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Pervasive sensing and interactive building controls stand to radically reshape the human response to architecture, the city, and even the air we breathe. Call them the new controls.

When you approach the pavilion, known as the DWP, a motion sensor in the roof detects your body and signals a processor in a digital control system to alter the solenoid valves at the individual jets of water that your body will displace as you walk through the curtain, just enough so you don’t get wet.

1. Preprogrammed patterns in the water are part of the pavilion’s advanced controls system.
2. Recycled water is pumped from underground cisterns to pipes and nozzles in the roof of the Digital Water Pavilion in Zaragoza, Spain.
3. Carlo Ratti, pictured, describes the pavilion as fluid, both literally and as a “reconfigurable, responsive building,” unlike static buildings designed to appear fluid.

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