Architecture-Instrument: The Architecture-Machine Origins and Frameworks of Machinic Line of Thinking in Architecture

Exo Case-Study and Prototype of the Dynamic Responsive Architectural System: The Key Attributes of Systemic Integration and Design – Part I

“…This section will examine how Exo architectural case-study, experiment, prototype, and pilot project have accomplished and proved the claims of the artistic-scientific convergence, a new spatial format, and attributes of the architectural responsive and programmable system. Even though the system had very limited prospects considering the technological requirements and full application of all attributes in given conditions 2 , the text will follow the experiment's initial proposal, or an ideal condition and action plan. Having been methodologically distinguished as a single case-study, conducted to provide arguments through information collection, recording, and explanation of its design process, course of development and operation, Exo and here explored systems have been crossed with other case studies and contextualized within the broader theoretical and practical research in this area, so as to come up with the universal set of attributes that characterize specific classes of architectural objects.…”

“…Protocols determine the object's behavior over the short term on a task-by-task or mode-by-mode basis (referring to changes of the performance programs), and over the long term on the basis of the system's constant operation within the same mode -given the same performance task, but including the possibility of performance improvement within the scope of the task itself. Looking from the perspective of machinic architectural integration, as previous studies have indicated [2], it can be stated that machines, machine properties and machine elements of architectural spatial designs or environments play an important role in building specific types and forms of performative spaces. This refers to architecture-instruments, as well.…”

“…In this respect, different meanings of the term machine, or architecture-machine (mechanical, electronic, digital, vision, chemical and biochemical, etc. [2,5]), in both hard and soft registers, have been mobilized to explain such sentient spatial upgrade and reinvention.…”

“…The Key Attributes of Systemic Integration and Design -Part I epistemological question of its machine-origins and relations to machinic genealogy and application in architecture [2], deriving the proposed format of the architecture-instrument from the investigated context. The third elaborated on artistic-scientific and wider disciplinary convergences, targeting thereby methodological instances that could be experimented with, confirmed or refuted through design and fabrication process [3,4], while underlining the instrument's soft cognitive component -the algorithmic logic of operation and system's programmability [4].…”