protoSPACE 4

ProtoSPACE 4 is now in the design process, soon to be presented to the Board of the TU Delft,schedueld to be placed between BK City and Delft Science Center, in a park-like setting. ProtoSPACE 4 is intended to become an icon for innovation, as a showpiece for the TU Delft. It will be Hyperbody task to fulfill these self-imposed huge expectations. After the pitfalls of the development of the earlier protoSPACEs, interactive architecture and collaborative design and engineering are bound to acquire their pole position in the international discourse on architecture, hopefully ackowledged for its inevitability in architectural education, research and practice.

ProtoSPACE 4 as a  demonstrator of proactive architecture

A representative part of protoSPACE 4 will made using rapid protyping techniques. Approximately 20 components will be assembled as to form a part of a structural shell. Each component has  embeded functionalities like ventialtion, daylight, interior light, interactive furniture, mobile interaction units [protoCELLs], LED screens, heating / cooling heatexchange units. All functionalities are distributed among the whole enveloping surface, in changing densities. For example a dense group of LED screens will act as the information field, a higher density of interactive furniture will be the hands-on working field. Each swarm of components with  a certain functionalitywill interact with the other swarms. The users, who are known to the protoSPACE intelligence system, are another swarm interacting with the distributed devices. In essence each component has embedded intelligence and communicates information to other components, either directly or via a database. The smart protoSPACE 4 building does not wait for instructions from the users, it will be activily sensing its environment and will be actively retrieving data from other smeart devices, and from relevant websites. ProtoSPACE 4 will act unsollicited. ProtoSPACE 4 as I imagine it will become a demonstrator of proactive architecture.