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Granular Construction: Designed Particles for Macro‐Scale Architectural Structures
Author(s) -
Dierichs Karola,
Menges Achim
Publication year - 2017
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.2200
Subject(s) - macro , range (aeronautics) , field (mathematics) , systems engineering , computer science , scale (ratio) , architectural engineering , nanotechnology , engineering , mechanical engineering , aerospace engineering , materials science , physics , programming language , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
Designing the individual particles of granular materials defines novel material characteristics of the overall granular system. This opens up a range of possibilities for architectural applications that are fully reconfigurable as the particles are not bound to each other. Karola Dierichs and Achim Menges of the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) at the University of Stuttgart provide an overview of recent research conducted at the Institute in this field. Autonomous construction is integrated into these systems through using either extrinsic autonomous machines or intrinsic autonomous particles.