Abstract
Today more than half of the world’s population lives in cities not yet ready for the massive growth and adaptation required to meet global urbanization predicted for the next decades. The planning, design, and urban governance must urgently evolve. Future cities should become more efficient, inclusive, and sustainable. The intelligent town we anticipate combines the concepts of new information flow as well as research proposals for the design, upgrade of buildings and municipal infrastructure using robots and mechatronic systems at the scale of dwelling, building, neighborhood, district or town. This article presents the conceptual framework for the role of kinetic and responsive design at the scale of small urban areas, taking into account dynamic adaptation to users’ needs and changing environmental conditions across a day, week, month and year.
Highlights
The challenges of the reorganization and expansion of cities of the future are associated with a reference to both long-term trends and events that are difficult to predict, which may significantly affect the functioning of a district, city, region or be global, as in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic (Figure 1)
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Case studies were selected from among the collected kinetic architecture implementations, carried out in the years 2000–2020, described in publications available in the Web of Science database (“kinetic architecture” in the architecture discipline) and books on kinetic and variable architecture published in years 2010–2020
Summary
The challenges of the reorganization and expansion of cities of the future are associated with a reference to both long-term trends and events that are difficult to predict, which may significantly affect the functioning of a district, city, region or be global, as in the case of the COVID-19 pandemic (Figure 1). The study considers both aspects in the context of architectural elements allowing to change the geometry and reconfiguration of selected public spaces.
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