Future Opportunities - Contribution

For the architectural opportunities section of this assignment, four separated opportunities needed to be developed, or identified. As there were four members in our group, we decided to each do one, discussing what we would do before hand so that our ideas did not overlap. 

The opportunity that I presented was one of reactive, adaptable architecture. I explained this on the panels with this diagram (below)

My vision is that architecture can learn from nature, and adapt new technologies to better suit the city. What I am trying to present in this diagram is the idea of buildings having high platforms, that act as public space. Throughout the day these platforms would rotate around the building, to capture maximum sunlight, but also to cast minimum shadows on the ground plane below. This is really just one way of many in which biomimicry could be used in future cities to solve problems faced today. 

The other aspect of this that i looked at was that of adaptable architecture, buildings that could change their stuff, their space plan, their services, maybe even their skin or their structure (see Shearing Layers). In sort of a Cedric Price type design on steroids, buildings could change radically to suit the needs of occupants at varying times. This sort of architecture is what I hope will be the basis for my final design project