Dwellings in the Zoo use carbon nanotubes to create bedroom scopes for viewing the stars at night. The scope is situated above the pillow and extends above the clouds and pollution.As the room is made of programmable matter, which is discussed in this essay, it can be any substance.This lack of material identity is used to register a memory of place by having the program- mable matter configure around the movement of the body in space.The void, which is the space, is the result of all previous movements that one has performed within the room.
anything? This is one of the significant problems that nanotechnology has now introduced to architecture through the emergence of utility devices that self-assemble and programmable matter , a nanotechnology that can alter matter at the atomic level. It has been more than a decade since Dr. J. Storrs Hall of Rutgers University proposed the possibility of a utility fog which can change from this to that.The fog would consist of foglets , silicon micromachines that are the size of dust. Each foglet would have twelve arms that would be capable of joining hands in various configurations to form substances of any shape and density, and the foglets could be programmed to change. Some scientists believe this might be achieved in ten years if atomic friction forces can be overcome.We can already make micro-electro- mechanical systems (MEMS) from silicon, such as microscopic gears,
pumps, and motors. Zyvex Corporation in the United States specialises in the research and development of MEMS.
But let’s think smaller than MEMS, a thousand times smaller. In addition to building tiny, mechanistic machines, Nanoscientists are now working on designing atoms that change the very substance of matter. Each known atom has a unique number of electrons, protons, and neutrons (including zero). Platinum has one less electron than Gold, and Gold has one less electron than Mercury. Nanoscientists are now able to trap electrons, confining their movements in three dimensions within a structure that is known as a quantum dot . Dr. Paul L. McEuen has been working with forming quantum dots at the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell University.
left: The Transgenic Zoo includes a number of mixed develop-ments wherein humans live and work alongside animals in their habitats.This image shows a collection of nanomem- brane windsocks that filter pol - lutants out of the air by allowing only certain molecules to pass through.
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