Mechanical empathy: kinetic architectural textile environments

雕塑家兼建筑师菲利普·比斯利和机电工程师罗伯特·戈贝特提议合作建立一个跨学科的创意工作和研究机构，将数字制造的轻型建筑纺织结构和互动微处理器技术整合在一起。这些项目是雕塑、工程和建筑的混合体，专注于创建灵活的结构网络，密集地填充了可以修改环境并与用户互动的机制阵列。总体目标是为建筑环境找到一个新的角色，将静态建筑的一部分转化为活跃的、响应的表面。相应的伦理目标是为人类居住者与他们周围环境的相互联系找到敏感的、新的关系。该计划将制作一系列公共画廊和景观装置以及原型建筑围护结构改装层，并伴随着一系列雄心勃勃的专门开发研讨会、研究生研讨会和国际传播。菲利普·比斯利在剑桥滑铁卢大学从事数字媒体艺术和实验性建筑的教学和研究，并因罗马建筑奖和许多出版物而闻名。工程师罗伯特·戈贝特是创新机电一体化和交互系统方面的专家，也是一位在跨学科合作方面拥有丰富经验的获奖教师。Corbet在先进的形状记忆合金致动器和交互系统方面的专业知识提供的Active1响应功能将直接补充比斯利在数字制造和纺织般的轻量化结构方面的美学成就。

Sculptor and architect Philip Beesley and mechatronics engineer Robert Gorbet propose to collaborate on an interdisciplinary body of creative work and research that integrates digitally-fabricated lightweight architectural textile structures and interactive microprocessor technology. These projects are a hybrid of sculpture, engineering, and architecture that focus on creating flexible structural meshwork densely populated with arrays of mechanisms that can modify the environment and interact with the user. The general objective is to find a new role for architectural environments, transforming portions of static buildings into active, responsive surfaces. A corresponding ethical objective is to find sensitive, renewed relationships for human occupants interconnected with their surrounding environment. The program will produce a series of public gallery and landscape installations and prototype building envelope modification layers accompanied by an ambitious schedule of specialized development workshops, seminars with graduate students, and international dissemination. Philip Beesley practices digital media art and experimental architecture in parallel with his teaching and research at the University of Waterloo in Cambridge, and has been distinguished by the Prix de Rome in Architecture and numerous publications. Engineer Robert Gorbet is an expert in innovative mechatronics and interactive systems and an award-winning teacher with substantial experience in cross-disciplinary collaborations. 'Active1 responsive functions offered by Corbet's expertise in advanced shape-memory alloy actuators and interactive systems will directly complement Beesley's aesthetic achievements in digital fabrication and textile-like lightweight structures.