ARCHITECTURAL INTERFACES OF HYBRID HUMANS 

Ada Kwiatkowska

Abstract 

The idea of architectural form is influenced by the philosophical concepts of human being. In digital age, the human body is confronted with the concepts of avatar, cyborg or hybrid being. Development of digital technologies broke the barriers between the body and machine, extending the sensory and mental abilities of humans. Discoveries of genetic engineering allow to manipulate the human genes and announce the concept of a man as designed being. This concept will have an influence on the future architectural forms and mutual relations between a man and the built-environment. The architects define the future generations of architectural forms in relation to changes of human bodies' concepts. Some of the architectural visions focus on the interactive relations between the mutable human body and transformable spatial settings on different levels of architectural objects' complexity. New generations of architectural forms are A.I. structures operating in the trans-bio-technological ecosystem. They are based on data transmitting and mutual conversion of info-energy-matter-space-time parameters in the topological space. Architectural patterns of digital age are based on the higher order, higher complexity of systems and active power of information forcing the A.I. of spatial structures. The question is, whether liberating the architectural forms and forcing the intellectual power of structures to interact with evolving human body will extend the human perception or will be a trap for human mind?

Article:

Kwiatkowska, Ada, „Architectural Interfaces of Hybrid Humans”, [in:] Rethinking the Human in Technology-Driven Architecture, M.Voyatzaki, C.Spiridonidis (eds.), EAAE / ENHSA Conference Proceedings, Chania'11, Thessaloniki: Charis Ltd: 2012, pp.363-370. (drawings by Ada Kwiatkowska) 

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