession of use, participatory community development, architectural flexibility, sustainable design approaches and strategies.

Bangkok is now an urban sprawl city which causes poor city living conditions. To revolve this, the Creative City is concerned.
The degree of building flexibility is a key to an achievement. In addition, shophouse is a common building type with a
greatly diverse use and flexibility which serve with the concept. The study aims to investigate and compare the flexible factor
related to shophouse adaptation of the residents and architects to improve and increase the shophouse flexibility and diversity.
The flexible factors with the concern of regulations and surrounding are the main framework of the study. Moreover,
“Tolerance”, one of the keys of Creative City, which urges the diversity of people within a community, is the major center of
study. The study method starts with the literature review. Later the surveys are divided into two procedures. The first step is
the 70 questionnaire survey of the existing shophouse residents in 7 districts based on density and demographic data. The
second step is the survey of 35 voluntary and experienced professional Thai architects. The results address Finance and
Installation are the most important. The comfortable construction, which is prefabrication and Support-Infill, is needed to
promote for improving the shophouse flexibility.

Shophouse is one of the majority building types which run along many streets in Bangkok. Nowadays, they are obsolete, resulting
from changing of urban lifestyle, uncontrollable and difficult modification by the shophouse inhabitants. As a result, the old
shophouses are ruined and cause unpleasant appearances to the public. However, there are positive advantages in flexibility and
urban activity diversifying catalyzes. The study, therefore, aims to seek a solution to revitalize shophouse façades for urban
appearances and individual identity expression. This shifts the control over the building appearances from the designers to inhabitants
by facilitating building structure and infill. The study in the shophouses in different density areas in Bangkok reveals their spatial,
common structural, and façade characteristics. Later, applying the concept of Open Building to demonstrate a façade guideline for
habitats is presented. The result can be an example for the revitalization of the shophosues’ facades and for the future shophouses.
Furthermore, it raises awareness of separation of professionals’ and users’ controls in housing design in Thailand.

Performative' is an emerging term in architectural discourse. The word 'performative' is able to describe spatial qualities and design approaches. The term is mostly linked to the concepts of open-form, and flexibility which are characters that give the spatial design a strategic aspect as the ability to anticipate and host predicted and unpredicted occurrences, and to adjust to future changes, which also gives architecture the character of an unfolding 'event' in time and in space. This paper seeks to investigate the terminological and the theoretical dimensions of the term 'performative.'

No presente artigo aborda-se a arquitetura cinética tendo como objetivo focar os conceitos de variação, adaptabilidade e transformação dos espaços em função das necessidades do utilizador, e a possibilidade da arquitetura responder a novos programas funcionais. Analisam-se sistemas cinéticos recentes, utilizados como parte integrante da arquitetura, e discute-se o seu papel na arquitetura assim como a forma como estes permitem interligar-se ao conceito de flexibilidade e responder às novas necessidades de uma sociedade em constante mudança. São apresentadas propostas de carácter cinético para edifícios, com objetivos distintos e formas de flexibilidade variadas que possibilitem diferentes ocupações dos espaços.

Center to propose solutions for the effects of climate change on New York's waterfronts, culminates in an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art from March 24 through October 11, 2010. The exhibition presents architectural proposals that emphasize adaptive-soft‖ infrastructure solutions for New York and New Jersey's Upper Bay to make New York City and surrounding areas more resilient in responding to rising sea levels and more frequent storm surges. Elements of the proposals range from the creation of salt-and freshwater wetlands along the banks of the bay and a Venice-like aqueous landscape, to habitable piers and manmade islands, and a protective reef of living oysters. Five multidisciplinary teams of New York-based architects, engineers, and landscape designers selected to participate in Rising Currents developed the proposals during the initiative's

| Arquitetura de interiores em ambientes para idosos portadores da doença de Alzheimer Resumo O Alzheimer é o tipo de demência mais comum entre os idosos e caracteriza-se por causar declínio progressivo da capacidade cognitiva. Pesquisas recentes demonstram que ambientes projetados especialmente para pessoas com Alzheimer podem compensar suas deficiências e manter suas capacidades remanescentes. Estes estudos têm crescido na Europa e América do Norte, mas no Brasil o potencial do ambiente físico como recurso terapêutico continua sendo um assunto pouco explorado. O presente artigo aborda a importância do ambiente na qualidade de vida dos portadores de Alzheimer, a partir de uma revisão bibliográfica sobre os principais parâmetros da arquitetura de interiores que podem servir como guias para modificações e adaptações em ambientes para essa população.