Smart Materials in Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design

✍ Scribed by Axel Ritter

• Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 191
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Smart materials are architectural innovations that merge research, development, and function. With their reversible characteristics and amazing ability to respond to stimuli such as light and temperature, they have become a popular resource for architects. One of the most fascinating developments is the advent of Phase Change Materials. These materials make it possible, for example, to develop self-acting, kinetic facades and wallpaper that changes its color and pattern based on temperature, light, or touch. Smart Materials presents the development of these materials and describes their use in the contexts of architecture, design, and art. It offers a systematic overview with a detailed discussion of properties, technologies, products, and projects.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Trends and Developments......Page 10
Innovative Materials and Products......Page 26
Smart Materials: Materials, Products, Projects......Page 43
Property-Changing Smart Materials......Page 45
Shape-Changing Smart Materials......Page 46
Colour and Optically Changing Smart Materials......Page 72
Adhesion-Changing Smart Materials......Page 98
Energy-Exchanging Smart Materials......Page 109
Light-Emitting Smart Materials......Page 110
Electricity-Generating Smart Materials......Page 142
Energy-Exchanging Smart Materials......Page 164
Matter-Exchanging Smart Materials......Page 174
Sources......Page 188