Information Materials Smart Materials for Adaptive Architecture /

• Main Author: Kretzer, Manuel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Materials science.; Buildings.; Technical education.; Building materials.; Structural materials.; Materials Science.; Structural Materials.; Building Types and Functions.; Building Construction and Design.; Building Materials.; Engineering/Technology Education.

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. Expanding upon approaches for flexible design solutio...

Table of Contents:

• Current Global Challenges, the Concept of Adaptive Architecture, and the Possibilities of Information Materials
• The Ever-Changing Nature of Materiality and the Meaning of Materials in Architecture and Construction
• Materiability - An Attempt for the Education of an Information Material Literacy in Respect to Emerging Materials
• A Selection of Emerging Information Materials, their Properties, Fabrication, and Application in Speculative Spatial Installations
• Towards a New Softness.