Kent School of Architecture’s first open lecture of the academic year will be given by Dr Rupert Soar, and will be a presentation of his research. The lecture will take place on Tuesday 2nd October 2018 at 6pm in Marlowe Lecture Theatre 1.<\/p>\n
Rupert is reader in Construction Technologies at Nottingham Trent University, & Consultant through Freeform Construction and Engineering Ltd.\u00a0 Rupert works between field research with termites and application in \u2018digital construction\u2019 technologies.\u00a0 His special interest is how organisms integrate multiple functions within the same solution, because this could solve our own \u2018resource scarcity\u2019 issues.<\/p>\n
Within construction, Rupert\u2019s application work covers fa\u00e7ade solutions, based on how termites harvest insolation effects to drive turnover of air, how they regulate moisture levels to extraordinary levels to support the colony, how they harvest transient air flows to drive complex gas exchange methods and how they integrate many functions at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"