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Aggregate Structures: Material and Machine Computation of Designed Granular Substances
In inanimate nature, large masses of granular substances are in constant processes of formation through perpetual cycles of erosion and accretion. What if architecture was to emulate this behaviour and allow for its own continuous reconfiguration? Karola Dierichs and Achim Menges establish the notion of an ‘aggregate architecture’. Composed of large numbers of unbound yet designed granules, aggregates are based on a fundamentally different logic of construction. In contrast to assembly systems, aggregates materially compute their overall constructional configuration and shape as spatiotemporal behavioural patterns, with an equal ability for both: the stable character of a solid material and the rapid reconfigurability of a fluid. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Aggregate Structures: Material and Machine Computation of Designed Granular Substances
In inanimate nature, large masses of granular substances are in constant processes of formation through perpetual cycles of erosion and accretion. What if architecture was to emulate this behaviour and allow for its own continuous reconfiguration? Karola Dierichs and Achim Menges establish the notion of an ‘aggregate architecture’. Composed of large numbers of unbound yet designed granules, aggregates are based on a fundamentally different logic of construction. In contrast to assembly systems, aggregates materially compute their overall constructional configuration and shape as spatiotemporal behavioural patterns, with an equal ability for both: the stable character of a solid material and the rapid reconfigurability of a fluid. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Aggregate Structures: Material and Machine Computation of Designed Granular Substances
Dierichs, Karola (author) / Menges, Achim (author)
Architectural Design ; 82 ; 74-81
2012-03-01
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Karola Dierichs, Aggregate Architectures, Institute for Computational Design (ICD), University of Stuttgart , Anette Scheider, Institute of Engineering Geodesy (IIGS) , machine computation , event‐driven molecular dynamics (ED) , non‐Newtonian liquids , sand , discrete element method (DEM) , Discrete simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) , interacting , molecular dynamics (MD) , Snow Crystals, Electron and Confocal Microscopy Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland , friction , photoelastic materials , Gerard de Josselin de Jong and Arnold Verruijt, Peter A Cundall and Otto D L Strack, Discrete Element Modelling, Delft/London‐Minneapolis , six‐axis robot , Florian Fleissner , pouring processes , Jie Ren and Joshua Dijksman, Granular Force Network, Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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