Material synthesis fusing the physical and the computational

A new understanding of the material in architecture is fast emerging. Designers are no longer conceiving of the digital realm as separate from the physical world. Instead computation is being regarded as the key interface for material exploration and vice versa. This represents a significant percept...

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Other Authors: guest-edited by Achim Menges
Language:Undetermined
English
Published: London, England John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2015
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Summary:A new understanding of the material in architecture is fast emerging. Designers are no longer conceiving of the digital realm as separate from the physical world. Instead computation is being regarded as the key interface for material exploration and vice versa. This represents a significant perceptual shift in which the materiality of architecture is no longer seen to be a fixed property and passive receptor of form, but is transformed into an active generator of design and an adaptive agent of architectural performance. In stark contrast to previous linear and mechanistic modes of fabrication and construction, materialisation is now beginning to coexist with design as explorative robotic processes. This represents a radical departure from both the trite modernist emphasis on 'truth to materials' and the dismissal of materials by the previous generation of digital architects
Physical Description:136 p.
ill.
29 cm
ISBN:111887837X
9781118878378