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6/21/99 9:30:09 PM

Real Time Behaviour of Instrumental Bodies

First we need to develop the notion of the body. An architectural body with variable sections, smoothly transforming from one section to the other, from one function to the other. This leads us to a trans-functional architecture, where all specific functional parts are seamlessly integrated in the enveloping bodywork, immersed in the exterior and interior skin. Then we develop the idea of instrumental bodies. Bodies which can be played by their users as an instrument. Bodies that respond to the signals sent by the users who are touching knobs and switches, and are being measured by sensors. Instrumental bodies capture the information flow generated by their players. And finally the instrumental bodies start to display real time behaviour. They start to act in real time out of themselves. They feed on data, digest the information flow and generate new information content. Bodies with real time behaviour do not only respond to to external changing conditions, they are these changing conditions  themselves. Instrumental bodies with real time behaviour become unpredictable like the weather.