Managing director of UNSense, Roger Tan, the arch tech company founded by UNStudio, looks at moving beyond smart buildings to cognitive buildings

1. Roger Tan, 17 July, 2018
UNSense Placetech Trendtalk

2. Mercedes
-Benz
Museum,
Stuttgart
Germany

3. Raffles
City,
Hangzhou
China

4. Built Environment Technology
innovations
UNSense designs sensorial experiences and develops innovative
products that improve the quality of life of people in buildings and
cities worldwide.

5. The world is changing

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The growth of cities
In 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas
Source: United Nations World Urbanization Prospects report 2014

7. We are all connected

8. 1.0 2.0 3.0

9. Society is in the iPhone age

10. Buildings are in the Walkman age

11. I see a great opportunity as an architect to create buildings and cities
that are sensible and sensitive to human beings.
The digital revolution is driving change in every part of our lives, except within the built
environment. Now it’s time to catch up with technology.

12. Our purpose: Improve the health and well-being of people in buildings
and cities worldwide

13. Our vision on buildings – and how to achieve this
using sensorial experience design

14. Our vision on buildings and technology

15. Beyond Smart buildings: Cognitive buildings

16. Buildings that truly understand the needs and intent of
people and adapt to support this

17. Sensing
Understanding
Supporting

18. Sensors: ubiquitous and cheap

19. Sensing and understanding: Computer Vision

20. 5G makes new kinds of connections possible,
wherever we are

21. Mixed Reality

22. Mixed Reality - Supporting

23. Voice interfaces

24. Dynamic Facades

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Everything is an interface, even clothing

26. Is this our future?

27. Design as key value

28. How do we get there?

29. It’s time to design positive, sensorial experiences for people

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What we value
People
People are at the center of everything we do.
Trust
Privacy and security by design to earn your
trust in our handling of data
Visionary
We value forward-looking thinking and
visionary ideas.
Design is the key to bringing experiences to
life
Design

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Building
Responsive
Building
Eni VI Palazzo, Milan, Italy
Adding a digital layer to our buildings

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Eni VI Palazzo, Italy
The VI Palazzo is envisioned as the tradition of its own history while
imagining the future. The research on new renewable energies are
at the center of the project. The integration of a smart grid enables
the building to input energy, improving the quality of life of both
workers and inhabitants of the surrounding neighbourhoods.

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Cities
Buildings Technology
UNSense as the link between buildings, cities and technology
We design sensorial experiences for people

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UNSense designs sensorial experiences and develops innovative
products on three scale levels
Building InteriorCity

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City
Smart Mobility
Amsterdam, Ring A10, The Netherlands

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Building
Dynamic Facade
Hanjie Wanda Square, China

39. Hanjie Wanda Square, China
The facade design for the luxury shopping plaza, in Wuhan City, focuses on achieving a dynamic effect. The architectural lighting is
integrated into the building envelope’s 42.333 spheres. Within each sphere LED-fixtures emit light onto the laminated glass to generate
glowing circular spots. Simultaneously a second set of LED’s at the rear side of the spheres create a diffuse illumination on the back panels.
A total of 3100000 LED lights where used to cover the 17894 sq.m. media facade. Various possibilities to combine and control these lights
allows diverse media lighting effects and programming of lighting sequences related to the use and activation of the Hanjie Wanda Square.

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Building
Energy
Harvesting
Facade
SolarVisuals panel

43. www.unsense.com - roger@unsense.com