Large scale dynamic systems

Classes of large scale dynamic systems were discussed in the context of modern control theory. Specific examples discussed were in the technical fields of aeronautics, water resources and electric power

Exploring Evolving Programs in Architecture: A Detailed Analysis and Design for Future Proofing Singapore’s Changi Airport.

Architecture and technology have a constrained relationship in part to their diverging principal-qualities (permanence vs speed, respectively). Buildings, while often designed with technical integration in mind, are rarely designed to take advantage of or to anticipate future trends or technologies. This misappropriation of technological progress in architecture materializes in form of retrofits, additions, and expansions – a chase in which architecture lags behind technology and its resulting and profound influence on culture and behavior. Architectural design and building programs may benefit from a deeper consideration and anticipation of evolving technological elements early in the design process. There may be no better building typology to understand past, present, and future design approaches than airports and their sequentially constructed terminals – true case studies of design thought and influences in contained and chronological configuration; snapshots of architectural and technological dependencies. This dissertation examines the past, current and proposed terminal designs at Singapore’s Changi Airport in order to understand the influences, technological contribution, and passenger experience goals throughout the terminal design process. The dissertation concludes with an alternative design to the currently proposed Terminal 5 design and aims to conceptually unify and prepare each current terminal for additional terminals as the airport expands

Улога инфраструктуре у детерминисању архитектонског склопа у XXI веку

Today, within the neo-liberal market of the 21st century, architecture became a tool of capital, demanding minimal investments with maximum spatial and environmental performances. Permanent social and economic changes that follow the rapid development of an information-based society imply a new take on the architectural composition, which became increasingly programmatically unstable and market-driven, especially within the mixed-use city centers. A need for programmatic flexibility and the possibility of transformations are driven by the necessity to answer the ever-increasing need for efficiency at all spatial levels from urban to building. As the infrastructure of a building considers all technological components that support the operation of its program, programmatic transformations should also be based on infrastructural tenets...Данас, у оквирима неолибералног тржишта 21. века, архитектура је постала инструмент капитала, захтевајући минималне инвестиције, а максималне просторне и енвајронменталне перформансе. Константне друштвено-економске промене које прате брзи развој информационог друштва иницирају нови приступ поимању архитектонског склопа, који вођен тржиштем постаје програмски нестабилана категорија - нарочито у зонама градских центара. Потреба за програмском флексибилношћу и могућности трансформације вођена је неопходношћу да се одговори на растуће захтеве за ефикасношћу на свим просторним нивоима: од урбаног - до нивоа самог објекта. Како инфраструктура архитектонског објекта подразумева све технолошке компоненте које подржавају његов програм, следи да ће и могуће програмске трансформације бити засноване на инфраструктурним принципима..