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The inter-disciplinary research book exemplifies upon a four year long research experiment to develop real-time interactive corporate office environments which addresses the behavioral patterns and preferences of its occupants with a strong underpinning in the domain of computation, interaction design and open system typologies. Rather than creating conventional inert structural shells (hard components), the development of a meta-system, or in other words creating a soft´ computationally enriched open systemic framework (informational) which interfaces with the hard´, material component and the users of the architectural construct formulates the core agenda of the research work. This soft space/meta system serves as a platform for providing the users with a democratic framework, within which they can manifest their own activity oriented programmatic, spatial and ambient alterations in order to create self designed and customized spatial alternatives. The otherwise static/inert hard architectural counterpart, enhanced with contemporary technology thus becomes a physical interface prone to real-time spatial/structural and ambient augmentation to optimally serve its users.

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Dr. Nimish Biloria is an Architect and an Assistant Professor at Hyperbody, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, The Netherlands and the co-director of Design Genesis, an Indo-Dutch design and research office. His research and design investigations aim at synergistically merging the domains of computational, interaction and architectural design.

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