Bio Logic_Responsive Building Technology

In an effort to better understand the porous boundaries between living and non-living systems we will look to nature as a model network of interactive systems that produce no waste; we will observe that animals and plants have evolved a large variety of reliable and relatively simple mechanisms to adapt to environmental fluctuation; we will understand that the inherent complexity of the mechanisms is an emergent property based on simple rule sets. Specifically the team will develop responsive building technologies that operate in accordance with the biologic condition of homeostasis ?? the ability for an organism to maintain equilibrium in response to fluctuating environmental conditions. The primary objective is to advance the potential of the building envelope to serve as a selective filter, a three-dimensional porous topography calibrated, through active or passive means, to store, transform or dissipate energy. We will apply our research to some of the immediate and relevant problems that face society today, either in the form of building retrofit or the design of new building prototypes.