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Towards an Architecture Operating as a Bio-Cyber-Physical System

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https://doi.org/10.7480/spool.2020.3.5492

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architecture, Bio-Cyber-Physical System

Abstract

Today’s physical-digital continuum challenges designers and architects to envision architecture as a Bio-Cyber-Physical System that is operating as part of a larger ecosystem while addressing societal challenges with a broader understanding of sustainability in mind.  This paper identifies current conditions, challenges and opportunities, while proposing an intercultural dialog toward achieving a better future. The purpose is to enlighten and explore the threshold where the physical interlaces the domain of immaterial flows of information as well as identify some of the digital and material design aspects shaping the multiple facets of bio-cyber-physical-systems in order to propose some possible solutions for current design challenges.

 

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Pillan, M., Pavlovic, M., & Bier, H. (2021). Towards an Architecture Operating as a Bio-Cyber-Physical System. SPOOL, 7(3), 47–58. https://doi.org/10.7480/spool.2020.3.5492

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2021-02-14

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