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Granular Morphologies: Programming Material Behaviour with Designed Aggregates
What if designers were to become more than specifiers of materials, and actually defined the composition of the matter they work with? Granular materials, or rather ‘designed aggregates’, as introduced here by Karola Dierichs, architect and researcher at the Institute for Computational Design (ICD), and Guest‐Editor Achim Menges, are one distinct group of materials that can be considered ‘designed matter’. What makes designed granular systems particularly interesting is that they do not obtain a final structure with preset properties. Instead, their elemental constituents remain unfixed, allowing them to continuously and physically recompute structural and spatial characteristics, challenging our very conception of design.
Granular Morphologies: Programming Material Behaviour with Designed Aggregates
What if designers were to become more than specifiers of materials, and actually defined the composition of the matter they work with? Granular materials, or rather ‘designed aggregates’, as introduced here by Karola Dierichs, architect and researcher at the Institute for Computational Design (ICD), and Guest‐Editor Achim Menges, are one distinct group of materials that can be considered ‘designed matter’. What makes designed granular systems particularly interesting is that they do not obtain a final structure with preset properties. Instead, their elemental constituents remain unfixed, allowing them to continuously and physically recompute structural and spatial characteristics, challenging our very conception of design.
Granular Morphologies: Programming Material Behaviour with Designed Aggregates
Dierichs, Karola (author) / Menges, Achim (author)
Architectural Design ; 85 ; 86-91
2015-09-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
granular physics , Annette Scheider , Robert Behringer , Institute of Engineering Geodesy (IIGS) , Desislava Angelova , Graded Light project , Karola Dierichs , North Carolina , Sacha Emam , ‘designed matter’ , Institute for Computational Design (ICD) , liquid to solid states , ITASCA Consulting Group , Behringer Group , Matthew Purvance , David Correa , Aggregate Architectures research project , distinct element method (DEM) , Duke University , Reza Taghavi , University of Stuttgart
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