AD 216 MATERIAL COMPUTATION

Description

The production of architecture, both intellectually and physically, is on the brink of a fundamental change. Computational design enables architects to integrate ever more multifaceted and complex design information, while the industrial logics of conventional building construction are eroding rapidly in a context of increasingly ubiquitous computer-controlled manufacturing and fabrication. A novel convergence of computation and materialisation is about to emerge, bringing the virtual process of design and the physical realisation of architecture much closer together, more so than ever before. Computation provides a powerful agency for both informing the design process through specific material behaviour and characteristics, and in turn informing the organisation of matter and material across multiple scales based on feedback from the environment. Computational design and integrated materialisation processes allow for uncovering the inherent morphogenetic potential of materials and thus are opening up a largely uncharted field of possibilities for the way the built environment in the 21st century is conceived and produced. In order to effectively introduce and outline the enabling power of computational design along with its inherent relationship to a biological paradigm, this publication looks at formation and materialisation in nature, integrative computational design, and engineering and manufacturing integration.

CONTENTS

• Achim Menges: Material Computation: Higher Integration in Morphogenetic Design
• Philip Ball: Pattern Formation in Nature: Physical Constraints and Self-Organising Characteristics
• J Scott Turner: Evolutionary Architecture: Some Perspectives From Biological Design
• Achim Menges: Material Resourcefulness: Activating Material Information in Computational Design
• Moritz Fleischmann, Jan Knippers, Julian Lienhard, Aschim Menges and Simon Schleicher: Material Behaviour: Embedding Physical Properties in Computational Design Processes
• Achim Menges and Steffen Reichert: Material Capacity: Embedded Responsiveness
• Sean Ahlquist and Achim Menges: Physical Drivers: Synthesis of Evolutionary Developments and Force-Driven Design
• Skylar Tibbits: Design to Self-Assembly
• Karola Dierichs and Achim Menges: Aggregate Structures: Material and Machine Comutation of Designed Granular Substances
• Ferdinand Ludwig, Hannes Schwertfeger and Oliver Storz: Living Systems: Designing Growth in Baubotanik
• Neri Oxman: Programming Matter
• Cristiano Ceccato: Material Articulation: Computing and Constructing Continuous Differentiation
• Toni Kotnik and Michael Weinstock: Material, Form and Force
• Al Fisher: Engineering Integration: Real-Time Approaches to Performative Computational Design
• Achim Menges and Tobias Schwinn: Manufacturing Reciprocities
• Rubert Soar and David Andreen: The Role of Additive Manufaturing and Physiometric Computational Design for Digital Construction
• Bob Sheil: Distinguishing Between the Drawn and the Made

144 pages, color ills / 21 x 27,5 cm / English