Naturally Animated Architecture: Using the Movements of the Sun, Wind, and Rain to Bring Indoor Spaces and Sustainable Practices to Life

Explore how the natural movements of the sun, wind, and rain can be used to improve the well-being of people in buildings and raise awareness of sustainable living practices. In demonstrating how buildings can be designed to reconcile their traditional role as shelter from the elements with the active inclusion of their movement, Prof.  Kevin Nute shows how, in the process of separating us from the extremes of the natural world, architecture can also be a means of reconnecting us with nature.

About the Presenter:

Kevin Nute is a British American architectural theorist and professor of architecture at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa. He trained at the universities of Cambridge and Nottingham, worked in practice in London, Hong Kong and Singapore, and spent much of his early career in Japan at the University of Tokyo and Muroran Institute of Technology. His work examines how built environments can be designed to reflect the parameters of existence; the human/nature interface; and the transfer of ideas between cultures.