Scott will be presenting “A Breathing Building Skin” at the ACADIA 2010 Conference at Cooper Union in New York, taking place October 21st – 24th.
The theme of ACADIA this year is “the changing nature of information & its impact on architectural education, research and practice,” focusing on the flow of information , generative & evolutionary modeling, & digital fabrication.
Scott’s work – which was the core of his MS thesis at the UW’s CBE – is an exploration into the development of a breathing building skin. The driving concepts for this project are the three types of evolutionary adaptation: flexibility, acclimation, and learning. Of particular interest is how these biological concepts relate to architectural design and design computing. Parametric modeling was used throughout the project to study a family of folding geometry to constitute a system of diaphragms as an alternative to the use of fans for distributing volumes of air.
