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An innovative approach at the world of material performances, operations, and strategies in architectural design
The approach of "Informing Architecture by Materiality" opens the way to an innovative use of materials in the design professions. Taking material qualities and properties such as texture, elasticity, transparency and fluidity as a point of departure, the concept described and employed here transcends the conventional definitions of building materials. Instead, the focus is on a multitude of material operations, like folding and bending, carving and cutting, weaving and knitting, mirroring and screening.
The featured design strategies and methods address established and "new" materials alike. They are applied both to the scale of the detail and the entire building. The examples comprise prototype structures as well as large building projects.
Eight chapters deal with surfaces and layers, joints and juctions, weaving and texturing, nanoscale transformations, responsiveness, the integration of ephemeral factors like wind and light as well as material collections providing professional resources. Written by renowned experts in this field, the book features many examples from international contemporary architecture.
The introductory part provides the conceptual background, while a final chapter describes consequences for pressing issues of today, like sustainability or life cycle assessment.
Why Material Design? Foreword by Erwin Viray
The Alternative Approach: Observation, Speculation, Experimentation
The Material-Design Connection
Material Studies in Practice
New Materials: The Architect's Role
Quality, Craft, and Culture in Material Design
Technology, Representation, Communication
Inherent Expression: A Greater Understanding of Materials' Potential for Expression
Scale-less Design and Material Processes
Notes
Difficult Synthesis
Introduction: Language and Surplus
A Discipline in Search of a Medium
Beyond Paper: Reclaiming Material Agency
Inputs, Constraints, and Intents
Digital Research
The Acrobatics of the Cover-Up
Performance and Its Predicaments
Difficult Synthesis
Notes
Aggregation
Tectonics
The Architectural Figure Configured: Part-to-Whole Relations
Patterning and the Problem of the Corner
Two- and Three-dimensional Patterns
Conclusion
Joints and Junctions
The Role of Detailing in the Act of Architecture
Fabric and Figure in Architectural Joinery
American and Japanese Joinery: Conditions of Complexity
Constraints of Description: Utzon and Gehry
Notes
Weaving: The Tectonics of Textiles
The Process of Weaving
A New Conception of Surface
Innovations and Applications in Engineered Textiles
Technology Transfer: Boat Hulls to Architecture
Notes
Modulation: Transformation by Shaping and Texturing
Modulating Modulation
Modulating the Shaped
Modulating the Shapeless
From Technique to Architecture
Notes
Capturing the Ephemeral
Volumetric Light
Latency
Expanding the Boundary Between Inside and Outside
Transparency, Reflection, and Refraction
Responsive Planes
Reconnecting to Natural Events
Responsive Materials
New Materials, New Models of Practice
Hybrid Materials
Design in the Fourth Dimension
The Power of the Many
Responsive Systems: Potentials for New Environmental Practices
Pushing the Envelope
Interactive Environmental Media: Emerging Design Strategies
Notes
Materializations of Nanotechnology in Architecture
Four Approaches to Nanotechnology in Design Innovation
By Mimesis
By Application
By Experimentation
By Speculation
Notes
Encoding: Digital & Analogue Taxonavigation
Newness
Genre: Unclassifiable
Material Collections
Analogue
Digital
1 : 1
Notes
The Future of Material Design
Material Technologies
Design Methods
The Problem-Solving Approach: Pitfalls and Challenges
Notes
Appendix
On the Author and the Contributors
Index of Names
Subject Index
Illustration Credits
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