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Structuring Materiality: Design Fabrication of Heterogeneous Materials
Author(s) -
Oxman Neri
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1110
Subject(s) - materiality (auditing) , structuring , generative grammar , fabrication , computer science , process (computing) , material design , architectural engineering , engineering drawing , engineering , aesthetics , programming language , artificial intelligence , law , art , political science , world wide web , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
What happens when we invert the usual sequence of the design process ‐ form‐structure‐material ‐ so materiality becomes the generative driver? Taking nature as her model, Neri Oxman advocates a new material method, Variable Property Design (VPD), in which material assemblies are modelled, simulated and fabricated with varying properties in order to correspond with multiple and continuously shifting functional constraints. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.