Barba: Life in the Fully Adaptable Environment

Imagine a new substance that could be steered and altered in real time. Imagine creating a flexible material that could change its shape, that could shrink and expand, that could do almost anything... We've named this material Barba. With Barba, we would be able to adapt our environment to ever...

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Main Authors: Maas, Winy 1959- (Author), Hackauf, Ulf (Author), Ravon, Adrien (Author), Healy, Patrick 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam nai010 publishers [2015]
Series:Future cities series 8
Summary:Imagine a new substance that could be steered and altered in real time. Imagine creating a flexible material that could change its shape, that could shrink and expand, that could do almost anything... We've named this material Barba. With Barba, we would be able to adapt our environment to every desire and to every need. How could nanotechnology change buildings and cities in the future? This speculation of the Why Factory is illustrated in the best tradition of science fiction. It forms the point of departure for a series of interactive experiments, installations and proposals towards the development of new, body-based and fully adaptive architectures. A beautiful and horrendous existential story comes alive. A story closer to us then you'd ever have thought...
ISBN:9789462082533

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