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It provides models and processes for the creation of artifical systems that are <br>
designed to produce forms and complex behaviour, and perhaps even real intelligence.

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---++++Waagner Biro

The Waagner Biro Stahl-Glas-Technik Group is the international partner for modern architectural steel <br>
construction. The company is specialised in planning and development of customised, innovative solutions<br>
 for highly complex requirements.<br>
Waagner-Biro Stahl-Glas-Technik creates unique structures of steel and glass, which combine unusual<br>
 architecture with the lightness of a steel-glass construction. The company works in these areas with <br>
leading, international architects such as SOM, Norman Foster, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Hans Hollein, The Jerde <br>
Partnership, Epstein and Sons and many other giants in the architectural scene. The Reichstag dome in <br>
Berlin, the Red Bull Hangar 7 in Salzburg, the Sage Music Center or the British Museum are just a few <br>
examples of how the most demanding designs are turned into reality.


   * The new dome over the Reichstag in Berlin

The conference chamber of the Reichstag building was enveloped with a 24 ribbed dome, 40 m in diameter<br>
and approx. 25 m high. The outer skin is clad with large glass elements. Two internal winding stairs lead to<br>
 a 200 m² viewing platform. The "light cone" is covered in 360 mirrors and reflects daylight into the inside of <br>
the conference chamber. To avoid direct sunlight, an electronically controlled sunshade element continuously <br>
covers the mirrors directly facing the sun.

http://www.waagner-biro.at/CDA/main/images/SG/Referenz_Kuppel_reichstag-tag2,method=render,prop=data.jpg
 
   * British Museum

he British Museum was built in the 18th century.  It encloses, in the form of a square, the Great Court which has<br>
 as its center the historical Reading Room. The Great Court, created for the British Library, was converted by Lord <br>
Norman Foster into a spectacular public space which is covered by an elegant steel-glass structure the size of a <br>
football field.  This newly created area covers galleries, shops and a restaurant. It has now become the real focus <br>of the museum. 
Currently the Great Court is the biggest covered public area in Europe.

http://www.waagner-biro.at/CDA/main/images/SG/Brit_Mu_dia,method=render,prop=data.jpg

http://www.waagner-biro.at 
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---++++Achim Menges

   * Postagriculture project

The ambitions of the ‘Postagriculture’ project, by architect Achim Menges, stem from the recognition of the critical <br>
importance of environmentally and socially sustainable food production. The aim is to develop an inclusive and <br>
responsive strategy that will enable a mode of agriculture that is highly integrated, mutable and a vital urban programme. <br>

http://www.fabrication.ald.utoronto.ca/exhibitions/digital_fabricators/achim_menges.jpg

   * Landscape Playhouse Copenhagen 

The design proceeds from the recognition of the many different activities that are part of going to the theatre. In <br>
response to the limited capacity of conventional theatre plans to accommodate diverse activities, the aim of this <br>
proposal is to create an environment that provides for a multitude of different cultural and social activities, and that<br>
 responds to its users and provides an intense urban space. A continuous surface was developed, the folds of which <br>
provide a variety of different conditions of enclosure, climate, sound and light. This field of conditions was used to <br>
evolve the sectional articulation of the building envelope, which constructs an urban landscape permeable to the <br>
public on every level. Alongside the theatre spaces, this acts as a filter and connects to the major tourist attractions <br>
of the waterfront.The space is divided into areas of "hard" programmes that cater for specific requirements and "soft"<br>
 zones that allow for a wide range of different activities and events to happen. Programmes are distributed in the <br>
landscape formed by the surface folds according to the condition profiles of activities in relation to spatial performances.<br>
The material articulation of the landscape was derived from a series of soap-bubble experiments. 

http://www.buildingcentretrust.org/xplorer/RECENT/recent_trial/big_pics/achim_menges.jpg

http://www.evolutionary-strategies.org/
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---++++Peter Cook (Archigram) and Colin Fournier

"While the building's interior is meant to inspire its curators as a "black box of hidden tricks", its outer skin is a media <br>
facade which can be changed electronically." <br>
Colin Fournier<br>
Like a bubble of air, the bluish, shimmering skin of the Kunsthaus floats above its glass-walled ground floor. Spanning <br>
up to 60 metres in width, the biomorphic construction envelops two large exhibition rooms without additional supports.<br>
From the surface of the acrylic glass outer "skin", strikingly shaped "nozzles" project outwards to admit daylight: they are <br>
inclined to the north and thus provide optimum natural lighting.<br>

http://www.arcspace.com/architects/cook/1.Graz.jpg

http://www.arcspace.com/architects/cook/6.Graz.jpg

http://www.arge-kunsthaus.at/
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-- Openloop.JaynePotter - 21 Jun 2005
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