Smart Materials Exploration In Architectural Practice
DIGITAL MATTER: INTELLIGENT CONSTRUCTIONS
The key to 21st century challenges generated by global urbanization, economic instability and environmental crisis will be the development of products with increasing levels of efficiency. Active bio-materials will play a critical role in this development, forcing architects to get free from computing devices and integrate into their designs the functions that smart materials present already on a molecular scale.
In the framework of the Digital Matter Intelligent Constructions studio, students are developing case studies exploring construction systems to be applied at architectural scale, producing non-rigid, responsive and multi-functional materials and construction systems.
The method of investigation they are using follows an experimental approach and progress from small scale material sampling to the production of 1:1 scale architectural components and prototypes. Their projects implement active materials, information, digital content and fabrication foreseeing an engineered architectural future of intelligent responsiveness and adaptation.
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In the framework of the Digital Matter Intelligent Constructions studio, students are developing case studies exploring construction systems to be applied at architectural scale, producing non-rigid, responsive and multi-functional materials and construction systems.
The method of investigation they are using follows an experimental approach and progress from small scale material sampling to the production of 1:1 scale architectural components and prototypes. Their projects implement active materials, information, digital content and fabrication foreseeing an engineered architectural future of intelligent responsiveness and adaptation.
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