Oculus - Winter 2015 - (Page 30) ©Ennead Architects in collaboration with Jones Studio and Unified Field; rendering by Atchain feature Architecture at the Digital Edge Technology is both transforming and becoming part of architectural design B Y e L i Ku s L A n s K Y W hether you imagine the digital edge of architecture to be a razor-thin or a wide amorphous boundary between the physical and virtual worlds, there is no doubt that digital technologies have changed architecture forever. In the mid-1970s, architects started using digital tools predominantly for computer-aided drafting. Forty-five years later, digital technologies are the primary means that architects use for creating whole new languages of spatial design. The digital edge of architecture is now a transitive verb in the design language of the built environment, acting as a grand "connector" eliminating boundaries between language, space, orientation, and time. Buildings enhanced with digital technology help people curate their journeys by intelligently tagging space with relevant and timely information. Social media, another factor, is influencing architectural design, where knowledge and data about a building and people's activities are not only stored, but also shared, distributed, and visualized in novel actionable ways. Integrating media into the built environment A case in point is the new Arizona Center for Law and Society (ACLS) at Arizona State University (ASU) in Phoenix. As the public perception of the legal system evolves, law schools are struggling with decreasing enrollments and fewer job prospects for graduates. At the ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of 30 Oculus Winter 2015 Law, scheduled to open in 2016, Dean Douglas Sylvester had a bold vision - reinvent the traditional law school experience with a new modern facility designed with an openness aimed at celebrating the convergence of law and society. Through the seamless integration of innovative technology, the building's design aspires to facilitate interaction between students, faculty, the downtown community, and Phoenix's legal and criminal justice system. This new six-story, 260,000-square-foot complex, designed by Ennead Architects, used a parallel design process to fulfill Dean Sylvester's vision by bringing in Unified Field to develop the interactive media and content strategy in tandem with the architectural design. Unified Field came up with a flexible and responsive platform called the Pulse. The Pulse paints a real-time, dynamic, interactive picture of the user community as it moves through the building. It is accessed through a mobile app, interactive media walls, and large-scale outdoor displays, and tied together with an RFID tagging system and strategically-placed proximity sensors. These components constitute a digital wayfinding knowledge mapping system that will offer real value to users. The Pulse sends content to mobile devices to update schedules, guide navigation, and link people together filtered by their profiles. The Pulse is fed by sources such as expert profiles, Reinventing Architecture: Design in a Digital World Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Oculus - Winter 2015 First Words Letter from Two Presidents Letter from the Editor Center for Architecture One Block Over Opener: Practical Attitudes ICE in the River: Cornell Tech’s Center of Connectivity Restoring – At Least Virtually – One of England’s Greatest Lost Buildings At the Corner of Past and Present The Design-Fabrication Dynamic How Big Data is Reshaping Architecture Architecture at the Digital Edge 3D for the Defense Thinking Beyond the Flat Page In Print 51-Year Watch Last Words Index to Advertisers Oculus - Winter 2015 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0317 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0217 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0117 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0416 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0316 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0216 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0116 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0415 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0315 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0215 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0115 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0414 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0314 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0214 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0114 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0413 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0313 http://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/ARCQ/ARCQ0213 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0113 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0412 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0312 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0212 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0112 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0411 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0311 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0211 http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/ARCQ0111 http://www.nxtbookMEDIA.com
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