Information Materials Smart Materials for Adaptive Architecture
This book considers the potential of new, smart materials and their use in architecture. It begins with an overview of current global tendencies (technological, demographic, and socio-anthropological) and their relevance for architectural design. Expandin
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Information Materials Smart Materials for Adaptive Architecture
Information Materials
Manuel Kretzer
Information Materials Smart Materials for Adaptive Architecture
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Manuel Kretzer Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) Institute of Technology in Architecture Zurich Switzerland
ISBN 978-3-319-35148-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-35150-6
ISBN 978-3-319-35150-6
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Foreword
Information Materials: Resonant, Potent Architecture What kind of cities could result if we used the hybrid materials and new building systems described within Information Materials? The renewed ‘softness’ that Manuel Kretzer describes within this book evokes surfaces and structures of buildings within a city that follow densely layered forms of diffusive, deeply interwoven materials expanding and contracting, interacting with their surroundings. These building materials can be conceived as filters acting in oscillations: catching, harvesting, pulling, both expanding human influence and in turn expanding the impact of the world on us. Networks organized in loops and reflexes build up a deeply layered, deeply fissured set of relationships in which there are multiple sensitive boundaries. A new city designed to easily handle unstable conditions of cooling and heating in rapid cycles of shedding heat and warming and collecting heat again might look like a hybrid forest where each building is made from dense layers of ivy-like filters and multiple overlapping levels of porous openings. Like reticulated snowflakes or the microscopic manifolds of mitochondria, intense reticulation could form increased surface areas that make their reaction-surfaces potent. Paths to industrial application and
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