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Electr(on)ic palpitations: a visitors' pavilion for the Bieudron power plant, Switzerland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2010

Nuno Mateus Guerreiro ,
Carlos Infantes  and
Michael Jakob
Nuno Mateus Guerreiro
Affiliation:
14 Blades Court, Deodar Road, London, SW15 2NU, nuno.guerreiro@populous.com
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Extract

The electric power system has often been compared to a circulatory system, and telecommunication and informational complexes likened to nervous systems. Such characterisations are rigorous only for those aspects that bring the utility system closer to a living system: its mechanisms of control and regulation.

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design
Information
arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 29 - 39
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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