[alife] Call for papers: Frontiers topic on Living Buildings

[Claudio Rossi]

About this Research Topic:

Full title: Frontiers topic on Living Buildings: Bio-Inspired and Robotized Intelligent Architectures

To be published in:
-Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Bionics and Biomimetics)
-Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (Bionics and Biomimetics)


Future buildings will have the capability of reconfiguring some of their main components such as façades, rooftops and partitions, as well as lighting systems and other functional or decorative elements.

Such components will likely be equipped with sensors and actuating elements, moved according to some perception-control-action loop. They can therefore be considered robotic systems at all effects. As such, they can be provided with learning and adaptation capabilities.

Such feature will allow them to perform accordingly to the activities that take place in the building, and respond intelligently to internal and/or external environmental conditions and even according to the emotional status of the users, with the purpose of optimizing the resources employed (i.e. energy efficiency), as well as improving the comfort, empathy and wellbeing of the users. Not forgetting other characteristics that are associated to architecture such as symbolic, artistic and expressive values.

Considering future buildings as intelligent robotic systems opens a new way of a fruitful interaction between Architecture, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence which is full of potential both from the point of view of research and impact in people’s lives. 

The aim of this Research Topic is to establish a forum where researchers of different disciplines can present their works in the topics of:

-Bio-inspired and bio-mimetic buildings and main components
-Robotized structures
-Intelligent building behaviour
-Reconfigurable structures (functional and/or esthetic) 
-Human-building interaction
-Emotional and cognitive building-user interaction
-Smart and functional materials (either controlled or self-configuring)

Keywords: bio-inspired buildings, biomimetic architecture, robotized structures, intelligent building behaviour, reconfigurable structures, human-building interaction, emotional and cognitive building-user interaction


Submission Deadlines:

30 June 2016	       Abstract
31 October 2016	Manuscript


http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/4721/living-buildings-bio-inspired-and-robotized-intelligent-architectures


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Claudio Rossi | CENTRE FOR AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS 
UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID - CSIC
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