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 Jacques Vink, Yvo Zijlstra Smart Architecture SLA Slimme Architectuur Netherlands 2000, 6’ “Smart Architecture” is always green but green architecture is not always smart. Smart architecture offers an integral solution to a variety of design challenges: the environmental problem, the optimal use of space and other resources, a functional utilisation of materials and technology, and aesthetics. Smart architecture is never just green - it is always something more. Smart architecture is intelligent. It may be the work of an intelligent designer who succeeds in finding his way through a tricky design situation with surprising simplicity. But there can also be an intelligent building or space that interacts with its environment and which adapts to the user's wishes. Smart architecture is not complicated. It may well be complex but it is no more complex than necessary. Sometimes a simple and hence ostensibly 'dumb' building is smarter than a technology-dominated living-and-working machine over which the user has lost control. Smart architecture is sometimes surprisingly simple. A smart solution is often the kind of solution that is obvious after the event. You get the feeling “If only I'd thought of that myself”. Simple solutions are anything but dumb. Smart architecture is beautiful and elegant, in the same way that a good solution for a mathematical theorem can be beautiful and elegant. Smart architecture is optimistic and cheerful. Who can object to smartness? There is always something pleasing about it and often it's even witty. A 6 minutes video, introducing the theme of smart architecture. Jacques Vink was educated at the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture. He graduated in 1989, and has since worked as freelance architect for several (inter)national architectural offices, including OMA Rotterdam and Wood/Marsh Melbourne. In 1997 he founded ‘het Ruimtelab’ (Spacelab) office for architectural design and research. As journalist he has written several publications on the subject of sustainable architecture for the architectural magazines ‘Architectuur & Bouwen’ and ‘Duurzaam Bouwen’. Yvo Zijlstra (1959) is founder of Knockout. Knockout started in 1997 as a co-operation project between Yvo Zijlstra and Henk Elenga, who retired in 999. Soon after the start technical designer Marcel van der Zwet joined. Ever since the start the company is focusing on state of the art multimedia projects. Knockout does the direction for visual media; the development, design, construction and production of graphic multi media projects (visual identity programs, editorial design, interfaces, videographics, etc.). |
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