What Is an Intelligent Building?

The word intelligent to talk about a city, building and so on, is overused today that one carefully avoids delimiting its contours. We admit the existence of varied variable intelligences based on our knowledge, requirements, necessities. Among living beings confronted with environment, some have more efficient form intelligence than others. refer three concepts as developed by Gilbert Simondon: associated milieu (2005a, 2005b); concretization (1958); mecanologiques generations (2005a); invention (2008). After very short analysis today’s French Thermic Regulation we note difficulties exceed question standards, be able go beyond addition technical devices respond question. To further need abandon concept environment rethink whole complex systemic problem using milieu. presentation different objects (Lafitte in Reflexions sur la science des machines. Paris, 1932) helps us locate main challenge. reasoning from milieu, enables reach apparatus obtain solutions gathering several co-actors interacting same network: external inner (stricto sensus building), apparatus, inhabitants, sharing information.