smart buildings need smart thinking!

Smart Buildingsneed smart thinking…

@thrutl © 2016 studioFAB limited / Paul Fletcher

HOW CAN BUILDINGS EVOLVE TO ANTICIPATE WHAT OCCUPANTS NEED & DESIRE?

Paul Fletcher January 20 2016

what is a smart building?

A smart building is one that does not make its users feel dumb...

...yet as the (construction) industry inexorably digitise existing processes and methods of building design, construction and operation the end result is all too often just that!


Smart Buildings: dumb users

…exaggerated by the insidious industry view of those outside it’s ‘club’ as ‘lay people’?

@thrutl

‘Smart Building’ is very rarely a smart building

© 2016 studioFAB limited / Paul Fletcher

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Builtthe evolution of buildings and how buildings adapt to changing

requirements over long periods.

yet there is a (reluctant) admission that what we design and construct doesn’t

actually work very well…



stage 0, 1

truerstage 7

assumedstage 7

a building in use is a system of complex interaction;

architecture

building physics

and…

humans - us & our behaviours


complex need not mean complicated…


a smart building should...

…be one that does not make the user(s) feel dumb

It embraces complexity yet removes complication.

And those designing and constructing it understand

that Outcome always trumps Product!

(and that ‘lay’ people is an unacceptable term)

(the house is a) machine for living...

LeCorbusier

accommodation(using technology to replicate an analogue process)

adaptation(extending the digital process into new, incremental functionality)

evolution(creating new, otherwise unanticipatable practices)

toward a more human architecture

Nicholas Negroponte

complex need not mean complicated…

artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, 3-D printing, nanotechnology,

biotechnology, materials science, energy storage, and quantum computing.


with smart thinking…we could change emphasis and focus to buildings (and built environment) as service, not merely product, co-creating environments in which people and society at

large can thrive…

forget Smart Buildings (for that is merely gadgets and digitised adaptation) what is needed are buildings that are

truly ‘machines for living’ - harnessing the best of our knowledge with empowering technology…


“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes…”

Einstein

with smart thinking…Einstein solved with mathematics and physics…

smart thinking (for me) is about new questions, not just getting

ever better at answering the same old questions…

We solve with design and construction…


thought experiment…considers hypothesis, theory, or principle for the purpose of thinking through its consequences.

This is what I do.

Built Environment Ideation

This is how I find the questions…


smart thinking……can herald an era of

intelligent buildingsbuildings that augment the wellbeing of occupants

such buildings will be autonomous


thank you, questions?


smart buildings need smart thinking!

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