Towards a Lively Architecture explores response through tectonic assembly and material behavior. By focusing on the natural behaviors of wood and designing for those behaviors, we can begin to understand new forms of assembly that can change how we think about space. This increased sensitivity to the behaviors of materials can result in an architecture that is in turn sensitive to its surroundings.
The field of responsive architecture has explored several avenues response including media screens, light sensitive facades, and reactive wall systems, but has not extensively addressed tectonics as a vehicle for response. Towards a Lively Architecture addresses issues of response through the exploration of delicate, branching, aggregate structures that inherently embody aspects of “Liveliness”.
Thesis by David Heaton
