Material Synthesis: Fusing the Physical and the Computational (Paperback)

Editorial 05
Helen Castle

About the Guest-Editor 06
Achim Menges

Introduction Fusing the Computational and the Physical: Towards a Novel Material Culture 08
Achim Menges

The New Materiality: Towards a Novel Material Culture 16
Manuel DeLanda

The New Science of Form-Searching 22
Mario Carpo

The New Cyber-Physical Making in Architecture: Computational Construction 28
Achim Menges

Self-X materials and Structures in Nature and Technology: Bio-inspiration as a Driving Force for Technical Innocation 34
Thomas Speck, Jan Knippers and Olga Speck

Fibrous Tectonics 40
Achim Menges and Jan Knippers

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2012: Coreless Filament Winding Based on the Morphological Principles of an Arthropod Exoskeleton 48
Jan Knippers, Riccardo, La Magna, Achim Menges, Steffen Reichert, Tobias Schwinn,and  Frédéric Waimer

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2013–14: Modular Coreless Filament Winding Based on Beetle Elytra 54
Moritz Doerstelmann, Jan Knippers, Achim Menges, Stefana Parascho, Marshall Prado, and Tobias Schwinn

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2014–15: Fibre Placement on a Pneumatic Body Based on a Water Spider Web 60
Moritz Doerstelmann, Jan Knippers, Valentin Koslowski, Achim Menges, Marshall Prado, Gundula Schieber, Lauren Vasey

Performative Wood: Physically Programming the Responsive Architecture of the HygroScope and HygroSkin Projects 66
Achim Menges and Steffen Reichert

Structural Stone Surfaces: New Compression Shells Inspired by the Past 74
Philippe Block, Tom Van Mele and Matthias Rippmann

Membrane Morphologies: Heterogeneous Forces and Articulated Material Form 80
Sean Ahlquist

Granular Morphologies: Programming Material Behaviour with Designed Aggregates 86
Karola Dierichs and Achim Menges

Fabrication Agency: Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall 92
Tobias Schwinn and Achim Menges

Templating Design for Biology and Biology for Design 100
Neri Oxman

Hacking Science: The ALivE Group’s Material Design Methods for Interdisciplinary Enivornments 108
Martin Bechthold and Allen Sayegh

Computational Design and Automotive Material:Cross-disciplinary Design Research by the Mercedes-Benz Center of Advanced Design and the Institute for Computational Design (ICD), University of Stuttgart 114
Bastian Baudy, Steffen Koehl, Achim Menges and Steffen Reichert

Macrofabrication with Digital Materials: Robotic Assembly 122
Neil Gershenfeld, Matthew Carney, Benjamin Jenett, Sam Calisch and Spencer Wilson

Counterpoint Actualising (Overlooked) Material Capacities 128
Branko Kolarevic

Contributors 134