Lumenhaus – Responsive Architecture

Dunay: So, the buildings are going to talk to us. The components in the buildings are going to talk to each other, all towards an end of making life both more meaningful, more easy and more fruitful.

With a blend of cutting-edge architecture and technology, the house of the future will automatically respond to our needs and to changes in the environment. I’m Jim Metzner and this is the Pulse of the Planet.

Dunay: You’re sitting in your living room on a cold winter day, and the sun is rising, and now two hours later, the sun is hitting the south wall fairly strong. What happens is the screens that are automated on the outside wall of the south faade start to open to admit the sun. They’re moving because the computer has determined the solar gain on the floor would be more beneficial in terms of heat, than blocking the winter sun on the southern faade.

Robert Dunay is Director of the Center for Design Research in the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech. He’s describing Lumenhaus, a prototype of a house of the future.

Dunay: Later on that day, you’re in your living room reading, and the glare of the sun is causing some distraction. Rather than wait for the autonomous system to click in, you select your iPad, and you select the My House icon, and you send a signal to the panel to close. The shutter screen closes and, basically blocks part of the sunlight but admits fractals during the morning hours and makes a beautiful interior space naturally day-lit.
One of the directions of architecture is to start to employ technology more than it ever has, and we’re going to find, as in Lumenhaus buildings are going to become both responsive to external conditions over the course of the year and also responsive to inhabitants’ desires and moods.

For more information visit lumenhaus.com. I’m Jim Metzner and this is the Pulse of the Planet

Lumenhaus - Responsive Architecture

In the future, the components in buildings are going to talk to each other and to us.

Air Date:11/18/2014

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Lumenhaus - Responsive Architecture

Dunay: So, the buildings are going to talk to us. The components in the buildings are going to talk to each other, all towards an end of making life both more meaningful, more easy and more fruitful.

With a blend of cutting-edge architecture and technology, the house of the future will automatically respond to our needs and to changes in the environment. I'm Jim Metzner and this is the Pulse of the Planet.

Dunay: You're sitting in your living room on a cold winter day, and the sun is rising, and now two hours later, the sun is hitting the south wall fairly strong. What happens is the screens that are automated on the outside wall of the south faade start to open to admit the sun. They're moving because the computer has determined the solar gain on the floor would be more beneficial in terms of heat, than blocking the winter sun on the southern faade.

Robert Dunay is Director of the Center for Design Research in the School of Architecture and Design at Virginia Tech. He's describing Lumenhaus, a prototype of a house of the future.

Dunay: Later on that day, you're in your living room reading, and the glare of the sun is causing some distraction. Rather than wait for the autonomous system to click in, you select your iPad, and you select the My House icon, and you send a signal to the panel to close. The shutter screen closes and, basically blocks part of the sunlight but admits fractals during the morning hours and makes a beautiful interior space naturally day-lit.
One of the directions of architecture is to start to employ technology more than it ever has, and we're going to find, as in Lumenhaus buildings are going to become both responsive to external conditions over the course of the year and also responsive to inhabitants' desires and moods.

For more information visit lumenhaus.com. I'm Jim Metzner and this is the Pulse of the Planet