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Crowdsourcing Software Could Help US Move House and Stay Where We Are
The Adaptive Architecture Framework crowdsourcing site aims to provide a categorized overview of building adaptations and their causes.
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Holger Schnadelbach at the University of Nottingham's School of Computer Science has developed a crowdsourcing website dubbed Adaptive Architecture Framework (AAF) to provide a categorized overview of building adaptations and their causes.
The software tool is now live and Schnadelbach wants others to contribute their ideas to complete the picture.
"The AAF allows people to explore connections and examples across the emerging field of adaptive architecture," he says. "When logged in, people can contribute to the crowdsourcing of the information map, changing, adding, and re-publishing information."
Schnadelbach says adaptive architecture is not about the function of buildings, but about how buildings react to the people who use them. He is examining the link between modern sensing and actuation to find out how people can adapt to buildings effectively, such as by managing internal climates, spatial adaptations, soundscapes, and media, as well as connectivity to mobile devices and how buildings can "learn" through the use of computer and sensor technology. For example, "eco houses" are adaptive because they respond to the environment and inhabitants; Nottingham's Creative Energy Homes Project is an example of how this can be done.
From University of Nottingham (United Kingdom)
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