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Loose-Fit Architecture
Loose-Fit Architecture: Designing Buildings for Change September/October 2017 Profile 249 Volume 87 No 5 ISBN 978 1119 152644 Guest-Edited by Alex Lifschutz The idea that a building is 'finished' or 'complete' on the day it opens its doors is hardwired into existing thinking about design, planning and construction. But this ignores the unprecedented rate of social and technological change. A building only begins its life when the contractors leave. With resources at a premium and a greater need for a sustainable use of building materials, can we still afford to construct new housing or indeed any buildings that ignore the need for flexibility or the ability to evolve over time? Our design cu...
Ancestry of John L. Woods
John Lucius Woods (b.1912) is the son of George Benjamin Woods (1878- 1958) and Helen Smith (1881-1956) of Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio. He is the descendant of James Woods (1767-1869) the emigrant, who was born at St. James Park, London, England and settled in Darke Co., Ohio and his wife, Rebecca Peden (1780-1855), the daughter of Obadiah Peden and Esther Dunn of York Co., PA. He married Mary Torkilson in 1938 at Evanston, Ill. Thirteen generations of ancestors are traced.
Autonomous Assembly
We are now on the brink of a new era in construction – that of autonomous assembly. For some time, the widespread adoption of robotic and digital fabrication technologies has made it possible for architects and academic researchers to design non-standard, highly customised structures. These technologies have largely been limited by scalability, focusing mainly on top-down, bespoke fabrication projects, such as experimental pavilions and structures. Autonomous assembly and bottom-up construction techniques hold the promise of greater scalability, adaptability and potentially evolved design possibilities. By capitalising on the advances made in swarm robotics, the collective construction of ...
