Informed non-standard: En route to performative

Abstract

Twelve years after the 'Architectures Non Standard' exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Søren S Sørensen, architect and Director of the Advanced Computational Design Laboratory (ACDL) at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), argues for a repositioning of the Non-Standard approach. He advocates a performance-orientated method for architecture that can accommodate the evaluation of real-time data sets and environmental simulation techniques in order to assimilate context-specific and climatic conditions, like temperature, wind and humidity, in the design process.