Abstract:
Throughout history architects as well as engineers have sought to find solutions to the humanities problems through the built environment. All professions have or will influence architecture in some way either directly or through the very nature of one's own profession itself. To consolidate all the information from all different professions and peoples for whatever any given project requires and combine that information with their own expertise's be that artistic, efficiency, both, or everything in between. Keeping this in mind a dialog between the magnetic sciences and architecture does not exist for these new and experimental technologies. This book seeks to lay the ground work for a guideline for an architect's interaction with Electromagnetic systems in the built environment.
Description:
The subject that this book will focus on, magnetic and electromagnetic repulsion systems, is expensive and complex. Although the past few decades have seen a steep decrease in the prices in marital and efficiency of production, the procedures involved are still far too complicated and expensive for everyday use in the common realm. Technologies discussed in this book will be through the lens of the future where it is assumed magnetic materials, production, and power are less expensive and are worth investing in. A structure even in the future using this magnetic levitation technology might still be considered a novelty or only to be used in certain circumstances. It is those very circumstances that this book will look at and evaluate the various uses of electromagnetic levitation in architecture. By creating several design charrettes at different scales and using magnetic technology in diverse ways for each typology and scale, we can look at how it can affect building occupation and the limits of what this technology can do. These theoretical uses are akin to Etienne-Louis Boullée’s conceptual Cenotaph for Newton (i1) or Super-studio’s Continuous Monument series (i2), which pushed materiality at the time to and even past its known limits in their designs and past the boundaries of economic feasibility.
