First Post: Introduction

     My name is Kunlun Ren. I am from China and I am a Ph.D. student in architectural engineering, second year here. I graduated from IIT, Chicago, with MArch degree. My advisor now is Dr. Simi Hoque. My interests include evidence-based design, green building technology, vernacular architecture design, etc.. Currently, I am doing a project on the impact of indoor environment conditions on patients health in CHOP. The main reason I take this course is to learn how to use Revit which will also be used as a tool for data storage and visual display in my project.

     The most interesting note I found in Evernote is a piece of news about Foster + Partners added a skybridge for the design of headquarters for DJI. The most exciting point is not about the building itself, but the ambitions of DJI and a conceivable future where building built by drones are also operated and connected by drones. Not only the building can be intelligent, but the whole city can also be intelligent with the help of AI, robots, drones, etc..

Figure 1. A future city vision. 

(Baig, Z. A., Szewczyk, P., Valli, C., Rabadia, P., Hannay, P., Chernyshev, M., . . . Peacock, M. (2017). Future challenges for smart cities: Cyber-security and digital forensics. Digital Investigation,22, 3-13. doi:10.1016/j.diin.2017.06.015)

     From my point of view, the intelligent building should be defined by the whole life of a building from the proposal stage to demolishment. The site of the intelligent building can be chosen based on AI processed data; The design decisions can be made by architects with the help of AI; The building operation can be controlled by robots adaptively, etc.. In brief, the intelligent building is the building that is optimized in a system to face the best needs of occupants and any other people related.