Responsive and Autonomous Material Interfaces (2011)
article⁄Responsive and Autonomous Material Interfaces (2011)
abstract⁄This paper presents continuing research on responsive systems in architecture the ability of architectural systems to change certain properties in response to their surrounding environmental pressures. While doing so, it shifts from current and past examples of mechanical approaches of adaptation, towards biological paradigms of seamless material integration. Looking at biological mechanisms of growth and focusing on the material makeup behind them, the research proposes the exploration of material systems in a twofold interrelated manner firstly, through passive material systems of variable elasticity, and secondly through the embedment of smart materials with shapechanging properties. The combination of the two is aiming at architectural systems of functional versatility.Through an interdisciplinary approach, the paper examines the following questions Is it possible to envisage structures that share the principles of adaptation and response of living organisms What are the technological challenges faced when designing selfactuated responsive interfaces Which is the conceptual framework for understanding and investigating complex adaptive and responsive systems By exploring and synthesizing theories and tools from material science, bioengineering and cybernetics the aim is to inform architectural interfaces able to enhance interconnectivity between the manmade and the natural. Focusing on the selforganization of material systems the intention is to suggest architectural interventions, which become subsystems of their ecological milieu. The emphasis therefore is placed not on architectural formalism, but on how we can define synthetic environments through constant exchanges of energy, matter and information.
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| Year |
2011 |
| Authors |
Doumpioti, Christina. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 11: Integration through Computation |
| Pages |
318-325 |
| Library link |
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| Entry filename |
responsive-autonomous-material-interfaces |
