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“How to Cool Down Dense Urban Environments? A Discussion on Site-Specific Urban Mitigating Strategies”

Abstract. New media and modern building automation have a strong impact on contemporary architecture. So far one could regard built architecture as static. These new technologies introduce a dynamic impulse to architecture. The objective of our research and teaching work is to demonstrate the impact of innovative systems on architecture in daily usage while providing building automation, multimedia integration and facility management services in intelligent networked buildings. These technologies, as described in this paper are integrated in our second year course for students of Architecture. By designing an interactive graphical interface for the lab they were asked to create a spatial scenario as a self running Flash animation. Thus real space is merged with virtual reality. Keywords. CAAD Curriculum, Human-Computer Interaction, Web-Based Design Building Automation, Generative Graphical Interfaces Read the full paper here.