Mechanical empathy: kinetic architectural textile environments

雕塑家兼建筑师Philip Beesley和机电工程师Robert Gorbet提议在跨学科的创造性工作和研究中进行合作，将数字制造的轻质建筑纺织结构和交互式微处理器技术结合起来。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，密集地分布着可以改变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，将静态建筑的部分转化为活跃的、响应性的表面。相应的伦理目标是为人类居住者与周围环境的相互联系找到敏感的、更新的关系。该项目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造层，同时还有雄心勃勃的专业开发研讨会、研究生研讨会和国际传播。Philip Beesley在剑桥滑铁卢大学从事数字媒体艺术和实验建筑的教学和研究，并获得了罗马建筑奖和众多出版物。工程师Robert Gorbet是创新机电一体化和互动系统方面的专家，也是一位屡获殊荣的教师，在跨学科合作方面拥有丰富的经验。Corbet在先进形状记忆合金执行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类似纺织品的轻质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.