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Wed 12.02.2009
New Technologies for Adaptive Buildings
CES LUs 1.5; HSW 1.5When: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2
Where: At The Center
Chuck Hoberman will present his current architectural and theatrical projects. He will discuss how he is applying his specialty in transformable structures to create technologies for a new generation of adaptive buildings. His talk will demonstrate how adaptive performance in buildings can reduce energy consumption, enhance occupant comfort and better optimize space use.
The principles of transformable design, analysis techniques, integration into fixed architecture and manufacturing options will be discussed. The design of transformable structures is intrinsically rule-based, and his talk will explore the way in which parametric techniques enable the creation of movable, multi-state transformable systems for buildings.
Chuck Hoberman is the founder of Hoberman Associates, a multidisciplinary practice with clients ranging across sectors including consumer products, deployable shelters, and space structures. Examples of his commissioned work include the transforming LED screen that served as the primary stage element for U2's 2009 world tour and the Hoberman Arch in Salt Lake City, installed as the centerpiece for the Winter Olympic Games (2002). Other noteworthy commissions include a retractable dome for the World's Fair in Hanover, Germany (2000); the Expanding Hypar (1997) at the California Museum of Science and Industry; the Expanding Sphere (1992) at the Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, New Jersey; and the Expanding Geodesic Dome (1997) at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Hoberman's work has been exhibited several times at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2008 his commissioned installation Emergent Surface was part of the exhibit "Design and the Elastic Mind."
For more information see:
http://www.hoberman.com/home.html
http://www.adaptivebuildings.com/index.html
Organized by: AIANY Technology Committee
CES LUs 1.5; HSW 1.5
Free for all, thanks to the generous support of ABC-Imaging.
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