INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS, INTEGRATING DESIGN

Abstract

According to the apt wording of a university lecture on the future of architecture [1]: `The growing focus on the issues of sustainable architecture may be evaluated as a paradigm change of building science, which reflects the changes in social priorities.´ The following article takes on to expound some important elements of this phenomenon, discussing: 1. the effects that form of energy, form of society and building activity impose on one another, 2. the change in the energy approach, 3. the definition of architecture-related intelligence, 4. the connection between ecology and high-tech, 5. the characteristics of integrating design and 6. the relationship between the building and its users.