Agility in Interior Architecture: An investigation through Prototypical Design for Interactive Spatial Dynamics

This paper identifies and discusses designing interior building dynamics that, through user interaction, can be physically manipulated and maneuvered to suit a changing situation in spatial requirements/preferences. Designers have partially realised this architectural vision through both mobile and dynamic interior elements, and relocatable construction systems. Here lies the potential for a digitally manufactured modular system for spatial dynamics, providing interactive interior architecture with embedded spatial fluidity. Providing occupants of these interior spaces with the capacity to determine the spatial conditions how and when they require. Leveraging modern digital fabrication techniques like CNC timber milling and consideration of factors such as assembly/disassembly, this thesis explores ideas of tactility and kinetics of interior space and how the user interactions can exact spatial change. This research develops a modular tectonic language, with low operational - mechanical and construction - complexity. A manipulatable interior tectonic such as this would be possible to complement existing structures or other fixed designed architectural elements to provide an enhanced level of building function through a immediately influenceable spatial conditions. The research undertaken explores a series of experimental modular prototypes, each a unique response for spatial dynamics.