Carlo Ratti Architecture that senses and responds 卡洛拉蒂：感知和反应的建筑.pdfVIP

Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds Good afternoon, everybody. Ive got something to show you. (Laughter) Think about this as a pixel, a flying pixel. This is what we call, in our lab, sensible design. Let me tell you a bit about it. Now if you take this picture -- Im Italian originally, and every boy in Italy grows up with this picture on the wall of his bedroom -- but the reason Im showing you this is that something very interesting happened in Formula 1 racing over the past couple of decades. Now some time ago, if you wanted to win a Formula 1 race, you take a budget, and you bet your budget on a good driver and a good car. And if the car and the driver were good enough, then youd win the race. Now today, if you want to win the race, act ually you need also something like this -- something that monitors the car in real time, has a few thousand sensors collecting information from the car, transmitting this information into the system, and then processing it and using it in order to go back to the car with decisions and changing things in real time as information is collected. This is what, in engineering terms, you would call a real time control system. And basically, its a system made of two components -- a sensing and an actuating component. What is interesting today is that real time control systems are starting to enter into our lives. Our cities, over the past few years, just have been blanketed with networks, electronics. Theyre becoming like computers in open air. And, as computers in open air, theyre starting to respond in a different way to be able to be sensed and to be actuated. If we fix cities, actually its a big deal. Just as an aside, I wanted to mention, cities are only two percent of the Earths crust, but they are 50 pe rcent of the worlds populatio