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[arc/sec] Reactive Architecture
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[arc/sec] Reactive Architecture
Uwe Rieger and XTH, Berlin
September 11 – October 3, 2008
Gallery One and Two
ST PAUL ST is proud to present [arc/sec], a collaboration initiated and supervised by Uwe Rieger, Architect and Associate Head: Design at the School of Architecture and Planning at The University of Auckland.
[arc/sec] – Reactive Architecture focuses on environmentally responsive design strategies as an interaction between landscape, people, architecture and digital information. `Reacting` in this case means a responsive behaviour to changing conditions such as weather, climate, program, frequency of use or topography. Reactive Architecture is focussed on efficiency relating to usage of space, material, construction, energy, time and pleasure. The [arc/sec] projects take strategies and processes in nature as an impulse for architectural development.
In form of six interactive installations the exhibition will showcase for the first time innovative concepts of reactive architecture in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The projects exhibited include WideShut, developed with XTH Berlin, a prototype of a light sensitive façade system; ShippingLandscape, developed with XTH- Berlin and Duncan Lewis, Bordeaux; Delta Wing, a haptic digital model of a hybrid building-machine, which uses an internal vertical garden structure to generate a composite growing environment as a recreational living area.
For the first time ever, the exhibition will showcase ZeroPlus, a new research initiative by Uwe Rieger, P. Leardini, K. Rosemeier which aims to design and build New Zealand’s first zero-energy house meeting the international Passive House SSTtandard.
Click here to visit ZeroPlus Website
You can also browse the catalogue of the exhibition [arc/sec] Reactive Architecture 
And listen to Uwe Rieger answering the question: "What is reactive architecture?" ...
http://www.ourownwords.ac.nz/podcast.html
The University of Auckland - In our words - Podcasts
MP3, 11m21s, 2.6MB
The exhibition has been kindly supported by the School of Architecture and Planning and the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries at The University of Auckland, the NZIA Auckland Branch, and ST PAUL ST Gallery, the School of Art & Design, Auckland University of Technology.