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This book is a collection of articles that have been published in the Special Issue “Responsive Architecture” of the MDPI journal Buildings. The eleven articles within cover various areas of sensitive architecture, including the design of packaging structures reacting to supporting components; structural efficiency of bent columns in indigenous houses; roof forms responsive to buildings depending on their resiliently transformed steel shell parts; creative design of building free shapes covered with transformed shells; artistic structural concepts of the architect and civil engineer; digitally designed airport terminal using wind analysis; rationalized shaping of sensitive curvilinear steel construction; interactive stories of responsive architecture; transformed shell roof constructions as the main determinant in the creative shaping of buildings without shapes that are sensitive to man-made and natural environments; thermally sensitive performances of a special shielding envelope on balconies; quantification of generality and adaptability of building layout using the SAGA method; and influence of initial conditions on the simulation of the transient temperature field inside a wall.

spanish balcony --- form-finding --- agent-based theory --- strength --- carrier component structures --- digital tools --- shape transformation --- Karamba 3D --- free-form building --- folded sheet --- performance-oriented design --- spatial analysis --- moveable facade components --- space plan --- building free-form structure --- situatedness --- heat flow --- interactive architecture --- steel construction --- thermal conditions --- responsive architecture --- kinetic envelope --- architectural form --- thermal performances --- Grasshopper --- algorithmic-aided shaping --- adaptive envelope --- initial conditions --- adaptability --- parametric design --- digital fabrication --- shadows --- thin-walled open profile --- steel bar structures --- network analysis --- outdoor test cells --- interaction narrative --- CFD --- sensor interaction --- wind analysis --- vernacular houses --- corrugated shell roof --- bent piles --- building free form structure --- boundary conditions for simulation --- thin-walled profile --- structural systems --- Ammatoan houses --- flexibility --- structural analysis --- numerical analysis --- experimental measurement --- adaptive design --- integrated architectural form --- evaluation tool --- effectivity --- building structure --- parametric architecture --- user experience --- justified plan graphs --- generality --- Space Syntax --- architectural morphology --- simulation and computational design studies