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About
The Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies (CAST) investigates the evolving relationship between emerging technologies and the built environment.
News
Keynote Lecture @ Torrance Festival of Ideas
April 18, 2023
Data and (Dis)obedience Conference
March 15, 2023
Research
Functionally Graded Textiles
This research intends to investigate the architectural and structural potential of helical auxetic yarns (HAY) as a component in new fiber reinforced composite materials and tensioned membranes.
Publications
Sentient City: ubiquitous computing, architecture, and the future of urban space
Sentient City explores the experience of living in a city that can remember, correlate, and anticipate.
Initiatives
Reflexive Architecture Machines
An exhibition of student and faculty research work in responsive materials.
Courses
ARC 605: Flexible Architecture
Instructor: Nick Bruscia | Type: Studio
Some composite materials are designed to return to their initial form after deformation by bending or stretching back into position. The studio will explore the scalability of flexible materials, and how we might organize them to produce stable but intentionally flexible architecture.
