ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE

SUBMITTED TO SUBMITTED BY
AR.SACHIN PALIWAL AR.SHAILJA SONI
AR.SUMAN SHARMA AR. CHIRAYU JAIN
AR.NEELAM KUSHWAH
AR.NITYA DURVE
ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE
 ADAPTIVE- ARCHITECTURE

Adaptive Architecture is a multi-disciplinary field concerned with buildings that

are designed to adapt to their environments, their inhabitants and objects as well as those
buildings that are entirely driven by internal data. Because of its multi-disciplinary
nature, developments across Architecture, Computer Science, the Social Sciences, Urban
Planning and the Arts can appear disjointed, some times leading to parallel developments
of the same ideas, false starts and the repeat of mistake
 DESIGN STRATEGIES IN ADAPTIVE
ARCHITECTURE
The following are the design strategies under Adaptive architecture:
• Mobility
• Levels of prescription
• Reusability and standardisation
• Automation – Design for intervention by humans
• Building independence
Mobility
Mobility as a design strategy allows buildings to better respond to changes around them. It is seen
that mostly, the architecture is fixed to one location. In adaptive Architecture, ideas and inspiration is
often taken from related mobile infrastructure such as trailers, boats, caravans to develop building
the respond to inhabitants’ needs. This results in transportable and mobile architecture
Levels of Prescription
There is no limit as to what can be prescribed when it comes to adaptive architecture. At one end
of the scale, things are left open; the framework is designed in such a way so as to handle the
conceivable interior adaptations. At the other end of the scale, we prescribe all possible adaptations
and this is done in an effort to anticipate what occupants of such a building might require over the
life-time of the building.
Reusability and Standardisation
The building can be designed in a simple way, where every module is made to fit that
particular building. In most buildings, some form of standardisation exists. In the case of pre-
fabricated buildings, almost all components are standardised. In this case, components could be
switchable, which should lead to more adaptive design.
BUILSING INDEPENDENCE
Finally, the design space also incorporates a dimension or strategy that addresses the
level of autonomy of a building from its inhabitants. Adaptations in most Adaptive
Architecture are in eampxle changing to the environment or objects.
 Brisbane River - America

The exterior walls of homes slide back to reveal transparent volumes, the facade of
aparking garage ripples like the surface of a nearby river and individual rooms rise high into the at
the push of a button in these transforming, adapting, kinetic works of architecture.
 Netherlands

The accordion-like pivoting windows on this unusual reclaimed restaurant in Amsterdam

transform the facade in wave-like patterns when they are opened in certain ways, adding visual
interest to what would otherwise simply be a steel and glass box. De Architekten Cie built the
restaurant upon one of the last surviving pivot railway bridges in the Netherlands, making use of
a striking historic feature with panoramic views.
 SHAPESHIFTING SHARIFI-HA HOUSE

Three dynamic inner volumes sheathwood pivot nearly 360 degrees within a concrete shell at the
Sharifi-Ha House in Tehran by design firm ned in extoffice, orienting these rooms in new ways to
provide varying degrees of natural daylight and privacy. The push of a button sends the guest room,
home office or dining room cantilevering out over the street, spinning to face a new direction or
pulling them protectively back into the envelope. When facing straight out, they open up new
terraces on each level.
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