An approach toward unification of architectural design and habitability based on network sensing
M. Clikano, Hideki Hashimoto, A. Watanabe · 2005
Recently, the mass customizations become a common idea for manufacturing products, and people seem like being able to get any products that they want. A house or a building is one of the last products to compromise with fulfilling the individual requirements. This paper describes our approach to realize a next generation living complex being able to align lifestyle changes of residents, or user requirements through lifetime periods of the complex. Establishing a platform structure unaffected by major technological changes is important to give a flexible and an upgradeable feature to a complex. Network sensing is a key idea to obtain information regarding human behaviors with appropriate reliability. Since there is no limitation of user-backgrounds in habitation environments, human interfaces are much more important than any other cases.