Editorial

IF 2.1 Q2 CONSTRUCTION & BUILDING TECHNOLOGY Intelligent Buildings International Pub Date : 2022-03-04 DOI:10.1080/17508975.2022.2082212
D. Clements–Croome
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In an inspiring presentation on May 19th in a webinar arranged by the CIBSE Intelligent Buildings Group the environmental psychologist Anicee Bauer speaking from Amsterdam reminded us of some fundamental issues that affect how we behave and the consequential influences they have on sustainability. Our expectancies have reached a level that outstrip what the Earth can comfortably provide. Speeds of action we demand today can mean any deep thinking is curtailed so shallow outcomes result. Buildings or cities for example can be soulless and human values sacrificed for monetary gains so value becomes an empty word stretched and banded around without any understanding of the deeper consequences. Embedding actions with real meaning. Head, heart and hands offer not just skill but also thoughtful care, passion and love which one can feel when using a building for example. The atmosphere evoked within a cathedral is palpable and it is obvious that all the crafts people put themselves body and soul into their work over a lifetime in many instances. Bauer believes that spirituality is the root of sustainability. Being close to Nature affects one in many subtle ways. The basic language of the Earth speaks to us and yet so often we ignore it. There is now an urgent sense that we must heed the clues Nature gives us and effect a close bond between the spiritual core of us as creators, our hearts and then adopt an eco-lifestyle that respects the Earth and our place on it. Our actions affect the whole as we realise more and more, we live in an interconnected world. What we do every day impacts the environment, but we wrongly assume each individual action is so small we need not bother about it but these impacts originating from nearly a world population of 8 billion do matter. Bauer concludes we need a change in our thinking about real values with real meaning. There are imperfections in our actions but courage, sincerity and humility can counter these so they become learning experiences. How can technology enable the world painted by Anicee Bauer? Technology is an enabler not a master, but AI helps to streamline connectivity. In this issue, the first paper from Tohoku University in Japan discusses AI as a design rather than as a tool for design. We can imagine AI being the brain of the building connecting all the neural systems feeding the structure and fluid flow systems with wearable technology registering occupiers reactions to their environment. Conscious intelligent buildings are emerging. I recommend the TED Talk 2019 by Danyal Ahmed, the author here, on Architecture in the Age of AI. So, we can envisage the intelligent building becoming more of an organism and this is a theme in the next two papers. A team from Iran describe work on living bio-facades. The 2013 BIQ building in Hamburg is one example but the authors stretch the concept further. The artificial leaf is another development. By using a water wall with the leaves immersed within it acts as a catalyst and produces hydrogen when the sunlight impinges on the wall. Esther Borkowski and her team at UCL take a practical view and examine the current state of adaptive envelopes. The present Building Performance Simulation tools seem to be limited. By collecting a lot of practitioners experiences the authors describe how BPS tools may develop in the future. (note Borkowski now has a Chair at ETH University in Zurich). The next two papers from teams in Australia discuss how BIM enables effective information flows in projects and then how BIM can be used in fire hazard management. In a paper from a team Laval University in Canada they describe a new lighting survey and visualisation method using 3D laser scanning. This will be invaluable to allow users to try out different scenarios. The last paper by a team from the Netherlands shows how valuable the use of focus groups is in procuring data on energy and comfort. A study in homes used generative techniques in a qualitative way to complement quantitative data and so help us to understand more deeply how behaviour patterns affect health and energy use.
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5月19日,在CIBSE智能建筑集团安排的网络研讨会上,环境心理学家Anicee Bauer在阿姆斯特丹发表了一篇鼓舞人心的演讲,提醒我们一些影响我们行为方式的基本问题,以及它们对可持续性的影响。我们的预期已经达到了超过地球所能提供的水平。我们今天要求的行动速度可能意味着任何深入的思考都会受到限制,从而导致肤浅的结果。例如,建筑或城市可能是没有灵魂的,人类的价值观可能被牺牲以换取金钱利益,因此价值变成了一个空洞的词,被拉伸和捆绑在一起,而不了解更深层次的后果。嵌入具有实际意义的行动。头、心和手不仅提供了技能,还提供了周到的关怀、激情和爱,例如在使用建筑物时可以感受到这些。大教堂内唤起的气氛是显而易见的,很明显,在许多情况下,所有的手工艺品都是人们在一生中全身心地投入到工作中的。鲍尔认为精神是可持续发展的根源。亲近自然在许多微妙的方面影响着人。地球的基本语言与我们对话,但我们经常忽视它。现在有一种紧迫的感觉,我们必须注意大自然给我们的线索,在我们作为创造者的精神核心和我们的心灵之间建立紧密的联系,然后采取一种尊重地球和我们在地球上的地位的生态生活方式,我们生活在一个相互联系的世界里。我们每天所做的事情都会影响环境,但我们错误地认为每一个单独的行动都很小,我们不必为此烦恼,但这些来自近80亿世界人口的影响确实很重要。鲍尔总结道,我们需要改变对具有真正意义的真正价值观的思考。我们的行为有缺陷,但勇气、真诚和谦逊可以克服这些缺陷,使它们成为学习的经验。技术如何让Anicee Bauer描绘的世界成为现实?技术是一个推动者,而不是大师,但人工智能有助于简化连接。在本期中,日本东北大学的第一篇论文将人工智能作为一种设计而非设计工具进行了讨论。我们可以想象,人工智能是建筑的大脑,它将所有为结构和流体流动系统提供信息的神经系统与可穿戴技术连接起来,记录居住者对环境的反应。有意识的智能建筑正在兴起。我推荐这里的作者Danyal Ahmed关于人工智能时代的建筑的2019年TED演讲。因此,我们可以设想智能建筑变得更像一个有机体,这是接下来两篇论文的主题。一个来自伊朗的团队描述了在活体生物外墙上的工作。2013年汉堡BIQ大楼就是一个例子,但作者进一步扩展了这一概念。人造树叶是另一个发展。通过使用浸有树叶的水墙,它起到了催化剂的作用,当阳光照射到墙上时会产生氢气。伦敦大学学院的Esther Borkowski和她的团队从实际出发,研究了自适应包络的当前状态。目前的建筑性能模拟工具似乎是有限的。通过收集大量从业者的经验,作者描述了BPS工具在未来的发展。(注:Borkowski现在在苏黎世ETH大学担任主席)。接下来来自澳大利亚团队的两篇论文讨论了BIM如何在项目中实现有效的信息流,以及BIM如何用于火灾隐患管理。在加拿大拉瓦尔大学的一个团队的一篇论文中,他们描述了一种使用3D激光扫描的新的照明调查和可视化方法。这将是非常宝贵的,允许用户尝试不同的场景。荷兰团队的最后一篇论文显示了焦点小组在获取能源和舒适度数据方面的价值。一项在家庭中进行的研究以定性的方式使用了生成技术来补充定量数据,从而帮助我们更深入地了解行为模式如何影响健康和能源使用。
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